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Reflections from the Archbishop - Tuesday, August 26th 2008 10:30 AM
The Archbishop of Canterbury has now written the primates and bishops of the Anglican Communion with his personal reflections of the Lambeth Conference. Excerpt: For the vast...
Contemplative prayer - Monday, August 25th 2008 1:22 PM
Getting my mind around exactly what is meant by the term contemplative prayer  has challenged me for some time. Lately I came across a nice, vivid metaphor from Fr. James...
Bishop Howe reports on Lambeth - Friday, August 22nd 2008 3:16 PM
Bishop Howe has written his summary report from the Lambeth Conference and he remains firm and encouraging after watching the archbishop at work. The following report will be...
Nouwen - Tuesday, August 19th 2008 11:00 PM
Several years ago Sr. Jean recommended Henri Nouwen's book The Return of the Prodigal Son and I've finally read it. I, too, HIGHLY recommend it. A brief taste: I am beginning...
The thinking church - Friday, August 15th 2008 12:30 PM
Canon Kendall Harmon tries to light a candle for Christian education on a Sunday morning: I have here a parish newsletter from one of the largest parishes in the country, and...
Foreigners - Friday, August 15th 2008 9:24 AM
Fr. Richard Niehaus tells us he is working on a new book in which he'll reflect on the Christian experience of being aliens in this world. In a column at First Things he refers...
heh - Thursday, August 14th 2008 9:44 AM
Fr. Conger speaks - Wednesday, August 13th 2008 7:08 AM
Fr. George Conger, a journalist and priest resident in the Central Florida Diocese, sits down with Albert Mohler to talk about the Lambeth Conference.  [Yes,...
The train - Tuesday, August 12th 2008 3:51 PM
Now for something completely different than what you're used to in the Book of Common Prayer! First Things invites you to read it "with a John Wayne voice." A Texas...
The Archbishop's address - Tuesday, August 12th 2008 8:00 AM
The Archbishop of Canterbury's final address to the Lambeth Conference is now up at his web page. This speech carries his conclusions about the present condition and future of...
Missionary to Hollywood - Wednesday, August 6th 2008 2:59 PM
Barbara Nicolosi, missionary to Hollywood (and thus, the world): Christians need to grow up and understand that this is a very dark world which is locked in a high stakes...
Lambeth 2008 - Tuesday, August 5th 2008 7:22 AM
The Get Religion blog reviews how the press covered the Lambeth Conference and finds much to correct. There is much to read about the just concluded conference (including...
Liturgical changes - Wednesday, July 30th 2008 11:16 AM
Fr. Al keeps warning me that the Episcopal Church is working on a new version of the Book of Common Prayer (shudder). The Roman Catholics are also at work on a new English...
Cats, hats, and designers - Tuesday, July 29th 2008 9:35 AM
Frederica is always fun to read. While I’m not very informed about the Intelligent Design debate, the idea sounds inoffensive enough: Scientists cannot prove there is a...
Bishop behind bars - Tuesday, July 22nd 2008 10:19 AM
There is an amusing picture of our beloved Bishop at Lambeth along with one of the daily reports he has filed. Please note that although the Bishop is behind bars, they...
Leni at Lambeth - Sunday, July 20th 2008 5:30 PM
The theological struggle at Lambeth meets the 21st century with tools of 20th century propaganda. Here's a fascinating critique of one "documentary" being shown to the Lambeth...
Pauline Kael - Thursday, July 17th 2008 3:22 PM
Possibly you know the name Pauline Kael. A Canadian newspaper has a reflection on her work as a movie critic here. Toward the end of her career she was heard to say,...
Lambeth UPDATED - Monday, July 14th 2008 1:20 PM
At First Things, Jordan Hylden reviews the situation before Lambeth Conference: Unfortunately, there are several factors in play that will make the Lambeth bishops’ task very...
Central Florida Diocese at Lambeth - Wednesday, July 9th 2008 4:53 PM
Bishops invited to the Lambeth Conference have been asked to bring along video presentations of the Church life back home. You can see the video Bishop Howe will take along at...
Forgiving - Monday, July 7th 2008 3:49 PM
"A decade after the extermination of one in eight Rwandans, after the Hutus turned on the Tutsis and even some of their own, the two tribes had to learn to live together." But...
Sundays in America - Tuesday, July 1st 2008 9:06 AM
"There's a show on television called Wife Swap, in which two women switch homes and families for two weeks. It took me less time than that to figure out the fascination, which...
Prayers of the People - Thursday, June 26th 2008 9:10 PM
To be Catholic is to believe that the Church's prayers - far from being exercises in futility, with pain and war and horror grinding on implacably in spite of our prayers -...
Top Ten - Wednesday, June 25th 2008 10:37 AM
There is music news from: ...the ancient Cistercian monastery of the Holy Cross, Stift Heiligenkreuz, in Austria’s Vienna woods. The large stone abbey, a blend of Gothic and...
Prayer - Tuesday, June 17th 2008 1:54 PM
How Henri Nouwen taught the seminarians to pray.  
Is it the same? - Tuesday, June 10th 2008 9:00 AM
Jennifer Roback Morse considers the impact of same-sex "marriage." Marriage between men and women is a pre-political, naturally emerging social institution. Men and women come...