Evil II
Mark Ralls writes that Christians surrender the vocabulary of evil at our peril.
Mark Ralls writes that Christians surrender the vocabulary of evil at our peril.
You don’t have to agree with everything Stephen Steinberg writes to find plenty to engage with:
Do we worship God or the words about God? Is the Bible the Word of God, or is that Jesus? Christians have been working out
This morning brings news that the most recent conversations among the Primates meeting in Dublin concern the question of whether there is an Anglican Church or are we “a communion of churches”? There’s much more to the answer of that question than mere linguistic style.
Saint Andrei Rublev was born about 1360 and died in 1430. He was a monk throughout his adult life, first at the Holy Trinity Monastery and later at the Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, where he was buried. He is remembered as being shy and calm, devoted to divine services, meditation and icon painting.
More news and commentary coming out of the death of David Kato and his funeral today.
UPDATED: The BBC and Reuters are reporting that the funeral for David Kato in Nakawala, Uganda, turned chaotic after the local Anglican priest began to berate gay people and refused to bury Kato’s body.
Theo Hobson says that he was just about to give up on organized religion because “all major forms of church were full of illiberal assumptions.” Then he found the Episcopal Church.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has released a statement from Dublin on the death of human rights activist David Kato saying “His murder deprives his