From the CAPA conference, some Bishops continue to fight the sexaulity wars within Anglicanism, some want Africa to missionize the world, and others want the church in Africa to focus on African problems.
The dean of the breakaway Anglican school says that they denied admission to a four year girl with lesbian parents not just because of their teaching about sexuality, but also out of pastoral sensitivity to the child.
When the Rev. Michael P. Milliken becomes the Bishop of Western Kansas, he will remain rector of Grace Church, Hutchinson.
The continent of Africa is facing a future in which climate change will kill more people than traditional causes such as malaria and HIV, according to a Ugandan environmental expert.
“They don’t like that I have two mommies,” Olivia says.
New research from Public Religion Research Institute shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to allowing the proposed Islamic community center and mosque to be built two blocks away from ground zero. However, three-in-four (76%) Americans—including majorities of religious groups across the spectrum—say they would support the building of a mosque in their own local community.
Doctors who described themselves as non-religious were more likely than others to report having given continuous deep sedation until death, having taken decisions they expected or partly intended to end life, and to have discussed these decisions with patients judged to have the capacity to participate in discussions.
Professional theologians have largely lost the ability to address wider audiences. Mimicking those in other academic and specialist sub-cultures, they have developed languages that aren’t accessible or even particularly interesting. Religious leaders have tended to mirror the polarization of the culture at-large, preferring to choose sides in the culture and political wars.
As most clergy stood to clap at speeches critical of homosexuality, Archbishop Williams and two aides, who sat in the front row, were the only ones who remained seated.
In many of these respects, Americans are the most “extreme” Westerners, especially young ones. And educated Americans are even more extremely WEIRD than uneducated ones. “The fact that WEIRD people are the outliers in so many key domains of the behavioral sciences may render them one of the worst subpopulations one could study for generalizing about Homo sapiens,” the authors conclude.