Our Deputies in General Convention, our bishops, all are, but they never stand in Christ’s stead. We have no vicar of Christ. No one stands in Christ’s place. Rather as our priests present to us, each of us as creatures of God’s singing, as members of Christ’s own Body redeemed point to and profess and proclaim and bless our one Lord in all things.
The real sin of Sodom was radical inhospitality.
You owe it to yourself to read this quick story of a horse caught up in a moment of rebirth.
Canon Giles Frazier was deeply moved by Bishop Pierre Whalon’s account of his recent visit to Haiti on behalf of the Episcopal Church. Canon Frazier used a detail of the eyewitness account as the jumping off point for a meditation of the work of Christ during the most Holy Sabbath of the Triduum, and the need for new understandings of the Atonement.
In working to correct an imbalance, it seems that now we want little to do with a pained and suffering God; with a God who nurses, shits, and bleeds; with a God who identifies with flesh, blood, and bone definitively. The Nativity, the Incarnation, is reduced to sweet manger scenes and gifts of sweets. The cross is an after thought to the joys of Easter
Sin is deliberately turning one’s back on what God has done for us in salvation history. It is not just a matter of pride and raising ourselves up too high, but it is also a matter of excess shame and hiding our true selves from others.
Their discussion of genetics . . . shows a complete failure to understand basic principles–what it means to say something is innate, and the fallacy of a single gene theory
It’s time to “read, mark, and comment upon” the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops’ report titled, “Same-Sex Relationships in the Life of the Church”
The Washington Post’s “On Faith” asks: “What is your vision of heaven? What images – from Scripture, tradition, culture or your personal experience – best describe heaven for you?”
…it’s not a matter of acquiescing to a more inclusive future for the sake of those who have been on the outside. It is rather a matter of embracing opportunities that give us all a future as a community – a community of mystery and reason, of determined commitment and unconditional love.