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The first episode of the BBC series is online for a short time.

Dave Hartline of the Catholic Report is reporting from the General Convention: Dave Hartline   Some of the conservative folks think the Episcopal Church isn’t following the Scriptures. How do you answer their concerns? Bishop Chilton Knudson  Well that is an interesting question and unfortunately time constraints doesn’t permit me to answer it.  It was awfully…

Not until July 31, but the Pittsburgh paper runs with the story early: 12 women who will be ordained by other women to something. Here’s a point that I wish reporters and particularly (in this case) headline writers would get: truly and honestly, these ordinations have nothing to do with the Catholic Church. They just…

Abortion clinic shut down for causing the death of a baby. Well, at least it’s shut down, thank God.

As noted here earlier, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the USA (which is changing its name to just the "Episcopal Church," inspiring all kinds of speculation) is meeting in Columbus this week. The most newsy items on the agenda all have to do with homosexuality and the impact the ECUSA’s ordination of…

…it means 2 and 1/2 hours in the park. Well, not all that time in the park. There’s the trip there: (Obviously no double strollers or fancy jogging strollers here. And yes, both are ambulatory. But we wanted a 2 1/2 hour trip – not 4 hours.) And then, after an hour or so in…

Well, I’ve been meaning to write something like this for a while – not in response to virulent anti-breeders, but simply on how parenting is a delightful experience in hanging out with other fun humans. If you choose to look at it that way. Slate’s Emily Yoffe, author of "Dear Prudence," answered a letter-writer ,…

Sitting on the back porch, writing about the Psalms. A 5-year old dashes about in the yard, protecting me – and the rest of the world, I’m thinking –  from evil. Summer is my favorite time of year.

Michael told me the other night of a news story he’d read indicating that the more plugged in a young person is, the more anxious and depressed they are. Now, there could be an inverse relationship as well – that the more depressed a kid is, the more they plug in. But as we were…

There seems to be something about the Christian, and in its roots, the Jewish ethical vision that brings balance into a world frought with struggle and the temptation to just be done with it. I suppose what it all comes down to is the definition of life as a gift. As a gift it’s to…
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