For 14 years, Ian Frazier of The New Yorker has taught a writing workshop at Holy Apostles Episcopal Church in the Chelsea section of New York City. In this issue of the magazine, he writes about the church, its wonderful soup kitchen and the many people he has met through the workshop.
Advertising-driven overconsumption is devastating the global environment, says the Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith, a Trinity Transformational Fellow.
The Rev. George Clifford, a former Navy chaplain argues: Torture involves acts that should lie beyond the bounds of acceptable morality – always. .... Not only is torture antithetical to Christian principles and incompatible with Christian virtue, torture is also ineffective. In other words, the evil of torture very rarely if ever results in a greater good.
Ordinary Time [the Seasons after Epiphany and Pentecost] is the time of the Church, of the daily life of every Christian community, and of each one of us. It is the time not of a brief effort during which one hurries or even runs in order to progress on the way, but the time when one goes at a measured pace in order to cover a long distance.
