More moderate scientists, however — let us call them the accommodationists — still dominate the hallowed institutions of American science. Personally, these scientists may be atheists, agnostics or believers; whatever their views on the relationship between science and religion, politically, spiritually and practically they see no need to fight over it.
Neuroscientists argue that noble ideas such as compassion, altruism, empathy and trust are really evolutionary adaptations that are now fixed in our brains. Our moral rules are actually instinctive responses that we express in rational terms when we have to justify them
As America’s leading Christian denominations are once again feuding and splitting over whether they should allow gays and lesbians to marry, or ordain them as clergy, is it a miracle there are any gay Christians? Given Christianity’s history of exclusion and often outright homophobia … why do homosexuals bother staying, not to mention believing?
All four presentations in the Diocese of Washington’s evangelism series are now available online. The presenters were Brian McLaren, Dean Ian Markham and Professor David Gortner of Virginia Theological Seminary and the Rev. Terry Martin, better known to some of you as Father Jake.
The bishop uses language in a way which abuses LGBT Anglicans. He categorises some of us as ‘non-celibate homosexuals’. This is equivalent to calling married people ‘non-celibate heterosexuals’. It is a deeply offensive way of describing people.
Changes in responsibilities at the Episcopal Church’s government relations office in Washington, D.C., have been announced, and the search for a director for advocacy has been temporarily suspended, according to an August 11 press release from the Office of Public Affairs.
That May survey indicating that a majority of Americans now consider themselves “pro-life” appears to have been a statistical outlier. But you wouldn’t know that from the news coverage.
Stained-glass figures of war heroes – from Richard the Lion-Hearted to Nathan Hale – look down on Linda Strating as she addresses her tour group on its last stop, the War Memorial Chapel of Washington National Cathedral.
Bishops Gene Robinson and Jane Holmes Dixon joined the Rev. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance this week on his radio program State of Belief.
Action in Montgomery (AIM) a congregation-based advocacy group in Montgomery County Maryland, has joined with the 17 other groups in the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation in a campaign to cap credit card interest rates called 10 percent is enough.