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A new Covenant
Covenant, founded in August 2007 as a weblog community of “evangelical and catholic” Christians, begins a new life today. Covenant has attracted about 40 editorial contributors, including bishops, cathedral deans, priests, and theologians. Covenant will expand its family of contributors in the months ahead.This page will be an archive of content from August 2007 to January 2012. Please visit Covenant’s thoroughly redesigned home at covenant.livingchurch.org and join the conversation.
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Covenant, founded in August 2007 as a weblog community of “evangelical and catholic” Christians, begins a new life today. Covenant has attracted about 40 editorial contributors, including bishops, cathedral deans, priests, and theologians. Covenant will expand its family of contributors in the months ahead.
This page will be an archive of content from August 2007 to January 2012. Please visit Covenant’s thoroughly redesigned home at covenant.livingchurch.org and join the conversation.
A new Covenant
Bp. Henderson on the Disciplinary Board
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:51 pm
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Channel: Living Church Author: Bishop Dorsey Henderson
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Title IV.17 is entitled “Of Proceedings for Bishops.” It addresses terminology applicable to Title IV.16, but the canons make clear that the process to be followed for abandonment is markedly different from that to be followed with other kinds of infractions. Read full post >> Go to the originating news channel for this excerpt to read the full article >>
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Liberation Theology Revisited
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 8:52 pm
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Author: Bishop Daniel H. Martins
Liberation Theology is a term that refers to a discernible school of thought that emanates from the work of several theologians, mostly Roman Catholic and mostly Latin American. It came of age in the 1970s and 80s, waxed for a while, and then waned significantly. It is no longer in fashion — in fact, it has a certain “retro” feel to it — but it is certainly not dormant. Read full post >> Go to the originating news channel for this excerpt to read the full article >>
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The 9/11 attacks and a wider moral malaise
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 4:48 pm
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From Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks:
Two things have haunted me since 9/11. The first is the pain, the grief, the lives lost and families devastated, the sheer barbaric ingenuity of evil. The scar in our humanity is still unhealed. The second is our failure to understand what Osama bin Laden was saying about the West. We did not hear the message then. I’m not sure we hear it now.
After the shock and grief subsided, two theories began to be heard. The first was that this was an event of epoch-changing magnitude. The terms of international politics had been transformed. The Cold War was over. Another war had begun. This time the enemy was not the Soviet Union and communism. It was radical, political Islam.
The second was the opposite. 9/11 was terrifying and terrible but it changed nothing because acts of terror never do. Terrorist campaigns have been aimed at other countries. Britain suffered similarly from the IRA in the 1970s. The most important thing is not to overreact. Terror may bring dividends in local conflicts but it never succeeds in its larger political aims.
There is something to be said for both theories. But there is a third, no less consequential. Why did al-Qaeda attack America? Because it believed that it could. Because it thought the US was a power past its prime, no longer as lean and hungry as it believed it was.
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God’s Boxer
Friday, August 05, 2011 at 10:55 am
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Channel: Guardian
David Hare writes:
It’s striking that throughout his eight years in charge, Williams has been touring as God’s fairground boxer, willing to go five rounds with all comers. Up steps AC Grayling, next day Philip Pullman. But his fondness for quoting Saint Ambrose — “It does not suit God to save his people by arguments” — suggests how little store he sets by such encounters. “Oh, look, argument has the role of damage limitation. The number of people who acquire faith by argument is actually rather small. But if people are saying stupid things about the Christian faith, then it helps just to say, ‘Come on, that won’t work.’”Read full post >> Go to the originating news channel for this excerpt to read the full article >>
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Job opening at TLC
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 2:34 pm
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The Living Church Foundation, an institution committed to fostering visible Christian unity, is looking for an enthusiastic, meticulous, highly organized person to provide key support for the Executive Director, in close collaboration with the Managing Editor and the Office/Business Manager. The Executive Administrative Assistant will work independently and as part of a team to advance the day-to-day mission of the Foundation in concrete and creative ways. This is a part-time position, 20-25 hours per week.
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