16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
Today, December 10th, is International Human Rights Day and the final day of the 16 Days Campaign against Gender-Based Violence. This campaign was started in 1991 by the Women’s Global […]
Lent 5: Purge me from my sin
Today we hear of the promise of a new covenant written not on stone but in our hearts. We hear Jesus speaking of being lifted up from the earth, and […]
The Just War Tradition Today
[…] highest priority was not (as it tends to be in modern thinking) the preservation of human life, or even innocent life, at all costs. Life was not regarded in the […]
Joined by Jesus, Christmas 2 – 2015
[…] season is a period in which the Church celebrates that God unites God’s self to humanity in the person of Jesus Christ. At the very heart of Christmas is the […]
Collaboration Between the Religious and Health Care Communities
[…] of work is still called a âcure.â Pastoral ministry is focused on the care of human beings, âsoulâ being shorthand for the whole person, even if the fact that itâs […]
Hope For the Future, Ascension Day – 2016
[…] witness someone who does not have hope or dreams for the future. Part of our human nature is to envision a better tomorrow and strive for new accomplishments and realities. […]
Holy Cross
[…] that day, remembering Francis’ remarkable care for all parts of God’s creation – animals, plants, human beings poor and rich, even brother sun and sister moon. I was there two […]
Holy Cross, Pittsburgh, PA Diocese of Pittsburgh
[…] that day, remembering Francis’ remarkable care for all parts of God’s creation – animals, plants, human beings poor and rich, even brother sun and sister moon. I was there two […]
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop on Christmas Eve: “We gather to celebrate his birth.”
“The eternal hope and yearning of the human race emerges from darkness into light in the birth of this child both humble and divine,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts […]
Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations testifies on Immigration Reform to US Senate Judiciary Committee
[…] 13 hearing on Immigration Reform “Our immigration system must be transformed into a just and humane system that discerns between those who enter illegally to do us harm and those […]
Holy Cross, Pittsburgh, PA Diocese of Pittsburgh
[…] that day, remembering Francis’ remarkable care for all parts of God’s creation – animals, plants, human beings poor and rich, even brother sun and sister moon. I was there two […]
Today’s Gospel Lesson…, Proper 18 (A) – 2011
[…] within the Christian community, especially when things go wrong. And because we are talking about human beings living in community, we can be fairly sure that things will go wrong. […]
Bible Study: Proper 18 (C) – 2013
[…] In this passage, Jeremiah intimates the Creation story in Genesis that tells of God forming humanity from clay. However, instead of being molded lovingly from clay in the Garden of […]
Navajoland Convocation
[…] there be, and it was created…light, sun, moon, waters above and waters below, animals, and human beings. God saw everything that had been created and indeed, it was very good. […]
Presiding bishop’s Christmas Eve sermon
[…] from this time forth and forevermore1, says Isaiah. The eternal hope and yearning of the human race emerges from darkness into light in the birth of this child both humble […]
Debt and Economic Justice
[…] creation: God has created a world in which we are bound together in a common humanity in which each person has equal dignity and value. God has generously given to […]
The Greatest Show on Earth, The Great Vigil of Easter (B) – 2012
[…] attorney William Stringfellow, the circus is a parable of God’s purpose, because in it “ human beings are represented as freed from consignment to death.” This freedom from consignment to […]
Summary of General Convention Resolutions on Abortion and Women's Reproductive Health
[…] leaders walk alongside Episcopalians and others who struggle with this intimate and sacred aspect of human life. Over the past several decades, the General Convention has addressed the topic of […]
Careful Seasoning, Proper 21 (B) – 2015
[…] television cooking show, remember that Jesus himself brought it up: salt. Salt is essential to human life. The National Academies of Science recommend that each of us, on average, take […]
Anti-COVID World Prayer Thursday, May 14th
[…] day on 14 May. The joint initiative with the members of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity, of which the WCC is part, is calling for “prayer and supplication” to […]