The Archive
Tag: Faith and Culture
Struggling with work-life balance
The Alban Institute has an article by David Edman Gray on our seemingly never ending struggle to balance “work” and “life”:
Continuing dialogue on privilege and diversity
The Center for Courage and Renewal, founded by Parker J. Palmer, includes this in the “about” section of its website:
The disturbing reach of “hate rock”
The recent shooting in the Sikh temple in Wisconsin has focused the media on a genre of American music that promotes hate and violence. Matt
Giving thanks for the Olympic opening ceremonies
The Olympic Games opening ceremonies celebrated workers’ rights and the dignity of human labor in a deeply spiritual way according to a report from
Five ways the church failed
Matthew Paul Turner blogs that the church failed in five ways when so many Christians showed up at their local Chick-fil-A on Wednesday.
New National Cathedral dean: We are a ‘pragmatic, evolving tradition’
The newly selected dean of Washington National Cathedral, the Rev. Canon Gary Hall, believes that mainline churches face “a crisis of credibility.” He writes in
Communion on the moon
There is perhaps nothing more human than the curiosity that compels exploration. But paired with that curiosity is a search for meaning — we don’t want to know just what is out there, we want to turn it into something with a story, something with sense. We turn to the gods for that meaning, and we turn to them for our safety as we go.
A thank you (and rebuttal) to Ross Douthat
The Rev. John Ohmer, rector of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va., respectfully and deftly takes issue with key assertions made in Ross Douthat’s