What if religious leaders gathered around a table and became totally honest about our failures and confessed the risks we took that backfired? Would that create a more accountable, more experimental leadership environment…or would we just hide?
While it’s possible to make a case against gay marriage that does not rely on fear or loathing of gay people, but Andrew Brown says homophobia has made the current case untenable.
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
Lots of commentary on Chick-fil-A from all over the country. Here are some of the opinions and points being made: 1) Bringing politics into unrelated
Bishop Stacy Sauls, Chief Operating Officer of the Episcopal Church, wrote to the Wall Street Journal in response to an op-ed that appeared in that paper called “What Ails the Episcopalians.
The Rev. Jesús Reyes, Canon for Congregational Growth & Development in the Diocese of El Camino Real reflects the questions raised this weekend by Ross Douthat, saying “Yes! Liberal Christianity…and many forms of Christianity…can be saved!”
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
How a rigid Vicar drove one woman out of her parish on the day of her wedding and into a spiritual life that avoids the Church.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, professor of the history of the church at Oxford University, says that noisy Christianity has long resisted silence.