News release While liturgies blessing same-sex unions are celebrated in some parts of the Episcopal Church, the church is not ready to authorize creating common liturgies for such services, General Convention has decided. In a vote by orders, with 58 lay deputations and 62 clergy
Listen to the podcast interview with Bishop Robinson News release A long and difficult journey, for both the church and the bishop-elect of New Hampshire, ended Tuesday evening when the House of Bishops voted to confirm the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson’s election as the next
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas When Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its seven-year run this past May, I knew I would make it the subject of a service. My first thought was to call it “Requiem for a Slayer.” But I quickly realized
Though I am not gay or bisexual, I have faced many problems in my path to finding and rekindling my faith in Christianity. I have searched through many different religions, and I have made many mistakes I find myself unable to forgive myself for (in
There once was a rich man who was near death. He was very grieved because he had worked so hard for his money and he wanted to be able to take it with him to heaven. So he began to pray that he might be
From: paul0426@tarsus.com (Paul, A Servant Of Jesus Christ) To: allusers@rome.org CC: s_peter@jol.com (Judaea Online) Attachments: none Subject: general teaching Also posted to Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.heresy Even using my off-line mail reader (Papyrus 6.2) the on-line and disk space charges on my local dial-up Internet provider
Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with
Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. (Ephesians 6:16) Those of us who have a passion for history should not watch historical movies, because we have a tendency to nitpick. One
We arrived in Rome, and Paul was allowed to live in a house by himself with a soldier to guard him. Three days after we got there, Paul called together some of the Jewish leaders and said: My friends, I have never done anything to
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. They all laughed as they realized that although they had gone off in different directions ‚ from working at home to managing companies‚ they were experiencing similar feelings. Everyone was trying to