With a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, clergy and other religious organizations are donating more to Democratic campaigns than they are to Republican ones, according to an article from Religion News Service distributed on the Pew Forum site. Four years ago, the opposite was true. Barack Obama seems to have garnered the most financial support, according to the article.
The Associated Baptist Press is reporting on an architectural revival, of sorts, among Christians trying to get away from sterile, stadium-like box-shaped megachurches. Tim Blonkvist,
Another announcement that broke over the holiday was that of conservative Anglicans organizing their own global event, as reported in a press release, “Orthodox Primates with other leading bishops from across the globe are to invite fellow Bishops, senior clergy and laity from every province of the Anglican Communion to a unique eight-day event, to be known as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) 2008.”
Father Jake points us to developments at St. Nicholas in Atwater, Calif., a mission in the Diocese of San Joaquin, that transpired on Christmas morning
…the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. He was selected by more than 100 synod members in the Church of England, beating out the Archbishop of Canterbury and former Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who placed second and third respectively.
The icon of Jesus painted by John is his gospel is not a naturalistic rendering. The other gospel writers also created distinctive impressions of Jesus with an artistry wholly unlike modern biography or journalism.