Alex Beam, writing in the Boston Globe, writes with both admiration and wonder at the faith of John Updike. Or more accurately, about Updike’s decision not to make “the leap of unfaith.”
The social bonds of rural communities in Iowa…including churches…are crumbling. Here is how some communities in Iowa are responding.
Here is a round up of news reports from The Church Times and elsewhere about the Primates meeting last week.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preaching at Trinity, Wall Street, at the opening of the 2016 Trinity Institute, with a sermon on Matthew 8, the story of the centurion’s servant.
The Church of England and Church of Scotland have proposed an agreement that would allow the “national” churches in the United Kingdom. Problem is that apparently no one consulted the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has issued a statement announcing that a law firm will conduct an independent investigation of the three senior members of the Episcopal Church staff who were placed on leave last week.
Augusta County, Virginia, schools were closed as a result of a furor stirred by a local church over the use of a state approved curriculum on comparative religion.
Everybody knows that Ian Fleming and John LeCarre based their literary creations on their serving time in British intelligence during World War II. Now we learn that C.S. Lewis also served MI6 during World War II.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry announced that he has placed three members of the senior administrative staff of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society on administrative leave to investigate allegations of possible misconduct. The letter does not state the nature or scope of the allegations. The Presiding Bishop has asked that the investigation continue without speculation.
A film that shows a young person negotiating the tensions between modern life and traditional belief has reignited the uproar over an advertisement encouraging people to pray.