Episcopal priest Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio supports the striking down of part of Utah’s polygamy law, in a suit brought by the family of the reality
The Rev. Sue Wintz, a Board Certified Chaplain, says that grieving through the holiday season can be heard for any person mourning the death of a loved one but there experience is different for those for whom the loss is new and for those who have been bereaved for some time.
The Rev. Lester V. Mackenzie, a native South African, has written a lovely meditation on Nelson Mandela for the House of Deputies site. Mackenzie, a
“Was he a saint? Not if a saint is entirely flawless.”
Sally Steenland, in American Progress, begins by stating the consequences of the Religious Right’s grip on public perception of Christianity:
Some people are apparently a little weary of all the remembering going on today. Which is strange coming from a tradition built on anamnesis.
Colin Woodward, writing in Tufts Magazine, says that there’s never been “an America,” but rather eleven Americas—each a distinct nation–each viewing violence, as well as everything else, in its own way.
…every time All Saints Day rolls around, I can’t help but think of how the saints were spoken about, and used, in the pragmatic, popular faith of my Roman Catholic childhood. In that setting, saints were a lot like apps: mobile, easy-to-use, and applicable to all sorts of everyday situations.
Greg Kaufmann in The Nation, in preparation for Friday when “48 million people—including more than 21 million children—will see their food stamp (SNAP) benefits reduced”,
… the older I get… – the more I feel that my faith is not primarily a personal thing but a way of sharing the common lot with everybody else.