The problem of theodicy: In the face of disaster, God is either incapable of acting and is therefore impotent, or God chooses not to act and is therefore indifferent to human suffering. An all-powerful and loving God would not permit such a disaster. Pundits everywhere are pointing either to irrelevance of faith in God or looking for some way to explain why God might want to punish the Haitians.
But the most venerable [Nikon] was overcome with a great wish, with faith, and remaining continuously in this state, desired to see with his own eyes the church completed and decorated; so he quickly gathered painters, very great men, superior to all others, and perfect in virtue,
“You have no idea how much that means,” … “They’re going to be blessed for doing this, I’ll tell you that.”
As the environmental minister at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, Ms. Bingham is sought after by more than just Vote Solar.
The Rt. Rev. Peter Imasuen, bishop of the Diocese of Benin, who was kidnapped 5 days ago has been freed. Nigerian news Vanguard reports:
Simon Sarmiento at Thinking Anglicans has a scoop on the ACNA resolution.
“When people involve the whole body, they access information they cannot access through their own thinking”
Author, teacher, and activist Howard Zinn has died, may he rest in peace and rise in glory.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Presiding Bishop visit the United Nations
St. Thomas was a huge heavy bull of a man, fat and slow and quiet; very mild and magnanimous but not very sociable; shy, even apart from the humility of holiness; and abstracted, even apart from his occasional and carefully concealed experiences of trance or ecstasy.