All creatures great and small
August 28, 2008
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The Humane Society of the United States is announcing its 2008 “All Creatures Great and Small” campaign, which involves a pledge to either switch to
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Christians studying the ways of Muslims in Nigeria
August 28, 2008
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Bishop Josiah Fearon: “For us in Kaduna State, we realised that to live peacefully, we need to understand the religion of each other and so, we are convinced that the best way to promote peace and encourage it, is to know the well-being of your neighbour and the well-being of your neighbour is dictated by what he or she believes in. The well-being of the Muslim is dictated by Islam and so, we are concentrating on the Christians learning about Islam”.
Clear as mud
August 28, 2008
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At Lambeth’s final press conference, Rowan Williams attempted to offers some clarity on what he means by a moratorium on same sex blessings. A reading of the transcript suggests that in his view, the proposed moratorium on “same sex blessings” is on the authorization of rites for same sex blessings, not on the practice of providing such blessings. But not so fast…
Augustine on patience
August 28, 2008
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Augustine of Hippo’s On Patience. . . confines itself to two questions: where does Christian patience come from and what is its character? . . . Augustine argues that patience has but a single source, the free and unmerited grace of God, and defines patience as that which helps us “endure evils with equanimity so as not to abandon, through a lack of equanimity, the good through which we arrive at the better.”
Bishop Mwamba calls on press to be “gracious and balanced”
August 27, 2008
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From Ecumenical News International via ELO: “The rest of the world needs to know that apart from press coverage in the West, the gay issue
Don’t wait: Skill begets skill; skill cross-fosters motivation
August 27, 2008
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James Heckman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, writes on the growing polarization in American society and concludes: The family plays a powerful
In Canada, legal maneuvers over church property
August 27, 2008
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The Diocese of New Westminster has taken steps under the its bylaws to remove clergy who have left the Anglican Church of Canada rather than accepting the decisions of its local and national governing bodies. In the past few months, the Courts in both B.C. and Ontario have issued preliminary findings in similar cases upholding similar actions by two other Dioceses. Attempts to appeal those rulings in both cases have been unsuccessful and costs have been awarded to the Dioceses involved.
Charles Wesley code broken
August 27, 2008
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“At one point in the journal he is talking to the society at Grimsby and goes into block capitals and says ‘I told them I would remain with them as long as they remained with the Church of England but should they ever turn their back on the Church they turn their back on me’.”
Preacher with the hands
August 27, 2008
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I remember very vividly the first time that I ever saw Dr. Gallaudet. I was a candidate for Holy Orders. I do not want to say anything to give anybody pain–certainly not a priest of the Church, whose office it is to minister in the City of New York; but I was wandering about the streets of New York on a summer day–it was in August, I remember–to find, if I might, a church that was open on a Sunday afternoon in August.
I am not a doctor,
but I play one in Sudan
August 27, 2008
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The hardest part for me is when my Sudanese friends trust me to do things that I know are beyond me. Such as when I was asked, at 4 o’clock one morning, to deliver a baby – by Caesarian section. Or when a student asked me to extract his rotting molar. Or when one friend, knowing that I had had an emergency appendectomy while in the United States, decided that meant I was qualified to do the same for one of his relatives.
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