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Author: Jim Naughton

Is there a role for the Church in the financial panic?

September 29, 2008 2 Comments

Most clergy are not trained in economics. And the last thing the country needs is well-intentioned moralistic advice from poorly-informed people. (See Sentamu, John.) Yet as the financial crisis in the United States deepens, it seems peculiar that neither the Christian left nor the Christian right has had much to say about the ideas and behaviors that brought about our financial panic. Greed isn’t great. But is that the best we have to offer?

Bishop Sauls on the Duncan deposition

September 29, 2008 No Comments

Bishop Stacy Sauls defended the deposition of Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh on the BBC’s Radio 4 Sunday program.

Archbishops’ criticism of financial system continues to reverberate

September 29, 2008 No Comments

“Market freedom has become an absolute, a kind of fundamentalist religion in itself,” Dr John Sentamu said, the Archbishop of York, adding: “You know the joke about how many economists it takes to change a light bulb. The answer is: ‘None. The market will sort it out.'”

Pastors seek free speech subsidy

September 29, 2008 2 Comments

Yesterday, at the urging of the conservative Allied Defense Fund, some 33 pastors endorsed a presidential candidate (John McCain, presumably, and ironically, given his history

Bishop David Beetge has died

September 29, 2008 No Comments

We have received terrible news from South Africa this morning. Bishop David Beetge died on Saturday. He had cancer, but when I saw him at

The San Joaquin precedent

September 29, 2008 1 Comment

Ann Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes: Although much about San Joaquin’s experience is unique, its story is instructive about the problems that may lie ahead for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, which will vote Saturday on whether to join San Joaquin in seceding.

The spiritual adviser and the Public Square

September 29, 2008 No Comments

I grow uneasy –and suspicious– when spiritual advisors talk about their pastoral relationships with candidates Jeremiah Wright’s speech to the NAACP was profoundly distressing and obviously embarrassing to the candidate. I had the same problem with a New York Times front page article a few weeks ago featuring an interview with Sarah Palin’s pastor. Are they doing it with the candidates’ permission? Or if not, whose agenda is being furthered?

Unseen angels

September 29, 2008 No Comments

Sleight-of-hand magic is based on the demonstrable fact that as a rule people see only what they expect to see. Angels are powerful spirits whom God sends into the world to wish us well. Since we don’t expect to see them, we don’t.

Emptying ourselves

September 28, 2008 No Comments

No one can enter into their deepest centre

and pass through that centre into God,

unless they are able to pass entirely out of themselves

Notes to Myself: Persistent Curiosities

September 27, 2008 No Comments

by Robert Epley

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