An announcement out of the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority and of Israel have agreed to
The blogosphere continues to debate the interview of the Archbishop of Canterbury with Emel, a Muslim lifestyle magazine published by The Times Online. Archbishop Rowan
BBC Radio 4 is currently airing From Calvary to Lambeth on their Religion and Ethics program. According to the web site: Michael Buerk reports on
Faith bloggers — uncountable voices who contest, confess and consider religious beliefs, doctrines and denominational politics in their posts… U.S. Christians may be among the most vociferous of the watchdogs, philosophers and ecclesiastical groupies.
…two hours of encouragement, worship, and fellowship, acknowledging the deep imperfections of our country but refusing to surrender to despair—and recognizing that churches, Episcopal and other, can be a bastion of privilege or a beacon of hope.
Church youth group members in Reno, Neveda, devised a project last year that became such a success they are doing it again this Christmas. Moved
Ex-nurse Elizabeth Edmunds, mother of six and grandmother of five, is asking every cell phone user on the planet to put their minds and mobiles into silent mode for three minutes at 10am GMT, in a mission to demonstrate the world-changing power of silence and stillness.
As proof of his potency in Washington, one need only look at the crowd that Bono, 47, draws one fall evening … on Capitol Hill. Surrounded by administration officials and Hill staffers — Democrats and Republicans — and musicians from Mali, he mixes easily with these folks, most of whom he knows and greets by first name.
The waffling of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the manipulation of meetings by some bishops, and the lame rhetoric of those who have made a cottage industry out of doom and gloom prophecies has to be faced. For too long we have all been watching this soap opera called Anglican leadership and wondering when the adults would come back into the room to make the kids play nice.
In the world of his day, Benedict’s monks would go to bed at 6:00 p.m., so that after eight full hours of sleep they would awaken at 2:00 a.m. They would thus start the day in the dark, and the slow coming of the dawn would be a symbolic daily reminder of the movement from dark to light,