The Confessional is an installation meant to provoke reflection on the radical nature of forgiveness. The idea was born through artist Carole Baker’s struggle to forgive someone after she felt deeply wounded. John 8:1-11 took on new significance as she saw for the first time the clever brilliance of Christ’s response to those who were testing him. Rather than condemning or … [Read more...] about Art of Forgiveness
Archives for February 2012
Haiti Decision Due Soon
By Gary G. YerkeyThe team charged with overseeing construction of a new Episcopal cathedral in Haiti is expected to decide within the next few weeks on the architectural firm that will design and coordinate the construction of the new facility.In 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed Holy Trinity Cathedral.Sources said that requests for proposals were sent in early … [Read more...] about Haiti Decision Due Soon
Bishop, Wife Killed in Brazil
The Rt. Rev. Edward Robinson de Barros Cavalcanti and his wife, Miriam Cotias Cavalcanti Nunes Machado, were murdered in their home in Olinda, Brazil, late Sunday. The bishop was 68 and his wife was 64.Police suspect the couple’s son, Eduardo Cavalcanti Olimpio Cotias, 29, whom they said poisoned and stabbed himself after the attacks. He was admitted to a hospital.Cavalcanti … [Read more...] about Bishop, Wife Killed in Brazil
Secure in a Storm
The First Sunday in LentGen. 9:8-17 • Ps. 25:1-91 Peter 3:18-22 • Mark 1:9-15Let not the devil defeat you; let Christ crush his miserable head. If God is for us, who can be against us? Throw open the door of your heart and let Christ come in to break the bread of his presence and pour out his sacrificial potion; let him say the irrevocable word whose vestiges are upon the worn … [Read more...] about Secure in a Storm
African Text, African Crisis
By Ian ErnestIn early February I preached my final sermon as chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa. The Gospel text was Mark 1:29-39, about the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law and the great evening healings as the whole town gathers before the house.It is a very African scene. Indeed, the Bible is a very African book: the people wait for sunset before they … [Read more...] about African Text, African Crisis
Editorial: Getting to Yes
The proposed Anglican Communion Covenant has taken a battering lately in a handful of diocesan synods of the Church of England, thanks in part to an influential, if incoherent, campaign by the No Anglican Covenant Coalition. The coalition’s opposition to the Covenant has principally centered on a sustained disinterest in global Communion structures, funded by an unhappy amnesia … [Read more...] about Editorial: Getting to Yes
Walking Together in Haiti
By Mark HarrisWith 15 people from St. Peter’s, Lewes, Delaware, I returned in early February from a deeply transforming week with members of a parish in Montrouis, Haiti. It was an experience unlike any other I have had in my years of involvement in Haiti. It was an example of being Companions in Transformation (the title of the mission theology resource prepared for the 2003 … [Read more...] about Walking Together in Haiti
Outward and Visible Penance
By Nicholas Porter and Dawn StegelmannLent has been considered a time of turning, that time when we personally break from the old and deadly patterns in our lives that are no longer life-giving. This year, our parish clergy decided it was not only a time to turn personally from those patterns but for the Church to turn in some new directions as well. So at 6 a.m. on Ash … [Read more...] about Outward and Visible Penance