Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will bless you and magnify you. Let there be no animosity among you but only love, regardless of race, regardless of circumstances. Let us love one another as the Lord would have us do
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church. . . we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,. . . he is en route to perfection in that matter.
If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
The living Lord leads His living church.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.