Dr Wright, who will be 62 this autumn, is returning to the academic world, in which he spent the first twenty years of his career, and will take up a new appointment as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Political tension has so deeply penetrated life in this southern African country that when Tendai Mahachi kneels down to receive communion he is making a
“Each and every one of you is a shepherd”
“I feel the Earth has been given to us to care for,” Stravers said. “As people of faith, we have a responsibility to be participants in doing what we can to keep further destruction from happening.
Many of us want a better relationship with God and a more fulfilling life, but are we also willing to admit our limitations, struggles, disappointments, and longing? Spiritual growth is truly possible; God is already at work drawing you closer to him and transforming you…
It is in the liturgy that we are able to enter into another consciousness, probe a deeper reality, strive for a sense of transcendence which lifts us above the mundane, and in the words of psalmist, sets us on a rock that is higher than ourselves.
Legislative body “moves in principle to adopt the statement on ordination provided that any gay and lesbian (takatapui) candidates/ordinands are carefully and prayerfully selected, supported and encouraged through their discernment process.”
Nowhere in any of the Rio Grande material were the candidates to respond directly to the question of homosexuality in the church, though Vono’s answers often do reflect a sense of how the issue has shaped the conflicts currently held by the wider Communion. And as anyone with an Internet connection can find out, his sympathies on any number of questions have already been made plain.
Citing a question posed recently in a Newsweek cover story titled “What Would Mary Do? How Women Can Save the Catholic Church from Its Sins,”
The feed is piping beautifully into Twitter, so we’re not sure why Facebook is having a lovely off and on relationship with it. Resetting it last Sunday worked until… Monday. So again, it’s quiet in Facebook. So we’re asking a question this week, just in case it’s still not working next week. What are your favorite pages and applications in Facebook? Who are your favorite people/entities to follow on Twitter–and why?