Far too often we have seen Christian healing and the healing provided by the medical community as separate and distinct. In recent decades, though, we increasingly hear people affirm that healing is “both/and”: it is found in both the medical community and the church, it involves both the individual with faith and the medical personnel who see their expert care as part of the resurrection of the forgotten touch
Tracts passed out in a local high school promote hatred and violence, says a Catholic priest. Tough beans, replies Baptist pastor.
Box Turtle Bulletin says that the US State Department will directed embassies to review anti-gay laws and attitudes in their host countries.
As we have previously reported, the House of Lords in the UK voted to permit religious bodies to perform and bless civil unions. Even though
Christian and Muslim leaders have issued a “plan of action” to address religious freedom and peace-building after a three-day summit at Washington National Cathedral.
A new a coalition of Hispanic/Latino Episcopalians is formed.
“Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”
The decline is not helped by a few successful and somewhat deluded media churches, dotted here and there, nor even by the odd successful suburban church. Go to Bradford where evangelical churches struggle, because there is one media church that acts as a kind of vacuum cleaner over what’s left.
When we come to prayer we bring with us, although perhaps unknowingly, all the disquiet that we have imposed on ourselves during the preceding hours or days. If we have not beforehand tried to keep our heart or our body in a state of order, truth and beauty, we cannot expect them to be suddenly transformed, just because we shut our eyes and want to be in the presence of God.
What was once Christ Church is now St. Google’s Church. Why? Is this because I wish to pray to Google? No.