A Methodist minister in Great Britain was planning a communion service where the worshipers would take part via Twitter. Just before the service was to take place, he was asked by senior Methodist officials to wait until the idea could be examined more closely.
Prominent Muslims and Jews from the United States made a pilgrimage to visit two Nazi concentration camps last week. The eight American Imams issued a joint statement condemning anti-Semitism and all religious violence.
When people discuss the rights of lesbians and gays in contemporary U.S. culture, and across religious denominations, the abbreviation “LGBT” is used as a shorthand: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. But do churches really take transgender people into account in their mission and ministries?
New polls suggest that 1 in 4 Americans believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Is this a White House communications problem, or has “Muslim” become a code-word for “hated outsider?”
The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi told the members of the three-day provincial Assembly in Mukono, Uganda that the Anglican Church is “broken” and that the Church of Uganda should participate in it at very minimal levels.
It is good that faith is shadowy. It tempers the light to the dim-sighted eye and prepares the eye for the light. It is written: “By faith he cleanses their hearts” [Ac 15:19]. Faith, therefore does not extinguish the light but protects it. All that which an angel sees clearly, the shadow of faith delivers to me, stored up now in the embrace of the faithful, to be revealed in due time. Is it not expedient to hold that which is obscure when you cannot comprehend it in its nakedness?