Tom Ferguson of Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary (AKA Crusty Old Dean) was recently featured on All Sides with Ann Fisher, a local NPR show in Columbus. Listen to a 13-minute segment to hear him talk about fasting in Christianity and Judaism.
Day: July 24, 2013
5 ways to be unsatisfied with your church
Shane Blackshear offers a list of 5 ways to be unsatisfied with a church. Rather than share just one of his list, here’s the marriage metaphor at the end that points to the work that is needed with a church relationship:
Reconsidering the legacy of religion’s leftward tilt
The New York Times’ Jennifer Schuessler considers a number of books looking at the history of “the religious left”:
Before The Dance
Image above (and on front-page mastheads) and words: Mariam Before The Dance by Danielle Bilen.
How Rhode Island churches avoid shutting down
Richard C. Dujardin of the Providence Journal covered A. Robert Jaeger’s visit with Rhode Island church leaders. Jaeger heads the Philadelphia-based Partners for Sacred Places:
Don’t Take This Seriously
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 — Week of Proper 11, Year One [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture readings.] Today’s Readings for the Daily Office (Book of Common Prayer, p. 976) Psalms 119:49-72 (morning) // 49 (evening) 1 Samuel 25:23-44 Acts 14:19-28 Mark 4:35-41 In today’s […]
How to be in the presence of Jesus
by Deirdre Good Text: Beginning to Pray an experience with a Russian woman whom he visited in a nursing home before she died at the age of 102. It was shortly after his ordination and she sought his advice. “All these years I have been asking people who are reputed to know about prayer, and […]