Episcopal News Service reports
Day: April 15, 2012
Getting snuggly with your faith
Vision Bedding:
April 15: Jackie Robinson Day
Celebrating official denomination of baseball and your editors at Episcopal Café are crazy for baseball. To keep up our standing we are honoring Jackie Robinson today along with other major league teams.
Religiosity by state
Bad religion: American heresies
Ross Douhat, author of Bad Religion: How we became a nation of heretics, interviewed about his new book on
My grandchildren ask big questions: compassion
by Margaret Treadwell “Church is what you do” was the family mantra in my small hometown where the Episcopal Church became my spiritual, intellectual, emotional and social stronghold from an early age. My teenage involvement and service with the Diocese of Alabama jump-started my adventuresome life. Grace Church was a lifesaver for my mother when […]
Trust me
So it’s very possible that the intent of this passage is actually more like, “Don’t worry. You have a belief in God and also a belief in me”–suggesting that this part of the discourse in John is more about our belief being a survival manual than a celestial soda machine, doling out soft drinks if only we plug it with the right number of prayer quarters.