Day: August 7, 2012

Badminton anyone?

11 Comments / The Lead

B005 Substitute essentially changed the question of adoption from something requiring immediate response to a question we could answer at our leisure, when we are ready to do so. We changed the assumption of the game plan. – Mark Harris, Chair of the sub-committee on the Covenant

What is God Up To? How Can We help?

Speaking to the Soul

I have a friend who likes to summarize Christian life and mission this way: “Go out into the world awake and alert to see what it is that God is up to, and then ask, how can I participate? How can I help in whatever it is that God is already doing?”

Talking snakes and traditional marriage

8 Comments / Daily Episcopalian

by Elizabeth Kaeton What makes a marriage Christian? What is the relationship between the Church’s blessing of a relationship, whether different-gender or same-gender, and a union, “marriage” or otherwise, created by civil law? Is the blessing of a same-gender relationship equivalent to the marriage of a different-gender couple, and if so, should this liturgy be …

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