Paul Harvey This won’t be shocking news to a lot of readers of this blog, but an interesting column nonetheless: Charles Blow, ” Rise of the Religious Left ,” in yesterday’s NY Times . He begins: Which political party’s members are most likely to believe that Jesus will definitely return to earth before midcentury
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Rise of the Socially Conservative Religious Left
Mythology, Media and the Future of Hinduism Huffington Post (blog) The gods of Hinduism have never been up there in some cold palace playing cruel whimsical games of fate with us humans. Instead, they have taken their place …
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Mythology, Media and the Future of Hinduism – Huffington Post (blog)
Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, MI has gone Universalist accepting everyone. Of course most Congregations accept anyone and welcome them to attend but this is a melding of Spiritual ideas and the cross is offensive to portions of the new progressive movement. So it was removed causing a stir in the media.
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Progressive Christian Church Removes Cross and Name
Pope Benedict XVI lashed out Sunday at what he called the “deplorable” raids carried out by Belgian police who detained bishops, confiscated computers, opened a crypt and took church documents as part of an investigation into priestly sex abuse.
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Pope deplores Belgian church sex abuse raids
For the next two weeks PRELUDIUM is taking off in a new direction. Barring great mutterings that make it all the way to the mesas in New Mexico and Arizona and the people of the land, there will not be much written here. Instead I may post, if I can find Internet connections, some pictures and comments on a wonderful Pilgrimage the St
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The Journey and the Destination are the Same (more or less).
Randall Stephens I’ve been slogging through a chapter that deals with the evolution of the family values agenda, Christian psychology, and evangelical child rearing. It’s always harder when one moves further up in time.
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Make the Devil Mad, Go to Bob Jones U.
The Archbishop of Canterbury proposed that The Episcopal Church participants in formal ecumenical dialogues between the Anglican Communion and other churches be removed and its participant in the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO) be recast as a “consultant” and removed as a participant. The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion did as proposed, and sent letters of dismissal and reduction in participation.
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Canon Kearon on Faith and Order: It is about troublesome TEC.
What is it with the Brits hushing up any public declaration of faith? The World Cup is underway, of course, and English football (that’s soccer to us American types) star Wayne Rooney was asked at a news conference about why he wears a cross and rosary beads off the field, er, pitch.
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No Religion Please, We’re British
The Guardian’s Hugh Muir wrote in Guardian Diary “If the US Episcopal Church – still part of the worldwide Anglican communion despite having the temerity to elect gay bishops – feels nervous about the warmth of its welcome from the mothership that is the Church of England, perhaps there are reasons. Katharine Jefferts Schori , the presiding bishop of the US church and the first woman ever to lead an Anglican province, preached at Southwark Cathedral last weekend despite muted hisses of disapproval by conservative evangelicals.
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If this is true, what happened to hospitality?
Let’s get one thing straight. Barack Obama has not been calling BP “British Petroleum”. Not repeatedly, not pointedly, not — as far as anyone who has bothered to search the record can tell — at all
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Yes, Obama is angry with BP, but not Britain