Twenty-nine Provincial Secretaries, including Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, met in Hong Kong for their sixth in a series of informal meetings started in the 1980s.
The signing of a declaration between a group representing Muslims and a leading Christian body in Norway, which supports the mutual right to convert between faiths without harassment, is the first pact of its type in the world, the two bodies have announced.
Anglicans Online has noticed a trend on church notice boards of not only listing when services begin but a new phenomenum of listing the time when services end. They wonder why this is happening….
Scott Gunn at Inclusive Church writes: “Here’s my idea. Let’s talk about rumors, but only for humor and jest. We could use a few laughs in the Communion.”
The Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church is proposing a resolution, to be considered by their General Conference in 2008, condemning the tactics of the Institute for Religion and Democracy and calling for all Methodists to cease working with this organization.
Who has not yawned their way through a sermon or prayer at one time or another? How do you keep your mind from wandering from the divine service to thoughts about grocery shopping later in the day or your next work assignment?
Five nominees, including one lesbian candidate, for the 12th Bishop of Chicago were received from the Bishop Search Committee and announced Aug. 28, 2007 by the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago’s governing body, the Standing Committee, subject to completion of background checks.
Rwandans used to be very proud of their country’s trust in God. There was a saying about wherever a person travels, he or she should “make sure to come to sleep in Rwanda,” because of the perception of safety. That all changed in 2004. “God went and left and never came back.”
The war-scarred church has been the venue for seminars and workshops on peace and inter-religious concerns since it opened as a conflict analysis centre in April 2006. The aim of the project is, “not to repair the church to its original grandeur but to retain the scars of war,” while repairing damaged portions to ensure its structural stability.
Everyone has a blog these days- even Lambeth 2008.