Today former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose role is now unpaid Middle East peace envoy, launches his Faith Foundation:
As late as 2000 the Economist magazine published the so-called obituary of God in its Millennium issue. But in fact at no time since the Enlightenment has religion ever gone away. It has always been at the very core [...]
Archive for May, 2008
International Interfaith in action!
Posted in Current events on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
‘Whoever wishes to be saved’ : The Athanasian Creed
Posted in Beliefs on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quicunque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem: Quam nisi quisque integram inviolatamque servaverit, absque dubio in aeternam peribit. Fides autem catholica haec est: ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in unitate veneremur. Neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam seperantes. Alia est enim persona Patris alia Filii, alia Spiritus Sancti: Sed [...]
Return to Narnia
Posted in People on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
US television is currently showing advertising previews of Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian which opened in theatres last weekend.
The movie is based on C.S.Lewis’ 1951 book, where the four Pevensie children caught up in another courageous adventure and swept back to the magic kingdom of Narnia.
The author, friend and contemporary of J.R.R.Tolkein, remarked on writing:
What you want [...]
Happy Birthday ( to Jews )
Posted in Current events on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is 60 years since the formation of the State of Israel, all things Jewish can be celebrated on Israel at Sixty including May 18 to May 22 an international 5 day bike ride!
Practise the Ha Tikvah Anthem.
The words mean:
As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,
With eyes turned toward the East, looking [...]
ET beware
Posted in People on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Aliens are my brother’. So writes this week Father Gabriel Funes, Director of The Vatican Observatory near Rome.
Humans don’t always respect each other’s religions or cultures though, or knowledge: the founder of scientific astronomy Galileo Galilei was held under house arrest for almost 10 years for saying the sun was the centre of the solar system and the earth moves around it, information since [...]
When it rains collect the water ( Burmese proverb )
Posted in Current events on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Yangon these Buddhist monks are helping clear roads after a devastating cyclone caused thousands of fatalities and widespread damages across the country of Burma. All Theravada Buddhists traditionally don robes and serve at least for a small part of their lives, most often during teenage years, through good works, meditation and philosophy study.
Last year 100,000 monks attempted to confront the [...]
Mystery solved
Posted in Beliefs on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If Christians really believed in the mystery of God, we would realise that proper talk about God is always difficult, always tentative.
“I want to encourage people of faith to regard those without faith with deep esteem because the hidden God is active in their lives as well as in the lives of those who [...]
Now you see him…now you don’t!
Posted in Current events on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Florida substitute teacher Jim Piculas has been removed from Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes after showing pupils a trick involving a disappearing and reappearing toothpick, the complaint: wizardry.
Thank goodness someone is stamping out these vestiges of medieval witchcraft, one day that ‘got your nose’ thumb illusion which has fooled generations of young will [...]
First Amendment, we pray
Posted in Litany on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The First Amendment says there is not nor will be an established religion of the US, but in 2008 70-80 % of the population are attached to some form of Christianity.
Last month in America a news reporter called Ainsley Earhardt asked in an emotional plea on her news report “what is so wrong with prayer?”
Here’s the US Senate opening prayer, Washington 12 [...]
Am I my pastor’s keeper?
Posted in Current events on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the ( on and ) ongoing US Democratic Leadership contest Barack Obama has been slated for attending a church where the Rev Jeremiah Wright preached on September 16 th 2001:
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is [...]
