Those tempted to skip church on Easter Sunday (or those attending a midnight or sunrise vigil) can stay home to hear “Face the Nation,” featuring Bishop Mariann Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. She will be part of a roundtable discussion on the state of religion in America. Joining her will be the Islamic […]
Day: March 29, 2013
Gene Robinson on Holy Week and the Supreme Court
Bishop Gene Robinson writes on this Good Friday at the Washington Post’s On Faith blog:
CEO speaks out for the oppressed in Dallas
Today is Good Friday, when we remember what terrible injustice occurs when no one among us cries out to stop it. Yesterday in Dallas, a prominent business leader challenged a country club audience to take action to right entrenched injustice against the poor and oppressed. Rudolph Bush of the Dallas Morning News reports:
When the Worst Happens
When the worst happens. That’s today…
Pollesal approved at last as Uruguay’s bishop coadjutor
Nearly a year after his election to the position, Archdeacon Michael Pollesal has been ratified as bishop coadjutor of Uruguay. The Uruguay Synod elected Pollesal to the position in May 2012, but, without explanation, the election was not ratified at that time by the House of Bishops of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. […]
The Tree Of Love
its roots hath spread…
Holy Saturday: a point in time
by Linda Ryan Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white […]