The New York Times Magazine is filled with ideas from 2008. One is a device for doing carbon penance: Annina Rüst, a Swiss-born artist-inventor, wanted
Bishop Mark Dyer offers an image of the church hosting a giant “Rummage Sale” every 500 years – a sale where that which no longer serves the work of the Spirit is cleared away to make room for fresh expressions of ministry. What might the church might have to let go of, for the sake of new life?
Libby Purves, in The Times, expressed the disappointment of many kindly disposed observers at this early stage of Williams’s pontificate when she wrote: “Rowan Williams seemed like a wild card, a holy man from the West come to revive the Faith. Alas, the dreadful suspicion grows that he is just another Archbishop of Canterbury.”
A new congregation in the Diocese of Arizona is focusing on reaching out to young people who are headed to prison, in significant danger of doing so, or who have just been released. The Congregation of St. Jude’s is attempting to create a community of support gathered around Christ’s altar that will give these young people the power they need to turn their lives around.
Avery Dulles died today at Fordham University. He was 90 years old. Cardinal Dulles was an adult convert to Roman Catholicism and known as virtual ambassador between factions within Roman Catholicism.
Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Anglican Communion has a suffered so much neglect over the years that without significant repairs, it’s in danger of being forced to close large sections of the Cathedral for safety reasons.
During the week more information has emerged about the plans of the proposed new Anglican Province for North America being urged by those who disagree with the direction of the existing Anglican provinces on that continent. The Archbishop of Canterbury has told the leadership of GAFCON that he will neither support or block its formation. Also there are now some independent numbers about the size of the potential province.
“As late as the 19th century, the Catholic Church rejected the right to religious freedom. In the course of World War II, the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church came to be one of religious freedom’s greatest allies. But the clock seems to be ticking backwards.”
Richard Cizik, the Vice-President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, has been forced to resign as a result of his comments that he is “shifting” his views on same-sex marriage.
The blogger formerly known as the Salty Vicar and Padre Mambo has returned to the fray and now lives at The Divine Latitude whence comes this essay on what Barack Obama’s victory can teach the mainline churches.