The Guardian has two opinion pieces this week on attempts by fundamentalists to censor books. Philip Pullman: When I heard that my novel The Golden
If I have followed his reasoning, he is claiming that since “we all” – i.e. “you Muslims” – have not embraced the golden rule, they must themselves be treated as they treat others, and Christians can no longer preach peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance.
The standing committee of the Diocese of Quincy has recommended that the diocese seek realignment with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone based in Argentina, while continuing as a member of the Common Cause Partnership….Bishop Ackerman, who is on sabbatical, will be back in time to preside at convention, which is scheduled to meet Nov. 7-8.
The Messiah has come. Not with a bail out to preserve a failing temple economy, but to offer a whole new economics of salvation. For the Gospel economics of salvation is not capitalism, or socialism, or religious hypocrisy. It’s grace.
Then the queen asked saint Remi, bishop of Rheims, to summon Clovis secretly, urging him to introduce the king to the word of salvation. And the bishop sent for him secretly and began to urge him to believe in the true God, maker of heaven and earth, and to cease worshipping idols, which could help neither themselves nor any one else.
The Alban Institute’s topic of the week is planning in the congregational setting. Gill Rendle and Alice Mann write: Planning can be challenging in the
A few weeks ago I posted this status update: “Heidi finds it curious that when she visits other people’s profiles not as many of their friends post status updates. Is she a SU magnet? Theories welcome.”
After various early attempts at a Latin translation of the Bible, in whole or in part, . . . the assignment of bridging the chasm between Latin and the biblical languages in a definitive version fell to Jerome—or, to give him his full proper name, Eusebius Hieronymus—at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century.
Iranian students have released a book containing cartoons of the Holocaust, including some depicting hospitalized Jews on respiratory machines attached to canisters of Zyklon B, the gas used to exterminate Jews during World War II. Meanwhile, a British publisher’s house was set afire, after he decieed to publish a novel about the early life of one Muhammad’s wives.
Archbishop Hiltz said that the diocesan bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, pointed out that it was not for him to rescind the diocese’s rite for the blessing of same-sex relationships. The diocesan synod has to debate the issue. Hiltz said that he’d be “very surprised if they rescind that motion.”