The Doctrine of Discovery was a principle of international law developed in a series of 15th century papal bulls and 16th century charters by European monarchs. It was essentially a racist philosophy that gave white Christian Europeans the green light to go forth and claim the lands and resources of non-Christian peoples and kill or enslave them.
“We want to give a postcard that [Museveni] can send to his friend Barack Obama,” Ssempa said in front of posters saying “Africans Unite Against Sodomy” and “Barack Obama Back Off”.
Charles Gore, who was certainly one of the most influential theologians of the time, used the phrase “extension of the Incarnation” in order to express the relationship between the event of the Incarnation and the continuing life of the Church.
Chris Blattman: David Yanagizawa, an economics job market candidate from Stockholm University, uses Rwanda’s hilly topography to look at the effect of the Mille Collines
While the movement towards women bishops is stalled in England because the revision committee missed their deadline, The Episcopal Church in Scotland moves towards the election of a new Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway for which one of the three finalists is a woman.
USA Today reports that churches lag well behind the rest of society when it comes handicapped accessibility and barrier-free design.
Updated. Fr. Frank Logue, Vicar of King of Peace Episcopal Church in Kingsland, Georgia, shares this video reflection in response to the question “Where is God in the earthquake?” Also, here are some prayers, a hymn and a litany for Haiti.
Conservative former-Episcopalians may be impressed by the piety and theological purity of their African counterparts, but it can be shocking when they see what happens when American culture wars are exported.
The Episcopal Church has launched a web-page that brings together the church’s response to the earthquake in Haiti in one location.
Mysteries aren’t just something we haven’t figured out yet. Mysteries evade our comprehension in principle, because they involve the living God. Even the Scriptures are a mystery. Without faith and the Holy Spirit, they are just dead words on a page.