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Religious leaders vs the authoritarian demagogue

September 1, 2016 1 Comment

Religious leaders behind most serious threat to Mugabe rule in Zimbabwe in decades

Season of Creation begins tomorrow with prayer

August 31, 2016 No Comments

Tomorrow is a day of prayer for creation, a day marked first by the Orthodox Church in 1989 and now celebrated ecumenically. The Global Catholic

From Texas to Massachusetts, vocal residents oppose Muslim burial grounds

August 31, 2016 3 Comments

The New York Times reported this week on a Muslim community’s attempt to buy land in a Massachusetts town – to create a cemetery for

Actor, Atheist, Believer: Gene Wilder and his particular faith

August 31, 2016 2 Comments

A day after Gene Wilder died this week (at 83, from complications of Alzheimer’s) Religion News Service published “Gene Wilder’s Most Jewish Moments.” Coverage elsewhere

GAFCON’s UK Task Force welcomes “shadow synod” initiative

August 30, 2016 2 Comments

The Church of England’s latest statistics report 16,000 churches serving a population of over 54 million people, including 32 million Christians.

Congregation petitions for doors to be unlocked

August 30, 2016 No Comments

The community of St James is petitioning the Hearing Panel to unlock the doors of the church.

Marriage rites (and wrongs)?

August 30, 2016 1 Comment

The Rev. Bosco Peters writes about the sticky state of marriage canons in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia.

St. Andrew’s School Boca Raton – mishandling of sex misconduct charges

August 29, 2016 No Comments

St. Andrew’s School Boca Raton is a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools. In May it terminated the head of school and hired

Insights on church attendance: maybe not so grim after all

August 29, 2016 2 Comments

…within that 51 percent, more than half of people said they go more often than they used to—in other words, about quarter of Americans have gotten more active in their religious communities in recent years, not less.

U.S. to back Ghanaian effort to fight child slavery