Whether or not it chooses to replace its defaced Advent-themed billboard, St. Matthew’s has a potential winner on its hands. Perhaps they owe their vandal a word of thanks.
The post is being filled after its previous holder, George Pitcher, was released last summer for remarks critical of Rowan Williams.
The voters in question weren’t circumspect in their reasoning: if the Communion is indeed a family, certain members are acting like bratty siblings – irrationally and with too much independence – and must bridled.
The number of Christians worldwide has more than tripled in the last 100 years, but this is a number that appears to accompany the global population explosion.
“[S]uburban churches allow the fears of indigenous citizens to rub up against the reality of different ethnicities and cultures in a way that’s dynamic and reconciling.”
Punished by police and held overnight, John Helmiere has a few thoughts on how one might respond when met with blunt force in the midst of calling for peace to prevail.
Archbishop John Hepworth of the Traditional Anglican Communion will step down as of Pentecost. Seems that Archbishop or not, the Catholic culture into which Hepworth was so keen to lead his people has demonstrated intolerance in the case of his accusations about being raped in a Catholic seminary 40 years ago.
Christmas is about “a real pregnancy, a real mother and a real child. It’s about real anxiety, courage and hope”
From the Encyclical letter of the 1878 Lambeth Conference: “First, that the duly certified action of every national or particular Church, and of each ecclesiastical province (or diocese not included in a province), in the exercise of its own discipline, should be respected by all the other Churches, and by their individual members.”
Researchers urge us to give meaningfully, thoughtfully, rather than in large quantities.