by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, a noted theologian and philosopher in his own right, gave a lecture at Swansea University entitled ‘How to Misunderstand Religion’. He was responding in particular to the writings of Richard Dawkins, arguing...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
The World Bank risks doing more harm than good, if it is allowed to continue attaching harmful economic conditions to its development loans, international development agency Christian Aid has warned. The agency is urging the UK government to press hard for World Bank...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 13, 2007
Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot: The Mystery Beneath the Real, by Peter C. Hodgson, 256 pages, SCM Press. Earlier this year I re-read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, looking at it from a theological perspective (see Finding at-one-ment in Middlemarch), so I...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 12, 2007
Christians are fleeing Iraq and Christianity risks disappearing from the country, says a senior Baghdad archbishop, reiterating appeals made recently to Western churches to intercede with their governments about the plight of the Iraqis. “We do have the courage...
by Sean Reilly | Dec 12, 2007
Following public criticism, several embarrassing cases resurfacing from the past and a painstaking subsequent review of procedure, the Church of England has published its “model protocol” for handling child protection cases. The publication follows the...
