Category - St Paul

Pope and Patriarch tread St Paul's road to greater unity

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:05:40 +0100

Pope Benedict XVI and the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch Bartholemew are seeking to put differences aside in order to encourage a growing global vision of Christian unity in a divided world, using St Paul as an exemplar.

Whose mission is it anyway?

Simon Barrow — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:21:32 +0100

Some section of the Anglican Communion are convinced that only their narrow vision of what is permissible in faithfulness to the Christian message is adequate, says Simon Barrow. But they are confounded by the biblical texts they claim loyalty to.

Resurrection is no Easter conjuring trick

Simon Barrow — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:41:09 +0000

The modern temptation is to dismiss resurrection as fantasy or reduce it to spiritualised sophistry, says Simon Barrow. The shape of the core Christian hope is both more substantial and more subtle than that.

Peace and unity are what the church should offer, says Benedict

staff writers — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:38:25 +0000

Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, has said that Christians should give priority to unity in the global Week of Prayer that runs from 18-25 January. He also commended a peace message from St Augustine.

Turkish Christians mark 2000 years since St Paul's birth

Ecumenical News International — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:40:02 +0000

Turkey's Catholic community wants to mark the 2000th anniversary of the birth of St Paul by improving the status of the country's Christian minorities, as well as reopening a church at the apostle's birthplace in Tarsus.

Struggle, surprise and sainthood

Simon Barrow — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:58:07 +0000

Christian faith is about sustaining faith in face of the knowledge and reality of death, says Simon Barrow. The feasts of All Saints and All Souls put us in solidarity with a host of people who have struggled to see right prevail.

How these Christians hate one another

Simon Barrow — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:09:06 +0100

Simon Barrow asks how we can regain and sense of proportion, love and justice in arguments about the Bible and many other things in church and public life.

Wrestling biblically with the changing shape of family

Deirdre J. Good — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:50 +0000

New Testament scholar Deirdre Good explains why simplistic appeals to scripture distort its meaning, and why for the Gospel family is built on magnanimity not exclusion

Being a cautious mystic

Johan Maurer — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:35:24 +0000

Johan Maurer asks what we mean by spiritual experience and mysticism