Demon rum
July 26, 2013
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Mixing religion and alcohol may be dangerous to other people’s health according to a new study of religion, alcohol and violence.
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Has the mission trip become a kind of tourism?
July 26, 2013
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Doug Banister wonders if the mission trip has become a kind of tourism for wealthy Christians who want to do good in exotic places.
The Church as an engine for global development
July 26, 2013
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Kate Sharma, writing in the Guardian, believes that the church is one the best vehicles for human and societal development.
Nothing new under the sun
July 26, 2013
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Luigi Pascali, an economist at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, says that history suggests that Archbishop Welby’s call to drive pawnbrokers out of business by setting up competing church-based credit unions might be the right approach.
Bishop Gibbs on Zimmerman verdict and Detroit bankruptcy
July 19, 2013
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The Rt. Rev. Wendell N. Gibbs, Jr, Bishop of Michigan has issued a statement about the verdict in the Zimmerman trial and the news that the City of Detroit has declared bankruptcy.
The many reasons that people aren’t “religious”
July 12, 2013
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Americans apparently hate to call themselves “religious.” Instead they like to think of themselves as “spiritual,” “faithful,” or “holy.” But why they hate religion varies dramatically.
A slow, painful process leading to death?
July 6, 2013
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Andrew Brown wonders if the Church of England can avoid destroying itself over women bishops and marriage equality.
The UCC to divest fossil fuels stocks. Should the Episcopal Church?
July 6, 2013
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The United Church of Christ has decided to divest itself of fossil fuels stocks or else retain those that meet certain standards. Should the Episcopal Church follow suit?
How to focus unity
July 5, 2013
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Bishop Alan Wilson looks forward to the General Synod just starting up in Church of England. He calls on the members to decide between two visions of unity, “cheesy or real.”
Welby tells Synod that the world out there has changed
July 5, 2013
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In his first presidential address to General Synod, the Archbishop of Canterbury told the church to recognize that that the “cultural and political ground” in Britain is “changing”, and to “accept that there is a revolution in the area of sexuality, and we have not fully heard it”.
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