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Latin America, Caribbean bishops uphold diversity of Anglicanism
Anglican bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in San José, Costa Rica, May 18-22, released a declaration reaffirming their call for the Anglican Communion “to preserve its participative nature, diverse, ample and inclusive,” characteristics they say are essential to Anglicanism.
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To blame the demise of the church on personal holiness is a dangerous and wrong position. I believe that rather than focusing on changing  our individual lives, we need to change our corporate practice. New wine is currently being wasted by ruptured wineskins, and it is outrageous to ask the workers to keep pressing grapes [...]

“It is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. I am human because I belong. It speaks about wholeness, it speaks about compassion. A person with Ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous, willing to share. Such people are [...]

Someone found my blog by google searching this - eliacin rosario christian
Maybe I am not Christian enough to some people.

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Daily Kos: “Good Riddance Attention Whore”
by Cindy Sheehan
This is my resignation letter as the “face” of the American anti-war movement. This is not my “Checkers” moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am [...]

Baptism is a threshold experience. It’s about moving through a doorway from one room to another, from one space to another, from one community to another. The baptismal service is the moment you stand on the threshold. But you don’t stay there. Before baptism, people belong to the community of their family and are beloved [...]

A short weekend up date:

Peter and Anneke are finally here. They are the new members our community, the Mustard Seed House.
Gabriel was baptized and welcomed into the Beloved Community.
We celebrated, yet again, that Tom’s new book project is finally in the publishers hands.
I’ve been pondering about the importance of a spirituality grounded in community.

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Gabriel will be 5 months old tomorrow. On Sunday, he will take the big plunge as he is welcome into the family of the church through the rite of Holy Baptism.

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Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.
— Ernesto Cardenal in Abide in Love

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