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God’s call to newness

Anna Greenwood-Lee — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:10:50 +0000

I was heartened by how many of you have responded positively to my charge at synod in which I said that “the future is not going to look like the past.” There seems to be broad acceptance that this is indeed true, and that we can and should work together as a church to discern […]

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In all places and at all times

Herbert O’Driscoll — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:10:06 +0000

A friend told me that his son, who works with the United Nations in the Middle East, is frequently asked, “Where do you pray,” meaning “where do you worship?” In both cases, it is natural to think immediately of a place, a building or a community, and to name it. Yet recently, I found myself […]

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Will it be God or Mammon? Contesting the religion of market capitalism

John J. Thatamanil — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:09:47 +0000

Self-deception — many in North America engage in it when they claim not to be religious. Many churchgoers also deceive themselves when we say that we are, first and foremost, Christians. Let me explain. I’m all for accepting what people say about themselves when it comes to matters religious. However, when people say that they […]

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Barbie, memento mori and liberation

Adela Torchia — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:09:13 +0000

Just as one envisions a skull in a classical monk’s cell, as a memento mori – a reminder of one’s mortality — so too the pink utopia of the seemingly perfect Barbie World is disrupted in the movie — by a question about death. Barbie Land does not usually deal with such serious subjects since […]

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Taking care of ourselves and each other

Cathy Carphin — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:08:21 +0000

We are still recovering from the pandemic closures of 2020 and afterwards. Thankfully, we can now return to in-person church services and gather with our fellow parishioners, and as well to have personal choices to wear a mask or not. Some of us took this isolation in our stride, taking comfort in our home and […]

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