The Convention of the Diocese of Olympia voted last week to divest within five years all of its holdings in the world’s top fossil fuel companies.
Day: November 15, 2013
Welby’s practical moral conscience
Archbishop Justin Welby has become the practical conscience of the UK, speaking out about the moral consequences of the banking industry in the UK and the consumer culture in the west.
Live web forum “Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America” today
The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Mississippi will host a 90-minute forum, Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America, live-streamed from St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 15, at 2 p.m. (EST).
The Bible re-tweeted.
Blogger Jana Riess tweeted every book of the Old and New Testaments. The Mormon author of “Flunking Sainthood” spent four years summarizing each book in 140 characters or less. These tweets have been complied into a book called “The Twible” (rhymes with Bible).
The voice of vengeance
Our fundamental book of faith contains the same uncomfortable paradox we find in our daily journey within our human condition–the coexistence of both abounding love and unspeakable horror.