His job is to try to hold the Anglican church together through its darkest days for centuries. So why on earth did the Archbishop of Canterbury take last summer off to write about Dostoevsky?
The trial court ruled in favor of the local church; the Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the national church. The dispute has now arrived at the Supreme Court.
The “closed heart” is a striking image for our condition. It is as if our selves are normally encased in a hard rind, in a tough shell. Why is this so? Why do we commonly have closed hearts?
Talking with preaching colleagues and with lay people about the parables we’ve heard in church these past few months, I’ve noticed how hard it is to break our habit of interpreting rich landlords, slave owners, kings, and fathers in Jesus’ storytelling as stand-ins for God, even though these authority figures in the parables consistently act foolishly, arbitrarily, or dangerously toward people who are dependent on them for wellbeing.
Speakers at the congress of the World Association for Christian Communicators (WACC) tell members that the Church and the media play an essential role in checking the misuse of power.
Premier Christian Media has produced a thought-provoking resource for churches as they campaign against human trafficking as part of ‘Not for Sale’ according to Christian
The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., who as dean of Washington National Cathedral for 27 years oversaw much of its completion and used his
The Roman Catholic Church wants to declare Cardinal John Henry Newman a saint. They wanted to remove his body to a place where the new saint could be properly venerated. To do this, the body would have to have been separated from the remains of the man Newman wanted to be buried with. After much controversy, they finally opened the grave and found…nothing.
Getting a parish to think of themselves beyond the “four walls” of their church and engaging the community is a critical step of having a vital, active congregation that proclaims Christ. Doing that effectively requires that the congregation nurture their relationship to the community they live in.
… last week there was a move forwards in that a number of congregations returned to their church buildings.