Thursday, October 22, 2015

Being a Christian in Everyday Life

The Anglican Witness initiative, coordinated by the Anglican Communion Office, has produced a new video, Being a Christian in everyday life, to highlight current issues in churches in the Global South and North, with a view to a possible Communion-wide response through a focus on discipleship or Christian living. [ACNS]

Learn more here.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Gun Violence

In the face of so much gun violence in our society (mass shootings, children killing children, murder-suicides, and accidents), we need to ask what we can do to limit the carnage we see daily.

I found this article to be helpful:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html
(and if you think his statistics are wrong, go here: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/oct/06/nicholas-kristof/nicholas-kristof-gun-deaths-preschoolers-police/ )

He is right.  If we are going to live with them, we must decide the rules, and the current rules are ineffective...
“We will no longer be silent while violence permeates our world, our society, our Church, our homes and ourselves. Our faith calls us to be ministers of reconciliation, to give voice to the voiceless and to strive for justice in the name of our Lord.” Bishops Ian T. Douglas, James E. Curry and Laura J. Ahrens of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut
Learn more here: http://bishopsagainstgunviolence.org/

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Changing the Narrative on Race

This is important and I found it to be very helpful, even if it is only a taste.  I look forward to more from Trinity Church and the Trinity Institute...

We indeed need truth and reconciliation here.