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    • She spoke to the soulShe spoke to the soulApril 18, 2018Remembering our friend and companion Ann Fontaine....
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      • Former Episcopal priest indicted on child sex abuse
        Former Episcopal priest indicted on child sex abuseThe North Carolina charges against White pertain to two alleged victims — one male and one female: first-degree forcible sex offense, two counts of indecent liberties with a child, first-degree forcible rape, four counts second-degree forcible sex offense, and second-degree forcible rape. White is currently serving a sentence in Massachusetts for child sex abuse....
      • Theresa May ‘deeply regrets’ UK’s colonial criminalization of homosexuality
        Theresa May ‘deeply regrets’ UK’s colonial criminalization of homosexualitySpeaking at the summit of Commonwealth Nations, prime minister May said: “I am all too aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.”...
      • No more empty prayers for refugees
        No more empty prayers for refugeesForty people showed up, and formed the kernel of a community group that eventually sponsored a Syrian refugee family for settlement in Connecticut....
      • Why people go to church
        Why people go to churchGallup takes a stab at understanding why people go to worship, and why they don’t. What lessons for our evangelism efforts might be learned from the results?...
      • The urban-rural divide in the Episcopal Church
        The urban-rural divide in the Episcopal ChurchDoes the Episcopal Church have a future where it can thrive in rural communities?...

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    • PodcastsApril 19, 2018
      Priest Pulse: Help my unbelief!In this episode we explore deconstructionism and the Episcopal Church with The Rev Connor Gwin, Canon for Social Engagement and Christian Formation in the Diocese of Southwest Virginia who writes at mbird.com Link to article: http://www.mbird.com/2018/03/closer-than-you-think-the-trouble-with-deconstruction/... Read more...
    • PodcastsApril 15, 2018
      2FAB #92: JonahLuci and Jordan open up Jonah, which is definitely not a boring part of the Bible!... Read more...
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      Subversive Undercroft: WitnessesJesus is alive!  Thats’s as true for us as for the disciples 2000 years ago; and he’s still inviting us into a scary unknown place with him.... Read more...
    • PodcastsApril 13, 2018
      From All Points: Where the Spirit willsIn this episode we debrief our Holy Week and Easter experiences, muse on the vagaries of a life of ministry, and wonder at the work of the Holy Spirit  ... Read more...
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    • Speaking to the SoulApril 19, 2018
      Snagging Souls“I ruminate on soul-snagging. How might I cooperate with the Holy Spirit in her use of me?”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 18, 2018
      The First Apostle“So if not a formerly demon-possessed, reformed prostitute, who was this woman who according to near unanimous New Testament tradition was at the cross, witness to Jesus’ burial, and the first witness to the resurrection?”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 17, 2018
      Holy Ground“Take off your shoes, this is holy ground.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 16, 2018
      Rivers of Living Water“And if we pray, really pray in thanksgiving, gratitude, and in humble petition for the good of the world, the Holy Spirit will sustain us, open our mouths, and maybe the Gospel will come pouring out, the way Jesus instructed when he sent disciples into the world.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 15, 2018
      Who Will You Be?“There are a million different ways to be found by God and adopted into God’s family, but becoming an heir takes a lifetime!”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 14, 2018
      DIY TR“You find a way for God to work through you, and you understand what you are meant to do to make the kingdom of God appear here on earth.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 13, 2018
      Miracle Food“Yet it is in the mundane and the banal that we often find the strongest evidence that God is working with us every day to be a part of the restoration of the world.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulApril 12, 2018
      What Is Needed Now?“Here is the heart of Christian teaching, its very essence. “Love one another as I have loved you.”... Read more...
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    • Featured Story / The LeadApril 18, 2018
      She spoke to the soulRemembering our friend and companion Ann Fontaine.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 18, 2018
      Former Episcopal priest indicted on child sex abuseThe North Carolina charges against White pertain to two alleged victims — one male and one female: first-degree forcible sex offense, two counts of indecent liberties with a child, first-degree forcible rape, four counts second-degree forcible sex offense, and second-degree forcible rape. White is currently serving a sentence in Massachusetts for child sex abuse.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 18, 2018
      Theresa May ‘deeply regrets’ UK’s colonial criminalization of homosexualitySpeaking at the summit of Commonwealth Nations, prime minister May said: “I am all too aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.”... Read more...
    • Featured Story / The LeadApril 17, 2018
      News from the courts in South CarolinaThe Episcopal Church in South Carolina reports on the latest developments in court cases that have been ongoing since the diocese was split by the separation of Bishop Mark Lawrence and fifty-four local parishes from the Episcopal Church in 2012. U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Gergel has granted motions to expand a federal false-advertising and trademark infringement lawsuit against the bishop of a group that left The Episcopal Church, adding as defendants the breakaway organization and parishes that followed […]... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 17, 2018
      No more empty prayers for refugeesForty people showed up, and formed the kernel of a community group that eventually sponsored a Syrian refugee family for settlement in Connecticut.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 16, 2018
      Why people go to churchGallup takes a stab at understanding why people go to worship, and why they don’t. What lessons for our evangelism efforts might be learned from the results?... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 12, 2018
      Wrestling with the evangelical conundrumLong time ABC Religion Reporter Peggy Wehmeyer has a piece at today’s DallasNews.com setting out her anxieties over where the relationship between Evangelicals and President Trump might be going and how it has changed her views of her self-identification as an Evangelical.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadApril 12, 2018
      Thy kingdom ComeIn this video The Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Thabo Makgoba, talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and touches on his experiences as a teenager in Apartheid-era South Africa when he was chased by troops and feared for his life as they reflect on the Lord’s prayer.... Read more...
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    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 15, 2018
      The urban-rural divide in the Episcopal ChurchDoes the Episcopal Church have a future where it can thrive in rural communities?... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 14, 2018
      How can we move our faith forward?Inspiring readers with daily scripture readings and reflections since 1935, Forward Day by Day is your companion for the journey. Check out this preview of upcoming FDbD devotions.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 14, 2018
      Where Jesus LivesBut the real reason that I have been at that church almost every Sunday since for over seven years is that Jesus was there. I walked in and there he was. He was in every face in every pew. I saw him. I felt the spirit in the air. It was humming.... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 13, 2018
      Common Prayer in a Global Church?Episcopalians might be people of common prayer; that is, prayer said in common, but there is more in heaven and earth than can be held solely within the pages of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 13, 2018
      Fishing for PeopleEpiscopalians are typically motivated more by gratitude for the gift of Jesus and new life as his followers, than by anxiety for the salvation of others.   We tend to believe in the “wideness of God’s mercy”... Read more...
    • The MagazineApril 8, 2018
      From the Daily Sip: Beloved discipleThe church is not changing.  The church is not dying.  The church is simply molting into a new form.  Could it be that Celtic spirituality – “a listening for God in the heart of life” as John Philip defines it, may be there to catch a church beginning its free-fall from power?... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineApril 7, 2018
      Christos Anesti!In Celebrating the 50 Days of Easter, Nancy Hopkins-Greene explores ways let go of fear, cultivate signs of new life, read the Bible, bring new life to others, and invite God into your questions.... Read more...
    • The MagazineApril 7, 2018
      Fearless Fundraising: CreamcakesOne of the great mysteries of life in the church is the question of and tension between bounty and scarcity.  It is so much easier to talk in church of things “spiritual” like the Trinity, sin, hope, eternal life.  Angels and incense –chalices not calluses.  The stakes are rather low if lovely.... Read more...
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