Anglican Bishop Removed as Clergy Call for Transparency in Investigation

While the ACNA hasn’t offered public updates on a trial for Stewart Ruch’s abuse response, Todd Atkinson, a bishop appointed to assist him, has been deposed over inappropriate relationships. Nearly three years ago, Bishop Stewart Ruch of the Anglican Church in North America’s Diocese of the Upper Midwest admitted “regrettable errors” in handling sexual abuse allegations against a lay minister, before taking a leave of absence. An acting bishop took over the diocese... Read More

Biotech millionaire, UM donor owns boat towing teen girl killed off Key Biscayne, records show

The boat towing the Ransom Everglades student who was killed in a Biscayne Bay boating accident earlier this month is owned by a renowned biotech entrepreneur who lives in a $23 million Miami Beach home, is a University of Miami donor and owns a 182-foot superyacht in addition to the vessel involved in the accident off Key Biscayne, the Miami Herald reported. Jonathan Rothberg, 61, who made his fortune through several geonomics and medical device companies he founded, is the owner of the... Read More

Be Quick to Listen, Slow to ‘Therapy Speak’

Using terms like trauma, abuse, and toxic too flippantly has consequences for our relationships. I was going through a breakup when I started therapy post-pandemic. My friends were telling me that I needed to work on healthier emotional boundaries. They said I was probably experiencing trauma from a toxic ex. Most likely, I’d been in a codependent relationship. When I went to fill out the intake questionnaire before my first appointment, I regurgitated what I’d heard. I was... Read More

The Flannery O’Connor Novel That Might Have Been

Her final work was continually revised but never finished. Can we know what she was aiming to achieve? Flannery O’Connor was an inveterate rewriter, working, reworking, and deleting episodes from her stories and novels. Her archives, collected at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, bulge with deleted scenes and alternate versions of characters scarcely recognizable as the people who inhabit the published versions of her stories. O’Connor spent five years... Read More

Doral revokes call to end ‘hostilities’ in Mideast after backlash from Jewish community

After passing a statement calling for peace in the Middle East, Doral political leaders scrambled to douse the firestorm the purely symbolic resolution sparked in their own backyard. In a … Click to Continue » ... Read More

Daily Horoscope for May 22, 2024

General Daily Insight for May 22, 2024 Wise decisions are presently possible. The perceptive Scorpio Moon trines serious Saturn, giving us both emotional depth and containment. When the energetic Sun then trines slow-moving Pluto at 11:14 am EDT, we’re geared toward finding solutions that will work for a long time. Still, we should keep our minds open — as Luna opposes shocking Uranus, a crucial ingredient to our success might be something we would never have expected. Once we’re... Read More

Christian Yelich slugs go-ahead 2-run triple, helps Brewers beat Marlins

MIAMI — Christian Yelich hit a go-ahead two-run triple in the eighth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Tuesday night. William Contreras had two hits and three RBIs, and Willy Adames doubled twice for the NL Central-leading Brewers (28-20). Trailing 5-4, Jake Bauers doubled against Marlins reliever A.J. Puk (0-5) to lead off the eighth and Contreras drew a two-out walk. Yelich then cleared the bases with a drive to deep right-center that put the Brewers ahead... Read More

DOJ Issues First Indictment in Southern Baptist Investigation

A former official at Southwestern Seminary has been charged with falsifying records in the federal probe into the denomination’s abuse response. A former Southern Baptist seminary professor and interim provost has been indicted on a charge of obstructing justice in a sexual misconduct case, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Matt Queen, who was previously an administrator and professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, allegedly gave the FBI falsified notes during... Read More