Tag: Opinion pieces

The National Cathedral represents a different model, and perhaps a different era, in church-state relations.

The Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune says that if Pope Benedict were to ask her what he should do about the scandal of child sexual abuse in his church, this is what she’d tell him.

“… without beauty, a people perish, whether that people be a polity or a communion of faith or a family of kin.”

Love. Treat others as you would have them treat you. If you feel you are a child of God, then honor your common and equal status with others as children of God. Except … if they are women and therefore not qualified to perform the holiest sacraments of the church. Except if two members of the same sex engage in long, committed and faithful love; God may be love, but this love is ungodly.

Statements from: C of E Bishop Scott-Joynt; Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth; and the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu. They all agree with the pope, and muse about natural law and such.

Simon Tisdall, foreign affairs writer for the Guardian has an end-of-the-year list of international leaders that “messed up the most last year.” On his list

What is the cause for the decline in the West in membership and respect for the church? Should the church hold firm to tradition? Or

John Allen blogs on National Catholic Reporter about the myopia of both his Roman Catholic tradition and many Christians in deciding what really matters to

Russell Moore, Dean of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: I’m not offended by people disagreeing me on this. I’m just stunned by the reason they