For the boy choristers of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Christmas is not about angling for video games or iPods, but parsing each note in Handel’s Messiah, performing before thousands of people — and wondering when their voices will change.
The holidays can be some of the most trying times for children of offenders . . . “Our goal is to let the children and the families know that they are not forgotten.”
From the European Union, the Church of Scotland, the Episcopal Church of Brazil, and Lambeth Palace there was news today of three direct statements condemning the Uganda anti-homosexuals bill, and one indirect statement.
While much of the holiday mood centers around joy and happiness, but there is a good percentage of people coming to terms with the death of a loved one.
One of the great ironies of Oral Roberts’ life was that he could not heal his own broken hip.
Washington University in St. Louis is establishing a center that will explore the role of religion in politics, thanks to a $30 million gift from the Danforth Foundation.
As Reinhold Niebuhr noted in his critique of “American exceptionalism,” the doctrine of original sin is not only “empirically verifiable” but especially important for a young nation that tends to ignore the lessons of history through naïve faith in its own goodness that remains blind to the ambiguities and pitfalls of power.
I am of a strong opinion that the day on which we unite heart and soul, and turn our attention to knowledge and improvement, that day the hissing and reproach among the nations of the earth against us will cease. And even those who now point at us with the finger of scorn, will aid and befriend us.