Joel Hunter, a major voice in the evangelical movement in the United States has agreed to offer up the closing prayer at the Democratic convention. He’s doing this, in part because, in his mind, Obama is the most pro-life candidate running for president this year.
A former pastor and former meteorologist is working to drum up interest in a nation-wide effort to pray to God to let rain fall on
Bishops in the Church of England have published a letter in response to concerns raised by a number of Anglo-Catholics there who strongly object to
According to projections released yesterday by the US Census bureau, the racial makeup and age distribution of America’s population is about to undergo some important
Tonight in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, the flag of the United States will be carried by one of the nations newest citizens, Lopez Lomong. Lomong has only been a US citizen for 13 months, having immigrated as child from the Sudan where he was one of the “lost boys”, a forced migration of children caused by war and the persecution of christians and their communities in that nation.
Earlier this week we covered the controversy surrounding the release of letters by the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that his private beliefs on the sanctity of same-sex unions were at odds with the official position of the Lambeth Conference. The Archbishop has released a statement in response.
The demographic makeup of the evangelical movement within American christendom is changing. The driver of this change appears to be the assimilation into evangelicalism of large numbers of immigrants from around the world. Their presence is effecting the way evangelicals as whole view the relationship between Church and State, but it’s also serving to reinforce many of the existing social views of present evangelicalism.
Lionel Deimel, a lay person in the Diocese of Pittsburgh who is opposed to efforts to realign the Episcopal Diocese and remove it from the Episcopal Church, and perhaps from a connection with the Archbishop of Canterbury, has posted his analysis of the latest filing by that diocese in response to a lawsuit brought by one of the congregations.
Jim Mathes, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, had a meeting over breakfast with Bishop Gregory Venables, Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone. After an apology was offered on the part of Bishop Venables, both bishops have committed themselves to trying to find a way to resolve the tensions over “incursions” in the Diocese of San Diego.
What I’m pretty certain about is that explaining patiently and in great detail why the other side is wrong isn’t going to get us anywhere. It hasn’t as yet, and I’m pretty confident that we can project the present success rate well into the future. So what should we do?