Here’s a possible vision for the future of Sunday School, when dwindling supplies of money and people may force churches to push their resources together.
“A seemingly simple phrase like, ‘The peace of the Lord be with you,’ turns into a major debate. We end up having to go back to the original texts, some of which are in Hebrew, to try to decipher exactly what the person writing that meant.”
This incident is the latest is a string of statements and revelations that indicate just how lightly many Catholic hierarchs value the lives of the people who sit in their pews and drop their money into the collection basket. The willingness to inflict pain–and in this instance quite possibly death–on the faithful in the name of doctrine is a form of sadism.
Why not end all the waffling? Take some bold steps. Request additional letters of resignation from the members of the Compass Rose Society and the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, to be effective at least until the next Lambeth Conference.
Justin was born in Samaria and tells us how he came to Christian faith in a little piece of autobiography which is also a parable of his position in the revelation/reason debate—in fact it may be no more than a parable. He tells us that he travelled to Ephesus for his higher education and had a series of disappointments.