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,
If you could express what the world would look like if it were a community of only 100 people, what would it look like? This
The new religion correspondent at the Guardian, Riazat Butt, has mixed feelings about the slow fracture of the Anglican Communion. In a column in Religious
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Drenched in Grace was “A celebration and recovery of the traditional breadth and diversity of Anglicanism. The time has come for us to re-articulate our theological credentials as Anglicans, for whom inclusiveness, acceptance and listening to other points of view and tradition are not optional extras, but central to our Christian identity.”
The Sunday Times chose to interpret the interview as an assualt on the United States as the “worst” imperialist nation, an accusation not made in the interview. Meanwhile, John Bolton, a former US ambassador known for his neocon views, launched a vitriolic attack on the archbishop and all critics of the US-led war on BBC Radio 4 Today.
Episcopal bishop John Bryson Chane of Washington recently visited Iran to discuss the points of contact between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and found among the
Tutu speaks of a loving God whose divine intention for us is liberation. He speaks of a God who loves us as we are, yet calls us far beyond where we are to do God’s work and live a life emulating God. We are to combat injustice, oppression, evil, “those aberrations of divine will,” and live lives where the norm is the good, love, compassion, laughter, generosity, caring.