“It is our profound concern that the healing and progress of the Diocese are now at risk and so we request that this letter and our request for your concern and support in chartering a way forward in this diocese and to secure Bishop Bennison’s retirement or resignation.”
It will be the first time the head of the Vatican, which earlier this year declared female ordination a “crime against the faith”, shakes hands with a clergywoman.
Johnson set up the group “student volunteer base for earthquake clean up”, calling on his peers to get out and help clear the debris littering Christchurch after New Zealand’s most destructive quake in almost 80 years.
Does happiness rise with income? In one of the more scientific attempts to answer that question, researchers from Princeton have put a price on happiness. It’s about $75,000 in income a year.
We have really tried not to mess around with the descriptions of God in the biblical text. But what we want to see is generous language when it comes to gender. God is above and beyond human gender. “We are not saying God is not masculine. God is also feminine. The problem is trying to use human language to describe the indescribable
Participants in the conference convened by the Anglican Church in Juba urged sustainability of peace and reconciliation between the North and the South irrespective of the referendum outcome.
Can interfaith voices for calm, tolerance and reflection — the love and morality taught by world religions — overcome headlines for a church planning to burn the Qu’ran?
Live as if you made $50,000 a year … and give everything else away. Take a year to surrender yourself.
The Province of Kenya
Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.” If you preached or listened to a sermon on yesterday’s difficult gospel reading, we’d be interested to hear what you made of this very difficult passage.