“My daughter the bride just told me that my fascination/obsession with the panda is ‘not normal’ Guess I need to pay her attn,” Mary Wright Baylor tweeted Friday to Anne Lane Witt, a friend who is an Episcopal priest in Mechanicsburg, Va., and fellow panda-cam aficionado.
Day: August 31, 2013
Largest U.S. Muslim group meets
meeting this weekend. According to its home page:
Beard wars
You’re more likely to see a beard in the pulpit today than at any time since the 1800s. But beards—especially among clergy—were once serious, symbolic matters. They separated East from West during the Great Schism, priests from laity during the Middle Ages, and Protestants from Catholics during the Reformation.
Criminalizing the homeless
The Rev. David R. Henson says that local laws that criminalize the homeless also criminalize Jesus.
The acts of blessing
What is old and what is new
by Kathy Staudt In the upstairs choir room at our church, on the bulletin board, there is a set of crayon drawings by Sunday school children.. One of the Sunday school pictures has my daughter’s name on it. Another has the name of her closest Sunday School friend. My daughter is now 25. The picture […]
