What sort of things do we think are holy? God is holy, so whatever is to do with God is holy too. This leads us very naturally to think about prayer, going to church, acting justly and other spiritual things. All of these are holy and worthwhile, but if we concentrate on them alone, we miss out some very large parts of our lives.
Unable to escape her captors, the young woman falls to the ground, and, after either being hit on the head with a wooden bat or slamming her skull against the concrete, her eyes roll back in her head and she falls unconscious, her thin, soaked body convulsing until it forms just a stiff board. A few declare her dead. Several cheer the rumour, announcing that justice is served.
An Anglican considering going to Rome says, keep your women bishops, and give us the endowment and the buildings.
Having built up the story that Jeffrey John was likely to be the next bishop of Southwark, Jonathan Wynne-Jones of The Telegraph is now saying
Not volunteer opportunities and not openness to all beliefs?
Yes, I know it looks from the Agenda as though there are going to be at least five, but it’s actually one short debate and one very long one, that will take about a day and a half to get through. Let’s deal with the short one first….
Dr John was shabbily treated over Reading. No damage that his consecration may have done compares to the damage done to the church and Dr Williams by its abandonment. Dr John has no presumptive right to the Southwark see. Yet surely neither he nor Dr Williams would have allowed things to get this far if they were not determined to see a different outcome this time.
Our presiding bishop preached in Brisbane, Australia on July 4th. While she was at it our Katharine showed her oceanographer’s teeth, too. Here’s some of
In a recent essay on Benedictine holiness, Professor Henry Mayr-Harting describes it as “completely undemonstrative, deeply conventual, and lacking any system of expertise.” Perhaps the most important thing to emphasize is the “deeply conventual”: the holiness envisaged by the Rule is entirely inseparable from the common life. The tools of the work are bound up with the proximity of other people
Details are emerging that a story we published yesterday via the Changing Attitude blog in England may have been a scam. The story concerned the alleged murder of a youth worker for Integrity Uganda. We published it, in part, due to a quote in the story from Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, whom we know well enough to know that he wouldn’t make up a murder.