Reflections from Rick Lord on Leadership, Transformation, and Things That Keep Human Life Distinctively Human
The Pew Research Center has posted a new series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial generation. From the overview: By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith [...]
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In this video, also available here, Rowan Williams talks of Lent as providing an opportunity to “sweep and clean the room of our own minds and hearts so that the new life really may have room to come in and take over and transform us at Easter.” The Archbishop says: “It’s not about feeling gloomy [...]
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Some people give up something for Lent, like a favorite food. Alabama Episcopal Bishop Henry N. Parsley brings something extra with him during Lent. “I carry a stone in my pocket,” Parsley said on Ash Wednesday as he opened the Lenten preaching series at Cathedral Church of the Advent. He held it in his fingers [...]
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[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori paid a poignant visit to Port-au-Prince Feb. 8 to survey with Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin the devastation wrought by the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake. After climbing over the ruins of the diocese’s Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral), the presiding bishop turned to Duracin [...]
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Last Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced its support for relieving Haiti’s international debt. Debt relief for Haiti will free up financing for the country to recover from the January 12th earthquake and rebuild its shattered infrastructure. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has pledged to work with other donor agencies to alleviate this debt burden on [...]
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The Washington-Metro area is digging out from its fourth largest snowfall on record. The Northern Virginia suburbs registered from 28 t0 30 inches of snow by nightfall yesterday. I woke up early this morning to make the 3 mile walk to Holy Comforter. A parishioner, Drew Colliaitie, picked me up half way there in his [...]
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I’m a Patti Griffin fan. I first encountered her passionate and mournful voice when she opened for Shawn Colvin at the 9:30 Club in 1996 during Shawn’s “A Few Small Repairs” tour. The more I listened, and the more live performances I attended, the more her music and commitment touched me and I’ve been an [...]
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