St. David’s Episcopal Church featured on KXAN TV news in Austin TX. Bishop Doyle has designated St. David’s to become the first of two Episcopal congregations in Texas to officially “bless” same-sex couples.
The opening musical number of “Biblical Girl” is entitled “Made in the Image,” a duet between equally plucky Lilith and Eve, Adam’s first two wives. Eve croons that in the Garden of Eden everything was fine. Then, “something I ate set fire to my imagination.”
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Preparing for General Convention and overwhelmed reading the Blue Book? Two deputies have offered “cliffs notes” style commentaries and reflections on the content and resolutions
The Rev. Mote Magomba of Tanzania speaks about his ministry, and his change of heart on LGBT issues during the Chicago Consultation’s gathering last fall in South Africa.
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The cathedral has denied that they gave the police permission to remove Christians who were dragged from the steps as they knelt in prayer during the eviction of the Occupy camp on 28 February [but] Adrian Leppard,the City of London Police Commissioner, has stated in a letter to London Assembly member Jenny Jones: “Permission was given by St Paul’s to clear the steps”.
by Sam Candler At Pentecost, when the Christian Church remembers the day on which the disciples “were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:4), I think of the mockingbird. I have heard mockingbirds all my life, chortling in the morning dawn, in …
While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, ‘My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.’ And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples. Then suddenly a woman who had been …
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