Tag: Faith and terror

Prayers ascend in the wake of the mass shooting at a multi-plex in Aurora, Colorado early this morning.

Today’s news reports that the Boy Scouts and the chicken sandwich purveyor Chick-Fil-A confirm their anti-gay stances.

BREAKING: The 3:39-minute video clip obtained exclusively by The Associated Press depicts Jesse Mactagone of Auburn, Calif., at St. John’s Military School wobbling and pleading for help as an instructor tries to make him stand. Both of the boy’s legs were broken during the four days in August 2011 that he attended the school, and he was hospitalized before being flown home. He no longer attends the school.

Derek Olsen, frequent contributor to Daily Episcopalian, writes in the

The Rt. Rev. Eugene Sutton writes on forgiveness in

Local churches work together to build up the community and witness to the power of the Holy Spirit following the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Those words shocked and hurt us. They felt like nails hammered into our bodies and the truth of our reality, as though we Palestinians are living a lie — only imagining things, and if we only eat, talk, and share our stories, everything will be alright. For twenty years now, that is exactly what we have been doing – eating, drinking, telling each other our stories, not to mention hugging and embracing, meanwhile Israel was feasting on our land.

The bishops have come together collectively. I can’t give you the names, but there’s a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don’t need altar boys. ~Donohue

“We believe that (sexual abuse) has occurred,” Smith said about the abuse allegations and the results of the internal investigation.

To anyone who asks the question, “Where was God?” the answer is everywhere in Chardon.