Category - Liberal

Hearing hope through the babble

Simon Barrow — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:47:31 +0100

Globalisation constructed as top-down control and the triumph of the powerful needs to be disrupted by a different and gentler logic, says Simon Barrow. But will we choose Pentecost or Babel?

Learning the many faces of humanism

Mark Vernon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:48:58 +0100

Humanism is a philosophy and approach to life that has Christian, atheist, deist and theist roots, says Mark Vernon. So when it is taught in schools, what kind of approach will be adopted?

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staff writers — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:04:49 +0000

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Celebrating Indian independence without romance

Savi Hensman — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:27 +0100

India gained independence through nonviolence, but partition involved much brutality, says Savi Hensman. Independence means embracing peace and justice in spite of intolerant ideologies, both religious and secular.

Williams says the Bible invites listening not dogmatism

staff writers — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:52:44 +0100

Christians cannot make sense of their scriptures apart from a listening community, Dr Rowan Williams has said. In a lecture on biblical interpretation he argues that both dogmatic and dismissive approaches are flawed.

Enough is Enough, Anglicans who want to bar colleagues are told

staff writers — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Amid confusion about who will play a role at the global Anglican Primates meeting in Tanzania this week ‚Ä' with reports that even the evangelical Dr John Sentamu is unacceptable to hardliners gathered around Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola ‚Ä' a UK-based broad church organization has declared ‚ÄúEnough is Enough‚Äù.

Keep Church of England open, bishops and leaders urged

staff writers — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The Anglican-founded InclusiveChurch network has said that a broad based Church of England should not allow itself to be "held to ransom" by a number of mainly conservative evangelical parishes who are reportedly intending to set up an alternative episcopal jurisdiction using retired bishops to provide their own, separate ministry within the Church