The conflict between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian [primarily Anglican] and animist south claimed 1.5 million lives. UN special envoy to Sudan Ashraf Qazi said the Abyei border ruling would pave the way for the 2005 peace deal to be implemented as a whole.
Anglican Information has sent a fresh email in the on-going saga concerning the Diocese of North Malawi [Central Africa] and the unfilled position of diocesan
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a letter to the church about General Convention, which was held July 8-17 at the
As I said during the floor debate, I absolutely agree with every word of the resolution itself. Even so, I was convinced that the actual effect of D025 across the Anglican world would be to weaken the bonds of our worldwide Church and, more importantly, to compromise our international mission and ministry in the very places that need us so very badly—and we so need them. – The Rt. Rev. Shannon Johnston
If you’re a layperson in a congregation that’s experiencing decline, whether the congregation thrives is ultimately up to you and the other members. Your pastor can teach, guide, lead, support, inspire, even cajole. But in the end, congregational health is a function of how people in the congregation relate to one another, to God, and to their community.
He took this policy on himself. He crafted it and designed it, and actually pushed it far further than any Archbishop of Canterbury should have been able. What lies behind this policy is not his apparent liberalism, because in the end (and not unlike Gorbachev’s outlook) Rowan Williams was and is a Catholic: almost Orthodox in much spirituality and even Roman leaning in ecclesiology.
God’s beauty is not a pleasure reserved for great saints and card-carrying mystics, religious geniuses who speak in blank verse. The most tongue-tied, feet-on-the-ground believer is capable of getting a kick out of God—and needs to do so.