Reflections from Rick Lord on Leadership, Transformation, and Things That Keep Human Life Distinctively Human
CNN — Pat Robertson, who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, now says a “pact to the devil” brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti. More than 100,000 people are feared dead in Haiti and Robertson continues to espouse an incomprehensible image of God sending natural disasters upon the innocent and suggesting [...]
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I’ve been intrigued by the controversy over Brit Hume’s suggestion to Tiger Woods that he consider the person and teaching of Jesus as a way to experience forgiveness for his alleged infidelity. Christianity Today’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey recently interviewed Hume to expand on what he meant. A few choice quotes: “Instead of urging that Tiger [...]
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From the New York Times: VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury next month in the leaders’ first encounter since the Catholic church moved to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a Vatican spokesman said Friday. Archbishop Rowan Williams, the Anglican leader, was already [...]
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From the New York Times: VATICAN CITY — In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican said Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church while retaining many of their traditions. Anglicans [...]
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Bernard L. Madoff was sent to jail Thursday after confessing to one of the largest financial frauds in history, telling a courtroom filled with people he cheated that he was “sorry and ashamed” for bilking so many out of their life savings. One can only imagine the betrayal of trust and the agony felt by [...]
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I enjoyed the prayers offered at the events surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration, and felt they captured what Phillips Brooks once described as “the communication of truth through personality.” So it was interesting to read a British perspective from the Telegraph Online by George Pitcher who puts forward the argument that American public prayer is a [...]
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So many, like me, were deeply moved by the quartet “Air and Simple Gifts” performed yesterday just before Barrack Obama was sworn in as our new President. Amazingly, Wikipedia already has an entry on the piece. From Wikipedia: Air and Simple Gifts is a classical quartet by American composer John Williams composed for the January [...]
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The On Faith Section of the Washingtonpost.com asks a question that underscores the increasing diversity and pluralism of our culture: Should the presidential inauguration ceremony include prayers by clergy? Should President-elect Obama say “so help me God” at the end of his oath of office? Should Chief Justice John Roberts ask him to? A number [...]
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