An ongoing lawsuit that claims the US military isn’t willing to take appropriate action in cases of religious discrimination and is overly lax in allowing
In spite of some suing to prevent prayers during the Inauguration and thus mixing the spiritual realm with that of the state, Obama’s transition team is engaged in an unparalleled reaching out to religious organizations in the United States. According to reports there have already been about a dozen meetings of various groups with the transition team.
Perhaps this news will lower the temperature of the controversy surrounding the President-elect’s invitation to Pastor Rick Warren to give the Invocation at his Inaugural
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s message this year will invite his hearers to take a moment and rethink their values in the coming year. Specifically he
Step right up and make your New Year’s resolutions public on this open thread.
Religious people are self-controlled not simply because they fear God’s wrath, but because they’ve absorbed the ideals of their religion into their own system of values, and have thereby given their personal goals an aura of sacredness. Nonbelievers could try a secular version of that strategy.
BBC: On Sunday five bishops questioned the morality of policies and whether people should be urged to spend more. One said Labour was “beguiled by
The Anglican Communion Office website has been very slow to update their directories of diocese to reflect actual leadership of the actual dioceses of Pittsburgh, Fort Worth and Quincy.
The Synod of the Church of England voted last July to move forward with the ordination of women to the episcopate using a so-called “Code of Practice” and turned aside parallel oversight schemes. The proposal released this week in advance of February’s synod includes a scheme of “complementary” male bishops and judicial review for unhappy parishes.
For 15 years members of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation have served food at Our Daily Bread feeding program on Christmas Day so Christians can celebrate