Thursday, April 5, 2018

On Vacation. We'll be back next week

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Rwanda closes thousands of churches in bid for more control

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From The Washington Post- Rwanda’s government has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques as it seeks to assert more control ov...

Climbers scale the tower at 90-year-old St. Paul's Episcopal Church

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From North Carolina- The last time anyone scaled the 90-foot bell tower of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Winston-Salem was nearl...

Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute but a devoted disciple who supported Jesus financially and spiritually, scholars say

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From The Independent- If there’s a feminist figure from the Bible for the #MeToo era, it could very well be Mary Magdalene. The major char...

What makes A Wrinkle in Time Christian?

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From Christian Century- Works of art can become holy to people, and these “sacred texts” are miracles. A book, a song...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Easter 'surprise' greets members at St. Paul's Episcopal Church

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From Lansing- Members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church had an Easter surprise waiting for them when they walked into the century-old bui...

Democrats Are Christians, Too

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From The New York Times- Now that Stormy Daniels has confirmed on national television that Donald Trump initiated sex with her just months...

Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in God

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From The Atlantic- When I first told my mother—a liberal, secular New Yorker—that I wanted to cross an ocean to study for a bachelor’s deg...

Why good Christians must disavow Trump

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From NY Daily News- Back in 2017, when asked if he wanted the President to embody the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, evang...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

How Easter became a #MeToo moment

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From CNN- But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense." -- Luke 24:11 The men refused to lis...

The Easter Effect and How It Changed the World

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From The Wall Street Journal- In the year 312, just before his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge won him the undisputed leadersh...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

As they back Trump, evangelical leaders face their own sex scandals

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From The Boston Globe - As white evangelicals have been some of President Trump’s staunchest defenders, a handful of their leaders find th...

Why I'm Joining the Episcopal Church

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From Simple Follower- Tomorrow, during the Great Easter Vigil at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, my family and I will be received into t...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Newport’s St. James church to reopen April 8

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From Los Angeles- The long-locked St. James church in Newport Beach will reopen next weekend. According to a statement Thursday from the ...

Diocese of Atlanta clergy, laity renew vows at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church

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From ENS- Clergy and laity of the Diocese of Atlanta gathered this week for their renewal of vows in the sanctuary of the historic Ebeneze...

THE LAST SUPPER: LOVE FROZEN IN TIME

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From Episcopal Relief- The Last Supper: The first image that comes to mind is that of the great and majestic fresco of Leonardo da Vinci, ...

Archbishop of Canterbury offers to help end violence in Nigeria

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From Nigeria- The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Tuesday repeated his offer to contribute towards any peace negotiations as viol...

Vatican: Claim that pope denied hell’s existence is unreliable

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From America Magazine- The Vatican said comments attributed to Pope Francis denying the existence of hell are a product of an Italian jour...

Pontius Pilate: You should have listened to your wife

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From Lindsay Hardin Freeman- The story of Jesus’ life and death could have turned out differently, had Pontius Pilate listened to his wife...

Church Leader Mauled By Lion After Trying To Prove God Would Intervene

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Matthew 4:7- A Christian church leader tried to prove that the Lord would step forward and come to his rescue and save him recently when h...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

This 3D “carbon copy” of Jesus was created using the Shroud of Turin

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From Aleteia- "We believe that we have the precise image of what Jesus looked like on this earth," said Professor Giulio Fanti o...

US Episcopal Church ‘in denial’ over substance abuse among its leaders

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From The Church Times- THE Episcopal Church in the United States has failed to address substance abuse within its senior ranks because of ...

Survivor’s Reply to Archbishops’ pastoral letter

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From Surviving Church- Today a Pastoral Letter is being read in churches across the country. Here is a reply to the letter from one of tho...

Moving deeper into Holy Week, Presiding Bishop visits Bethlehem, Nazareth

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From ENS- The gift of spending Holy Week in the Holy Land grew deeper and more real on March 28 for those on pilgrimage with Presiding Bis...

Anne Lamott (Author) Writes Down Every Single Thing She Knows, As of Today

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From Daily Good- My inside self does not have an age, although can’t help mentioning as an aside that it might have been useful had I not ...

Misspelled Acomb sign proclaims 'Chris is Risen'

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From The BBC A church was presented with signs reading "Chris is risen" after a mix up at the printers. Acomb Parish Church, in...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

'Religious left' emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era

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From Reuters- Since President Donald Trump’s election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic chapel of New York’s Unio...

Bishop of US-based Episcopal Church installed as Canon of St George’s, Jerusalem

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From La Croix- I n a sign of Christian unity, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States has taken residence as a c...

Church Treasurer fired for suspected embezzlement

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From Western New York- St. David’s Episcopal Church has fired its treasurer, accusing the former employee of stealing $55,000 from the con...

Since 1993, I Have Learned to Observe Good Friday on My Knees

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From Patheos- On Good Friday, 1993, around noon, I slipped into the chapel of the nearby Episcopal church where I prayed weekly for an hou...