NIFCON (the Network of Inter Faith Concerns for the Anglican Communion) is one of the main sponsors of a petition being drawn up asking the government of Pakistan to repeal the law against blasphemy. In recent years the threat of this law has often been often been used in unjust attacks upon the country’s vulnerable Christian minority.
“People are thinking that Islam is an issue in Africa and Asia, but you in the West are sitting on explosives.” What people in the West don’t understand, he said, “is that what Islam failed to accomplish by the sword in the eighth century, it’s trying to do by immigration so that Muslims become citizens and demand their rights.”
An estimated 140,000 people of faith gathered on a national conference call with President Barack Obama yesterday. Sponsored by more than thirty religious denominations and organizations, the call helped launch a massive “40 Days for Health Reform” campaign to mobilize people of faith to press Congress to finish work on health care reform when they return after Labor Day Recess.
Tobias Haller, Mark Harris and the Modern Churchpeople’s Union have all written essays worth reading recently.
More moderate scientists, however — let us call them the accommodationists — still dominate the hallowed institutions of American science. Personally, these scientists may be atheists, agnostics or believers; whatever their views on the relationship between science and religion, politically, spiritually and practically they see no need to fight over it.
The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) adopted “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust” Aug. 19 with a vote of 676 (66.67 percent) to 338 (33.33 percent). The passing of the social statement on human sexuality required a two-thirds vote.
From an op-ed by columnist Kathleen Parker: A comparison of how the media have treated the two presidents and their faith-based programs during the first
It’s hard to think of an interesting story about the Episcopal Church in America because what happens within the Episcopal Church is—frankly, and with deep apologies to all my Episcopalian friends—just not that interesting.
5PM EDT Wednesday, August 19th, a group of faith organizations is hosting a national call in and audio webcast on health care reform and President Barack Obama has accepted the invitation to join the call. Click here to RSVP and get information about listening in.
Wilson was praised for steadfast courage, zeal for justice and boundless energy during her funeral Tuesday at All Saints Episcopal Church. She was the second black woman to practice law in Missouri, a leader of the local NAACP and the organization’s national president from 1975 to 1983.