In a Religion News Service article appearing on Crosswalk, Kirsten Campbell discusses the double bind that can hit churches in hard economic times: For faith-based
We’ve done a little bit of reading, searched a few Web sites, but we still don’t quite get this Greenbelt business. The festival (if that’s the right word) drew 20,000 people to a race track in Cheltenham, England, for three days of what seems to have been innovative worship and intriguing conversation–and the Church Times takes is seriously!–so we feel we should understand it better than we do.
The Humane Society of the United States is announcing its 2008 “All Creatures Great and Small” campaign, which involves a pledge to either switch to
Bishop Josiah Fearon: “For us in Kaduna State, we realised that to live peacefully, we need to understand the religion of each other and so, we are convinced that the best way to promote peace and encourage it, is to know the well-being of your neighbour and the well-being of your neighbour is dictated by what he or she believes in. The well-being of the Muslim is dictated by Islam and so, we are concentrating on the Christians learning about Islam”.
At Lambeth’s final press conference, Rowan Williams attempted to offers some clarity on what he means by a moratorium on same sex blessings. A reading of the transcript suggests that in his view, the proposed moratorium on “same sex blessings” is on the authorization of rites for same sex blessings, not on the practice of providing such blessings. But not so fast…
Augustine of Hippo’s On Patience. . . confines itself to two questions: where does Christian patience come from and what is its character? . . . Augustine argues that patience has but a single source, the free and unmerited grace of God, and defines patience as that which helps us “endure evils with equanimity so as not to abandon, through a lack of equanimity, the good through which we arrive at the better.”