Healing the psychological wounds of war

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...

Evangelical Christians and Muslims meet for historic dialogue

The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and was heralded by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads. The aim of the gathering in...

Struggle, surprise and sainthood

Time rushes by so fast at this time of year, what with Christmas looming on the horizon, that it would be easy to overlook two strange yet significant days earlier this month (November 2007). For Christians in the Catholic tradition, especially (but not only, I shall...