Marching to a different drum?

Recently Anglican bishops attending the Lambeth Conference who took part in an anti-poverty walk with other faith leaders through central London assembled in Whitehall Place, and walked past the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. The London Borough of Westminster is...

Obama pitches for a global presidency in Berlin speech

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is today making an unprecedented campaign pitch in Berlin, Germany, and has drawn an enthusiastic crowd of 100,000. But how will this go down in the USA? That is the question political analysts are asking as the young...

International church groups call for end of Zimbabwe NGO ban

A coalition of church organizations that includes the World Council of Churches and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, has called for the lifting of a ban by Zimbabwe that has prevented humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organizations from working in...

Anglicans can ‘win’ by not fighting

“I grew up in the Vietnam War era. In the end people lost interest in that war, they said this is not a war worth fighting. Sometimes winning is to say we don’t want to fight that war any more.” Brian McLaren is one of the leading US figures in...