We’ve never broken 400,000 page views in a month before, so permit us a moment of celebration.
Wheeee! Oh, yeah, our Facebook group just hit the 500 mark. Okay, back to work.
We promise not to go all PBS on you and raise money ’round the clock, but it is the fund raising season, and we ask your support of our work here at the Café. Please make an online contribution here.
Mike Croghan, the Rude Armchair Theologian, examines a day in the life of The Lead (yesterday as it happens) and asks some pertinent quesitons about
We are celebrating our first anniversary today. We actually began operations in this incarnation on April 19, but we’ve decided that today is easier to remember, and probably represented the first day we had most of the bugs worked out. We’d like to thank everyone who has made us a part of their day, and to ask for your support, if you think we’ve earned it.
Some time along about noon yesterday, the Episcopal Café received its one millionth visit since opening for business in late April, 2007. Just a day earlier, we reached 2.5 million “page views.” Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who visits the site, especially those of you who drop by daily to keep up with the news, appreciate the art and perhaps spend a little time in meditation.
If you could see your way clear to making a year-end contribution to the Episcopal Café, we’d appreciate it. To donate online, visit the Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s Bishop’s Appeal.
“‘At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. … We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'”
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Do you remember the first time you ever addressed a group of people, whether it was your first sermon or your first public speaking class or your first time lay reading? It’s sort of like that, at least as I experienced it. Signing my name to a post about faith created anxious tension. Even though I wasn’t hiding my identity per se, it scared me.
If you are new to the Episcopal Café and have dropped in to read about the House of Bishops meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury