One little cab ride may not change the tide of interreligious politicking or the convictions of many, but it looks to have opened the door for the few to talk. And that beats keeping silent vigil any day.
Now that the 2nd All Africa Bishops’ Conference is all but ended, a flurry of communications has arrived at our electronic transom.
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Didn’t have the time/will yesterday for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally? Neither did we. But someone did, and found that Beck is positioning himself to receive a mantle he may not be prepared to bear.
“The mission of this grand experiment has been to foster greater intercultural understanding by exposing its participants – young and old, students and faculty – to people and cultures around the world, while providing them with a sea-going classroom in which to study and absorb what they’ve seen and learned,” said Tutu.
Through the lens of the missionary hotbed that is Uganda, Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, reports on the deadly consequences of evangelicals’ antigay exports
. . . “the least Rowan Williams can do is acknowledge the inhumanity of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill while he is at this conference,” said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “His indifference to suffering of LGBT people in Africa and worldwide is a great stain on his legacy.”
Score! Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston gets “assist” in 130 foot hoops shot from the belltower.
We should all, as Christians, reach out in friendship and love to the peaceful Islamic majority and do all in our power to build and strengthen bridges between our faiths. We should also all remember that the violence and hateful behavior of the extremist are not confined to any one religion.
“Even the very building blocks of the cathedral’s dome structure, a trademark design of Vancouver based Canadian Wooden Domes, are a reflection of Inuit tradition – the Building Committee has described them as ‘igloo blocks,’ and calculated that it will take 765 of them to erect the dome structure.”