Ohio bishops speak out for health care
The bishops of the Episcopal dioceses in Ohio have written a
The bishops of the Episcopal dioceses in Ohio have written a
Diana Butler Bass writing in the
Cornel West and Charles Pierce have had a lot to say as Barack Obama is installed for his second term. There is joy in some
The Rev. Luis Leon, rector of St John’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC, who came to the US as a refugee from Guantanamo, Cuba, gives the
…hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together
President Obama will worship today at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Later today he will be sworn in a private televised ceremony. (Update: Monday he
So my sense is that the task now isn’t so much to speak to the middle but to, in fact, help create a middle where there it’s so much easier for us to stay in our isolated areas with people who think like us, and the president’s task and the tasks of communities of faith is, in fact, to create that common ground where we can find the compromises that we need to make to go forward.
As the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, I support the bill before the General Assembly that would allow same-sex couples to marry in our state, not in spite of my Christian faith, but because of it.
(President Obama has since unveiled his gun-control proposals, via The Washington Post)