The way in which artificial divisions among leaders are …creating serious obstacles to the mission of God in a place like Yola infuriates me. Nigerian after Nigerian is telling me that while they disagree with me on some issues, there is no reason we cannot still work together. Yet that is not the narrative that is propagated at the highest levels of Anglicanism.
“Am I supposed to ask for their identification before I can give them cookies? This law is hurtful and it’s mean.”
Jesse Zink, an Episcopalian seminarian at Yale Divinity School is journaling his summer travels in sub-saharan Africa on his blog “Mission Minded”. Jesse is a
“We dug up the prayer labyrinth to make this garden.”
“They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry people.”
Co-hosting the consultation five-day conference with the Alliance, the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) set out its blueprint for organisation of the church, and its strategy for development, focusing especially on economic empowerment, education and HIV and Aids.
Jubilee Ministries has awarded 28 Ministries zeroing in on issues of health and food.
Is sponsoring an expensive private school a conflict with deeply held values or an expression of them?
“What the MDGs goes to is the most powerful challenge that exists in the Bible and in which ultimately the claim that the poor you have always with you is actually historically wrong.”
When there’s language about God’s call in Scripture, we may want to resist our contemporary inclination to read everything individualistically and consider that in the context of the story, being called and chosen is usually about becoming part of ( or even leading) a new kind of human community, bearing the cost of this, and becoming in some way an example to the world on God’s behalf.