Voting and political participation are acts of Christian stewardship, in which citizens can engage in a common conversation about the future of our nation and the world.
There is a huge amount of animus toward Islam among the voting public — a poll last year by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 45 percent of Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who was Muslim.
The level of religious service attendance had no effect on choice of candidate by race, according to the survey. However, spiritual affiliation, view of the Bible and the racial composition of congregations did, he said.
First woman to become a Church of England Archdeacon thanks Dawn French in Vicar of Dibley for paving the way for acceptance of women priests.
In this time of extreme violence against Christians in Iraq, the Rt. Rev. Michael Lewis, The Anglican Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, whose diocese
Communion, the central ritual of most Christian worship services and long a members-only sacrament, is increasingly being opened to any willing participant, including the nonbaptized, the nonbeliever, and the non-Christian.
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And we are seeing also the manifestation of another of nature’s cruel aspects: the greed and folly of human nature. A society built on the acquisition of material possessions, constructed around the beliefs of those who tell us that it is possible to buy now and pay later; that what’s theirs is ours and what’s ours is theirs – but please can they have what’s theirs back now. But we can’t give it back because it was never ours in the first place.
We must act as the guardians of God’s vision for God’s world, continuing as ones who can be counted on to stand up and speak up, not only when faced with big critical situations, but on a day to day basis. Live the promises made at baptism every day.
As an atheist, Ms. Norman felt indignant about what she considered an intrusion of religious dogma into public policy. So she decided to hold a rally of like-minded nonbelievers, who might variously describe themselves as atheists, humanists, freethinkers or secularists. By various polls, such people accounted for nearly one-quarter of Colorado’s citizens.