May 25, 2013
- United Methodists put theology to work, “following and finding Christ in disaster situations,” explains head of mission agency.
- Decision will be made on proposal to allow openly gay Scouts but retain the prohibition on gay adult leaders.
- World Methodist Evangelism organizes events in London as “people called Methodist” remember the life-changing moment of John Wesley.
Religions have undergone major change since Hindus traditionally practiced animal sacrifice, or Mohammed’s portrait was featured in Islamic art. But how?
CPWR Trustee Anne Benvenuti recommends a new chronicle:
The BBC Magazine delves deep into the ways and whys of historical influences shifting the religious stance on many customs from antithesis to synthesis:
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May 24, 2013
[Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts press release] The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, met with his doctors at the Dana Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston May 24 and learned that the tumor removed from his brain last Friday is indeed cancerous. He will begin both radiation and chemotherapy in the next few weeks.
“This is hard news for all of us to hear,” the Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd, Canon to the...
Service draws church members, TV cameras, Cuban officials
May 24, 2013
Colorful liturgical dancers and a praise band help lead opening worship. —Jerry L....
MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES!
Yale Divinity School and the Ministers Council partner to provide members an opportunity to extend their education at Summer Study 2013 at a DISCOUNT.
Summer Study 2013, consists of two week sessions...
Two-day consultation wraps up with call to work for end to sexual violence
May 24, 2013
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WASHINGTON
News that scientists had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire...
[Lambeth Palace -- Press Release] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said today that “all our prayers and mine” are with the family of Lee Rigby, the British soldier killed in Woolwich on Wednesday. In a joint press conference in Leicester with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, the Archbishop praised the responses of different faith groups to the incident and said this is “very much a time for communities to come together”.
The Archbishop made the...