Two Items of Interest Related to the Education of Children and Youth, Near and Far

An article by Trinity Wall Street provides us with a call to service as well as a call to hope. Consider how you, or your congregation, might contribute in order to 'get 30,000 students back in classrooms (in the Port Au Prince area) by Easter'. Click this link for information: http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/news/articles/give-hope-to-haitis-students-donate-now-to-support-episcopal-schools.

Interested in resources for ministry with/for teens? A book, My Faith, My Life was written by Jenifer Gamber, confirmation and baptismal preparation team leader at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, PA. Miracle of miracles, Jenifer writes and maintains a website with the same title, namely: http://www.myfaithmylife.org. Currently the lead article on the web site's home page is entitled Youth and the Way of St. Benedict. There are 10 features on this website, including one spotlighting our very own Father Matthew Moretz! Click on the link above and enjoy the many resources presented there. Many thanks, Jenifer, for these resources and many blessings on your valuable ministries!

Plain Talk for the Whole Year Through

Yes, we're about to enter Holy/Passion week. We - as a nation - have been through a great many debates and no lack of mud slinging behind the scenes (if in this age of multimedia there exists such a place).

In the Episcopal Church there has been wrangling, wide spread judgementalism along different sides of a line on any number of issues and decisions.

Enough.

Today I read a concise piece truth and reconciliation. Sharing it with you - especially in preparation for the retelling of the essential story of our faith - is right and just.

Please use this link to read the article by Wesley J. Wildman and Stephen Chapin Garner on The Alban Institute website: http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=8988 .