The Archbishop of Canterbury has responded quickly and positively to an open letter from moderate Muslim leaders saying that it is a call to righteousness
The outgoing Anglican archbishop of Nigeria’s Kaduna state, Josiah Idowu-Fearon, explains why many Nigerian Christians have such profoundly negative views about homosexuality, but at the
Most people don’t even have shoes in Bishop Anthony Poggo’s Anglican diocese in southern Sudan. His people in the Diocese of Kajo Keji struggle with
The definitions of compromise include: “coming to terms, or arrangement of a dispute, by concession on both “and “adjustment for practical purposes of rival courses of action, systems or theories, conflicting opinions or principles, by the sacrifice or surrender of a part of each.” These sound a lot alike, don’t they? And yet they are different
Teresa of Avila taught us to pay attention to the potential of our humanity and to the process of growing into the fulfillment of our baptismal promises. Openness to God’s spirit at work in our lives can lead to the transformation of our desires.
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Religious leaders have always known that human beings, despite our best intentions, can and will be led astray by temptation. A recent journal article offers
In the New York Times earlier this week, Slavoj Zizek, the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, defended the Chinese Governemtns recent efforts to regulate religion–including Order No. 5, a law covering “the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism.” One of Zizek’s more provocative arguments is that even in the West religion is largely becoming a mere matter of culture, rather than faith.
The Metropolitan Community Church was founded in 1968 as a church home for the GLBT faithful who otherwise had no welcoming church home. With a change in attitude in many mainline congregations, however, the future of the Church may be in doubt.
The soul that truly loves God loves all good, seeks all good, protects all good, praises all good, joins itself to good people, helps and defends them, and embraces all the virtues: it only loves what is true and worth loving.