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Black Theology Seeks the Liberation of All
Obama is a person of courageous integrity. He could have ingratiated himself to white Americans by repudiating his pastor completely. He did nothing of the sort. That speaks volumes for the man.
We Live By Faith, Not Certainty
Mother Teresa has helped to affirm many who are passing through this period of desolation and dryness when God seems so remote.
Give the People a Choice
As an Anglican, my tradition held from our beginning that the language of the liturgy should be in the language of the people.
Einstein and Heaven?
If Einstein is correct and energy is neither created nor destroyed, we have energy and therefore in some basic way we continue. The concept of heaven and hell are helpful images of fulfillment or disintegration. Drawing upon my spiritual tradition I would understand saying yes to God as being drawn into that fulfillment by God's grace. Saying no would be a way of self selecting out of that ultimate fulfillment....
Can Politics Serve Democracy?
In the election for London Mayor the electorate was faced with a tricky, certainly dishonest radical left-winger who'd been in power for 8 years and done all sorts of crazy things, and a solidly right-wing super-rich playboy, very smart and totally untrustworthy. Does that sort of choice add up to 'democracy'?
God in Public -- The New Challenge of Our Times
Clearly we are facing quite a new moment. Whereas in the 1990s people were buzzing about Who Was Jesus, today the key question seems to be, how do we 'do God' in public?
Questions, Answers Still Blowing in the Wind
Forty years on, I'm still left asking the question -- with a great sense of sadness because I love America and admire it hugely and am awed and saddened at some of the things some American policies are leading to.
Beware Labelism
'Religion' should address 'labelism' -- especially in the run-up to an election.
The Resurrection Revolution
For Christians, resurrection is a highly revolutionary doctrine. Death is the last weapon of the tyrant. The news that the living God is sovereign over death itself is therefore very bad news for tyrants
Spitzer Case About Public and Private Trust
If someone deceives their spouse, chances are they won't have much compunction about deceiving the public.
New Tech, Old Issue
I bet people have asked this question about everything since they discovered pigeons could carry messages.
He Would Challenge Power, Not Run for It
The real question is, what sort of a cross would today's system be intent on using to kill him?
A Serious Issue that Requires Sensitivity
The question of how we live together as a civil and wise society while cherishing different faiths is a deep and serious one and can’t be pushed away just because people take fright at certain misunderstandings.
Two Options: Delusion or Hoax
Vissarion sounds very much like a low-grade version of the sort of self-help religion you get in popular bookshops: bits and pieces of this and that.
Time for Serious Debate on God in Public
Huckabee's raising of the question, and the way in which these things are now debated in the U.S. and UK, is an indication that the Enlightenment 'settlement' whereby secular governments run the country and religion is a private affair, is rapidly being seen as threadbare.
The Sinful Pride of the Post-Modern World
Our pride in being western post-enlightenment humans (or indeed our pride in having attained the degree of sophistication to call ourselves post-modernists!) gives us the further license to make up our own rules.
The Jewish Advantage
The Jewish people have a great, though challenging, advantage over many western Christians, in that they know in their bones that they are called to be different.
Secularists Will Have to Deal With It
The reality is that it isn't the Muslims or the Hindus who are 'offended' at Christians doing Christian celebrations. It is the old-fashioned secularists.
Whispers of Hope from the Dead
All cultures, ancient as well as modern, have been more or less familiar with the fact that people we love who have died can and do appear to us.
Human Behavior, By Any Other Name...
We could substitute the word 'atheism' for 'religion' in Hitchens' quote and it would still work.
Fine Line Between Belief, Behavior
In the name of whichever god you invoke, would it not be a better thing for us all to talk together about our respective faiths than to try to achieve dominance by violence?
Big Question, Bigger Assumptions
We are never, repeat never, in a position where we can size up God and decide what such a being ought really to do.
God or god?
A genuine conversation about what 'god' means, between a well thought out Christian and a well thought out Hindu, would be a great start.
No Easy Answers
I have looked at the sites and find myself unable to do more than observe. I have taken part in some Christian-Mulsim dialogues, with great enjoyment and profit, but find myself still very much in the learning stage. It is quite clear that a large number of Muslims in the western world, and indeed a large number elsewhere, are able with clarity and coherence to expound a view of Islam in which it is indeed tolerant, non-compulsory, open to people converting to other faiths, etc. It is equally clear that a large number of Muslims all round the world are...
A Caste System for Christians
Happily, there are thousands, perhaps millions, of Roman Catholics who cheerfully ignore all this and establish excellent relationships.
Neither is The Final Destination
Heaven is important but it's not the end of the world.
