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Food for thought
YouTube fans, a search for the word Nooma will turn up Rob Bell's intelligent and thought-provoking video series about what it means to live the Christian life.
Listen to past shows and find related background material on the website of this informative and thought-provoking radio show about religion, meaning, and ethics.
Some ideas related to our own parish objectives in Father Jake Stops the World.
Communion Matters: A Study Document for the Episcopal Church (pdf) is a 15-page study document prepared to help the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops respond to the requests made to them by the Primates of the Anglican Communion at the end of their February gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The eight Millenium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations and agreed to by all the world's nations, are a blueprint for eliminating global poverty.
The Episcopal Church's 75th General Convention voted in June 2006 to make the goals the top mission priority for the church over the next three years. To carry this out, the Convention endorsed a campaign called ONE Episcopalian in partnership with with ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History. You can read more about this effort here.
More information about the campaign and the Millenium Development Goals are available in the back of church. See Brian if you want to buy a white "ONE" wristband to support the campaign.
Father Matthew Moretz, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Yonkers, has produced a series of videos that are both amusing and thought-provoking, including one called Diversity in Faith.
Go forth in peace to love and serve the Lord: Ethics in action.
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