Odds on favorite?
February 3, 2012
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The bookies are already setting odds on who might succeed Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury.
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On reading the Bible
February 3, 2012
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The Rev. George Clifford says that perhaps reading the Bible indiscriminately and only as a devotional tool de-values the Bible, hurts the church, and inadequately prepares Christians.
Update on Virginia property settlement
February 3, 2012
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Henry D.W. Burt II reported to the Council (Convention) of the Diocese of Virginia last week about “the efforts… to recover Episcopal properties for the mission of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia.”
Three cheers for the conversation between science and faith!
January 27, 2012
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Our own Nick Knisely, Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Pheonix, Arizona, talks about the breathless news reports that physicists were ready to announce that they’d discovered, at long last, the Higgs Boson – the so-called “God Particle.” It turns out that the actual announcement was not nearly as exciting.
Faith, Myth and Star Wars
January 27, 2012
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Liel Leibovitz writes in the Tablet why George Lucas’ new film Red Tails is forcing him to look at the original Star Wars trilogy in a new light.
A new black theology that recovers ancient texts and forumlae
January 27, 2012
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Jonathan Tran reviews three books that he says redefine both black theology and challenges many assumptions white theologians hold about the relationship between race and the theological enterprise.
Birth registration as a basic human right
January 27, 2012
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The International Anglican Family Network (IAFN) has launched a global campaign to register births. The network is calling on Anglican churches to partner with government and other agencies to ensure that babies born in 2012 and after are registered.
For CofE Synod, it’s decision time on women bishops
January 27, 2012
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Thinking Anglican’s has a link to the Church Times article, now peeking out from behind the paywall, about what is before the Synod next month.
Montana religious leaders work to save a man from execution
January 21, 2012
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Eighty clergy and religious leaders, including the Episcopal Bishop of Montana, held news conference on Thursday in Great Falls, Montana, urged the state’s House of Representatives to pass an abolition bill that has already cleared the Senate.
Suppressed “Osborne Report” released
January 21, 2012
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“Issues in Human Sexuality(1991) has been treated as a discussion document by some; as the “mind of the Church at this time” by others; and as the “rule” of the Church by yet others…. The true listening process, called for by the (1989) Osborne report, has yet to happen.
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