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Archbishop Ian Ernest: work together in love

September 30, 2008 2 Comments

The proper path for The Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) was to be “transforming agents” for Christ in the world. “Jesus needs us to be his hands to serve, his feet to visit, and voice to speak for Him. This is our task. But very often as a Church we fail at this task. We belong to the Community of suffering and service, of faith, hope and love which carries saving mission to all people.”

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Three-language man

September 30, 2008 No Comments

After various early attempts at a Latin translation of the Bible, in whole or in part, . . . the assignment of bridging the chasm between Latin and the biblical languages in a definitive version fell to Jerome—or, to give him his full proper name, Eusebius Hieronymus—at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century.

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Legitimately scary

September 29, 2008 1 Comment

Iranian students have released a book containing cartoons of the Holocaust, including some depicting hospitalized Jews on respiratory machines attached to canisters of Zyklon B, the gas used to exterminate Jews during World War II. Meanwhile, a British publisher’s house was set afire, after he decieed to publish a novel about the early life of one Muhammad’s wives.

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Canadians to focus on Williams’ request for moratorium

September 29, 2008 No Comments

Archbishop Hiltz said that the diocesan bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, pointed out that it was not for him to rescind the diocese’s rite for the blessing of same-sex relationships. The diocesan synod has to debate the issue. Hiltz said that he’d be “very surprised if they rescind that motion.”

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Is there a role for the Church in the financial panic?

September 29, 2008 2 Comments

Most clergy are not trained in economics. And the last thing the country needs is well-intentioned moralistic advice from poorly-informed people. (See Sentamu, John.) Yet as the financial crisis in the United States deepens, it seems peculiar that neither the Christian left nor the Christian right has had much to say about the ideas and behaviors that brought about our financial panic. Greed isn’t great. But is that the best we have to offer?

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Pastors seek free speech subsidy

September 29, 2008 2 Comments

Yesterday, at the urging of the conservative Allied Defense Fund, some 33 pastors endorsed a presidential candidate (John McCain, presumably, and ironically, given his history

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