There has been a lot of unintelligent response to Archbishop Justin Welby’s admission last week that he sometimes wonders whether God exists. Writing for The
The meaning of the word reconciliation, as the word is frequently used in church circles, has always made me uneasy for reasons I couldn’t define
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post writes: Two new major polls out this week show Americans divided down the middle on questions such as whether
Writing for Religions News Service, Autumn Miles reflects on the negative role the church played in her experience of domestic violence.
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury told an interviewer that he has moments when he doubts the existence of God. John Bingham of the Telegraph
In the OpTalk section of The New York Times’ website, Hanna Kozlowska writes:
A. O. Scott, the chief movie critic of The New York Times has written an intriguing essay for the paper’s magazine, in which he suggests
Cathy Lynn Grossman of Religion News Service writes: U. S. religious congregations are marching to their own drums now more than ever. The National Congregations
I don’t mind a Presiding Bishop with authority. Someone has to mind the shop. While the DMFS should not be in the business of micromanaging the work of dioceses and parishes, there are certain functions of a central office that needs to be managed and the PB is the logical one to be doing this work.
“What I was trying to describe, one of the most powerful images of the 11th, that I’d read in the paper, some of the people coming down were talking about the emergency workers who were ascending. And you know, that was just an image I felt left with, after that particular day. The idea of those guys going up the stairs, up the stairs, ascending, ascending.”