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Radical Faith 
Exploring fundamentals of faith in a changed world
 

Priests and bishops embody functions which go back to the dawn of time. Their offices derive from the earliest roots of the Christian Church. But do priests and bishops actually follow the teachings of Jesus in the way they relate to other Christians? Or have their roles developed over the millennia into something which fundamentally goes against what we know of Jesus in the gospels?


Capital punishment, writes Paul Walker, is one of those human solutions which is Simple, Neat and Wrong. In the past, religion tried to offer a complete package of solutions for everything under the sun. Today it's not so easy to do that and those who try it inevitably fall into the trap of fundamentalism. Perhaps we all need to be aware of knee-jerk responses to life -
if only because religion remains an essential dimension to our lives and we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
There is much talk in the Anglican Church worldwide of the inevitability of a break over sexual morality between so-called traditional and liberal wings. Is the anticipated Schism as terrible a prospect as many in authority maintain? Does it contradict a basic stand made by Jesus that he could eat at table with all sinners and that God's love is open to everyone? In response, some think that it's natural for people to hold opposing views, and that schism is often a healing rather than a harming process.

 


21/08/2008

Church Watch

 
Robert Finn, Catholic Bishop of St Joseph's Diocese, USA, has announced a tentative $10m settlement of sex abuse claims against his priests [More]
 
Archbishop Raymond Burke has ruled that Catholic priests in the USA must refuse Communion to politicians who support pro-abortion legislation [More]
 
Roy Bourgeois, a Catholic priest in the USA is being investigated by the Vatican for attending a service at which a woman was ordained priest [More]

A Catholic Carmelite priest has been murdered in Andhra Pradesh, India, after being tortured and having his eyes gouged out [More] 

A Baptist congregation in Atlanta, USA, has taken on physical fitness and weight loss as religious obligations [More]

Membership of the Lutheran Church in the USA has fallen for the 16th year running [More]

The Catholic Church in Scotland has made a deal with the health authorities to allow anti-cervical- cancer jabs for schoolgirls provided they are not given advice about using condoms [More]

Essays on Church censorship