Church publishing group sets out on its new Third Way
Third Way magazine, a Christian current affairs, culture and commentary magazine, has joined the publishing group which puts out the leading independent Church of England weekly paper, the Church Times. But it intends to retain its radical edge.
Tutu to join group of peacemaking global 'elders'
Nobel Peace Laureate and ex-Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to chair a global group of “elders” who will visit some of the world’s conflict zones to offer experience, wisdom, and advice on moving toward non-violent solutions.
Catholics will link up with Islamic fayre in Bristol
People in and around the Clifton Catholic Diocese in southwest England have received a special invitation to the Islamic Cultural Fayre in Bristol on Sunday 22 July 2007, reports Independent Catholic News
US evangelical Christians and Muslims alike, says study
Despite having a faith tradition different to the predominant Christian traditions in the United States, Muslim Americans share much in common with other US religious groups, including white evangelical Protestants, a new study has found - writes Chris Herlinger, for ENI from New York, USA.
Call for bishop's resignation after gay discrimination verdict
Christian and civil rights groups have expressed delight at an employment tribunal decision in favour of John Reaney, the gay man who has won his discrimination claim against the Anglican Bishop of Hereford.
New call from Zimbabwean church leader for Mugabe to go
The outspoken Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, has urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down as the country faces deepening political and economic woes - and new reports of abuses come through.
What difference does God make today?
In a society which is publicly sceptical of Christianity and which often assumes that all 'God talk' is superstituous or merely subjective, this paper suggests how the basic grammar of Christian belief can make sense today, and how it can be mapped in relation to key issues like globalisation, responding to human suffering, and the crisis of communication within mixed-conviction societies.
How Islam can challenge those who abuse it from within
There's a really interesting and important piece in a recent edition of the International Herald Tribune, Only traditional Islam can do it, by Phillip Blond a senior lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Cumbria (also an established Radical Orthodoxy luminary) and Adrian Pabst, lecturer in theology at the University of Nottingham.
