Bishop William White ?was the 1st and 4th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the 1st and 4th President of the House of Deputies, and the Chaplain to Continental Congress. He “lives” now on Twitter @BpWhiteLives .
Day: June 20, 2012
Uganda continues to move against gay rights
Reuters reports: Uganda said on Wednesday it was banning 38 non-governmental organizations it accuses of promoting homosexuality and recruiting children.
Does social media change the terms of youth pilgrimage?
With summer on, many Episcopal parishes, including mine, have sent or will soon be sending teenagers on “pilgrimage.” Our youth group is in San Francisco for a week, visiting tourist sites and sacred spaces. I’ve been pondering how social media has changed the terms of this rite of passage, in that parents, friends and our […]
Wrestling with the hard texts until they bless us
Professor Steve Fowl of Loyola University in Baltimore discusses his experience at a consultation on the Bible and LGBT issues in Durban, South Africa among Episcopalians and African Anglicans sponsored by the Chicago Consultation and the Ujamaa Centre at the University of KwaZulu Natal.
Two Verses Omitted
“For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another…
First day of summer
Today is the summer solstice: the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer.
