Easter DayFirst reading and psalm: Acts 10:34-43 or Isa. 65:17-25 • Ps. 118:1-2, 14-24Alternate: 1 Cor. 15:19-26 or Acts 10:34-43 • John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12Every funeral is an occasion to stare down death; we bow to look into the tomb (John 20:11). Under the pall in the casket rests a body, lifeless and still. The living weep and grieve with a deep heartfelt humanity, and … [Read more...] about Deathless Life
Archives for March 2013
Vol. 246, No. 8, Online
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Primitive Prayer
By Patrick T. Twomey Late second-century Christianity, a period during which martyrdom was a distinctive form of Christian testimony, offers a dramatic display of what prayer cannot do, and a sign also of what it can do. Reading, for instance, the story of “The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity,” one is struck by the resolve and quiet confidence with which martyrs faced their … [Read more...] about Primitive Prayer
Honoring Chicago’s Victims
By Steve WaringAbout 1,400 people joined an evening prayer vigil and marched through downtown Chicago March 22 in honor of the city’s 806 young victims of gun violence since 2008.CROSSwalk began in the evening at St. James Commons. The march included a large turnout of supportive police in squad cars, on foot, and on bicycles. Police stopped traffic as the procession completed … [Read more...] about Honoring Chicago’s Victims
Frances Perkins Prevails
Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, has won a posthumous honor: victory in the 2013 bracket of Lent Madness.Lent Madness invites Christians to choose among 32 people — some designated as saints and some under consideration for the Episcopal Church’s calendar — for the Golden Halo award.On March 1 a Washington-based website, The … [Read more...] about Frances Perkins Prevails
Bishop Approved for Uruguay
Ali Symons reports for the Anglican Church of Canada:The Anglican Province of the Southern Cone has reconsidered the diocese of Uruguay’s appeal and has voted to ratify the election of Archdeacon Michael Pollesel as coadjutor bishop.The decision came 10 months after the province’s house of bishops rejected Pollesel’s election. The Uruguayan diocesan synod had appealed the … [Read more...] about Bishop Approved for Uruguay
Bishops File SCOTUS Briefs
By Lee PennTwenty-nine bishops of the Episcopal Church filed two Supreme Court briefs Feb. 28 supporting same-sex civil marriage. These bishops, acting at the invitation of the Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, Bishop of California, have asked the High Court to overturn two laws that restrict civil marriage to heterosexual couples. They have been joined in their plea by a number of … [Read more...] about Bishops File SCOTUS Briefs
Tears of God
By Peggy EastmanUndaunted by snow that turned to rain, nearly 20 bishops led an estimated 300 clergy and lay people on a Stations of the Cross prayer walk March 25 from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. The bishops, joined by the Rt. Rev. Dinis Sengulane of Mozambique, protested a culture of gun violence in the United States and urged Congress to pass tougher … [Read more...] about Tears of God