Writing as chairman of the Western Cape Religious Leaders Forum, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Primate of the Anglican Church of South Africa has asked President Kgalema Motlanthe to reconsider the decision to deny a visa to the Dali Lama.
The survey found only two ways most people said they were somewhat or very willing to “receive information” about Jesus: 63% would hear it in a “personal conversation with a family member,” or with a friend or neighbor from the church (56%
Until he states clearly that powerful people in his own Communion don’t believe human activity contributes to global warming, and that he appeases these people so that they won’t split the Communion over the issue of homosexuality, he has little credibility on this matter.
Only 4% said they would attempt to change a client’s sexual orientation, but when asked if they would help curb homosexual feelings some 17% – or one in six – said they had done so.
A scholar argues that March Madness and other spectator sports are the opiate of the masses.
Some baffling discoveries led Bernard d’Espagnat to believe all creation has a wholeness and interrelatedness… One of these is entanglement, the way that paired subatomic particles remain linked even if they move far apart, so that experimenting with one automatically effects the other without any apparent communication between them.
Philip Pullam has debated with, among others, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, the local atheist, Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Of the last, he says, with unmistakable awe in his voice: “Oh, I would not dare take my life in my hands by arguing with him. He is far too clever for me – I am a storyteller and that’s the beginning and end of it.”
And alert Peter Akinola while you are at it.
In one example of how clergy are attempting to use technology and popular culture to reach out to the young, Gardner is constructing a monthly sermon using songs from the iPods of her students, rather than biblical excerpts from a lectionary, as her texts. In her first three efforts, she has attempted to extract moral lessons from the lyrics of Kanye West, Nickelback, and India.Arie.
The Consultation is a potent coalition of 13 independent organizations within the Episcopal Church committed, in the words of its Platform for the 2009 General Convention, “to peace with justice.”