by Sean Reilly | Mar 2, 2008
While most of the media were unpicking the grammatical spaghetti of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said something important that too many people missed. Defending what has come to be called liberal interventionism, he argued that...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 27, 2008
The Church of England today is a weak institution with a strong leader. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, though given few official powers, uses his office and voice in efforts to hold together the polarized eighty-million-member Anglican Communion [1]. He is...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
One morning, a couple of days after arriving as part of a recent Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to Colombia, we gathered in the park opposite our hotel for our morning reflection in which we touched upon a number of themes including poverty. The expression...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 21, 2008
What must [hu]mankind be, before such a thing as war could ever be known or thought of upon earth? How shocking, how inconceivable a want must there have been of common understanding, as well as common humanity, before any two Governors, or any two nations in the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 14, 2008
Last week, an essay written by James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool and a leading evangelical, came to light in which he argued that the Bible includes remarkable accounts of same-sex relationships. Jones come as near you can, without actually saying it, to suggesting...
