From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Remarks from Rowan Williams Upon Receiving the Campion Award

January 30, 2010

From America Magazine:
On January 25 Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, accepted the 2009 Campion Award from the editors of America.  In his remarks upon accepting award, he reflected on the idea of a “martyrial ecumenism,” mused on the surprising links between Shakespeare and St. Edmund Campion and emphasized the central place of forgiveness in all relationships.
Drew [...]

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Credo: Better is a world built on love, not Darwinian struggle

January 25, 2010

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes in the Times Online about a central conviction of his faith:
If the Universe was brought into being by One beyond the Universe, then it was created by a being who desires to bring things into being. The simplest way of expressing this is: God created the Universe in love. For it [...]

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Bishop Duracin – “What’s important is to keep the faith.”

January 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed Bishop Duracin in Port au Prince, as he cares for his people at a tent city he set up behind the ruins of College Ste. Pierre.  Pray that people everywhere will keep faith with the people of Haiti.

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A Prayer for Haiti

January 17, 2010

Gracious God,
I lift my voice in prayer with all the people of the world.
Surround Haiti and her people
with your loving embrace
that they may be:
supported by the world in the work of rescue and recovery;
comforted as they grieve;
strengthened as they bury their dead;
healed as they tend their wounds;
restored in faith and the
hope of things unseen;
and transformed [...]

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Bring Hope Not Arrogance To Haiti

January 14, 2010

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 [...]

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One Beggar Telling Another Where To Find Bread

January 8, 2010

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 Woods [...]

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Archbishop Rowan Williams Welcomes 2010

January 1, 2010

A timely message about hope, human cooperation, and charity.

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