What started as a simple service trip for a handful of women who had bonded as they all went through the Guatemalan adoption process at the same time has snowballed into Helping Mayan Families, an effort that raised more than $30,000 worth of supplies to help provide free medical and veterinary clinics, Christmas baskets of food, and toys, clothes, and shoes to 1,000 poor indigenous families.
When I first started reading about the Buddha’s life, I was disappointed to learn that the existence of God was one of the subjects on which he declined to make a definitive comment. After the last couple of years of amusing but unproductive pantomime debate (“oh yes he does, oh no he doesn’t”), I am beginning to get a sense of how not answering may well have been an enlightened response.
Mr. Shugairi and others like him have succeeded by appealing to a young audience that is hungry for religious identity but deeply alienated from both politics and the traditional religious establishment, especially in the fundamentalist forms now common in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Church Times reviews the year of news from a Church of England point of view:
Amid the ashes and the rubble, one icon of Mount Calvary remains standing, a silent symbol of salvation and triumph: the wrought-iron cross that was
Lionel Diemel reports some success in his campaign for the Anglican Communion Office to update the listings of bishops for dioceses in the US. The
Third District Court of Appeal Justice Rodney Davis is leaving the judiciary after 25 years to become an Episcopal priest…Davis, 59, explained that he was
Statement from Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, on the death of Helen Suzman Friday 2 January 2009 On behalf of the Anglican Church
Matthew Parris, an atheist, argues that only Christianity can save Africa from “the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset.”
Religious leaders have issued statements on the war in Gaza, calling on participants and world community to cease the violence and return to negotiations for