Religious right likes McCain’s pick
August 29, 2008
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Religious conservatives are excited by Senator John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, says Ralph Reed in The New York
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The GAFCONistas have their say
August 29, 2008
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The GAFCON primates have said a little bit about the Lambeth Conference, as have the border-crossing bishops they ordained. Mark Harris provides excellent analysis.
Seeking answers in a summer of pilgrimages
August 29, 2008
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Why is there so much at stake in the dispute about gay folk and their lives that it threatens to split the church and deepen the rift in American society? Here are some of the responses I have been working on: it isn’t really about sex, it’s all about power. It feels safer to wrangle about sex acts and tease out the sticky threads of disputed interpretations of Leviticus and the authority of the Bible than it is to talk about systems of privilege.
Inexperienced motorists
August 29, 2008
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The first recommendation tonight is: don’t let us waste much time gazing at ourselves. A deepened and enriched sense of God is far more important than increased and detailed knowledge of the self. God, our redeemer and sustainer, is all and does all, and is the one Reality. Life comes with such thoughts. Plunging more deeply in him with faith and love will do more than self-concerned efforts. We can do nothing of ourselves but depress ourselves and get fussy.
Calling on churches in tough economic times
August 28, 2008
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In a Religion News Service article appearing on Crosswalk, Kirsten Campbell discusses the double bind that can hit churches in hard economic times: For faith-based
Greenbelt: what exactly is it?
August 28, 2008
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We’ve done a little bit of reading, searched a few Web sites, but we still don’t quite get this Greenbelt business. The festival (if that’s the right word) drew 20,000 people to a race track in Cheltenham, England, for three days of what seems to have been innovative worship and intriguing conversation–and the Church Times takes is seriously!–so we feel we should understand it better than we do.
Christians studying the ways of Muslims in Nigeria
August 28, 2008
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Bishop Josiah Fearon: “For us in Kaduna State, we realised that to live peacefully, we need to understand the religion of each other and so, we are convinced that the best way to promote peace and encourage it, is to know the well-being of your neighbour and the well-being of your neighbour is dictated by what he or she believes in. The well-being of the Muslim is dictated by Islam and so, we are concentrating on the Christians learning about Islam”.
Clear as mud
August 28, 2008
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At Lambeth’s final press conference, Rowan Williams attempted to offers some clarity on what he means by a moratorium on same sex blessings. A reading of the transcript suggests that in his view, the proposed moratorium on “same sex blessings” is on the authorization of rites for same sex blessings, not on the practice of providing such blessings. But not so fast…
Augustine on patience
August 28, 2008
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Augustine of Hippo’s On Patience. . . confines itself to two questions: where does Christian patience come from and what is its character? . . . Augustine argues that patience has but a single source, the free and unmerited grace of God, and defines patience as that which helps us “endure evils with equanimity so as not to abandon, through a lack of equanimity, the good through which we arrive at the better.”
Bishop Mwamba calls on press to be “gracious and balanced”
August 27, 2008
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From Ecumenical News International via ELO: “The rest of the world needs to know that apart from press coverage in the West, the gay issue
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