“Not everything in the world around us, whether it might be in the family or in the church, helps us to feel that,” “We must keep doing it for each other.”
He had been ordained as a Deacon in Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church the previous Wednesday evening. Ordained for less than a week, all knew that his death was imminent on the night of his ordination. At some level this makes no sense at all.
Let’s say that you neither read the story of Adam and Eve as a report on historical incident, nor believe in the goodness of human nature. What is your concept of The Fall?
Darwin may have done religion—and God—a favor by revealing a flaw in modern Western faith. Despite our scientific and technological brilliance, our understanding of God is often remarkably undeveloped—even primitive.
Prayer is a lot more than reciting words. It requires mastering both theory and technique.
Alison Flood in The Guardian: He enraged America’s religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials
“Tonight was about the moral “we.” President Obama delivered a hope-filled speech that called us to stop being part of a camp–and instead see our “camp” as the wider American family. Those of us who are rich, who are poor, who are in-between, those who are ill, who are healthy, who one day may be infirm. We are in this together.”
The Paddock Lectures at GTS this year are to be given by The Rev. Dr. Sarah Coakley from Sepember 23 and 24th. The lectures are titled: Beyond “Sexuality”: A New Christian Theology of Desire.
Each time we changed the liturgy or the rules to include another group of people in a previously prohibited arena, we lost some members who could not reconcile that change with their theology. The latest focus on the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people grows out of this long history of the church seeking to apply the baptismal theology that says that in baptism we are all transformed by Christ, becoming equal children of God.
It all depends on where you are headed. Until now.