A spokesman for the Anglican Communion Office told CEN “Canon Prof McIntosh is a canon residentiary of Durham and is licensed as a priest in the Church of England. So he is not prevented from being a member of Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.” (Even though he is American and authored “To Set Our Hope on Christ.”)
Eight Muslim youth in a car heading to a wedding were attacked on January 7 after they took a wrong turn and ended up in a Christian village in Barkin Ladi. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the following day the Nigerian army exhumed and returned to their families the corpses of five of them from shallow graves near the village. The three others remain missing. The following morning, January 8, Muslim youth in Jos indiscriminately attacked Christians.
The links today relate to The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Communion: Bishop Senyonjo writes ABC; Bishop Mark Sisk interviewed by Theo Hobson; Connecticut Supreme Court hears property dispute; Seabury Western and the Kellogg School partner.
Traditionalists argue that graveyards are places of peace and contemplation and those who visit to lay flowers on Mum’s grave shouldn’t have to negotiate their way past piles of soft toys or be disturbed by the cacophony of competing wind-chimes. A public graveyard cannot ‘allow’ the unbridled shriek of competitive grief, because it’s a shared space and your way of mourning may detract from someone else’s. There has to be consideration for others.
Since the Bible never offers anything like a straightforward set of teachings about marriage, desire, or God’s perspective on the human body, the only way to pretend that it does is to refuse to read it. If we do take the time to read the Bible, we are likely to discover that the biblical writers do not agree with us, whatever version of sexual morality we are seeking to promote.
In the current edition of The New Yorker Lawrence Wright reports on the Church of Scientology. Tuesday, Terry Gross interviewed Wright on Fresh Air. Wright
How many of us asked the deepest philosophical questions of our lives when we were children, and shelved them once we were adults and didn’t have them time for them? And how many of us have anesthetized ourselves against the pain of seeing injustice of the world, injustice that even as children when we were well aware of?
People think they can confine lack of forgiveness to a particular event, a special case. You cannot, not in the end. Forgiveness is total. There can be no exceptions. No matter how justified the case, lack of forgiveness is never justified. And you cannot get away with it. . . . If we do not forgive, the evil remains in us and can ultimately destroy us. When we are unforgiving we must pray continually for the gift of mercy