Isingoma and the synod delegates “have no way out as all roads are cut off,” Ngadjole said, noting that their only option is to take a diverted route to reach Bunia, a distance of about 124 miles, at their own risk. “Those coming from the invaded area have not yet heard from their families.
Religious people are shown in interviews and film clips only as gullible and fanatic, as fraudulent and nutty. There’s one exception that proves the rule, a Catholic astronomer priest who shows that a scientific worldview can only be post-enlightenment and that therefore the biblical view of creation cannot be seen as scientific. Alas, he gets two minutes.
My five-year-old daughter asked me at breakfast one morning about her bedtime prayers. She wasn’t really sure, she admitted, just what to say to God. (Now this is the sort of opening I like: “Mom, teach us to pray.”)
Listen to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in an interview byTerry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Gordon Atkinson had a conversation with Marcus Borg and in his blog, he introduces “his thinking and explain why he is such a controversial figure, certainly among conservative evangelical Christians, but for many mainline theologians as well.”
A new phenomenon is spreading through the Christian towns and villages of northern Iraq: Christian security forces, organized through their local churches, are manning checkpoints and working with the Iraqi police.
John O’Malley has written “A Spirit of Affirmation” which details the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, which not only modernized the Roman Catholic Church but had a profound effect on how churches of other traditions responded to the modern world and to each other.
A statement from the President of the House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson. The Episcopal Church spent two days in solemn observance and belated repentance for
Dean Sam Lloyd of the \Washington National Cathedral and the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church explore the state of the church in the twenty-first century.
Does the church ‘mean business’? Do we accept that our main business today is with meaning, the struggle to find meaning, and the mission to help people discover the gift of meaning through the good news that has Christ at its heart? Are we still in the business of being saved and saving others? I wonder sometimes because of the negativity or indifference with which many Episcopalians react to the very concept of being saved.