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Why be a Christian? Part 1
Timothy Radcliffe OP begins What is the Point of Being a Christian? (2009) with the words of Cardinal Shard, “[t]o be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would make…
Read MoreWord of Life: John 11
2 April 2017 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. 1. In the beginning God spoke a Word, and the universe came to be. God’s utterance was like…
Read MoreOscar Romero’s Day
The Anglican Church keeps the feast of Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and Martyr, on 24 March each year. The Archbishop was assassinated at the altar on that day in 1980. He was a champion of the poor, devoted to non-violent liberation and renewal of the heart. His social vision remains electric and transformative, even…
Read MoreOscar Romero's Day
The Anglican Church keeps the feast of Oscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and Martyr, on 24 March each year. The Archbishop was assassinated at the altar on that day in 1980. He was a champion of the poor, devoted to non-violent liberation and renewal of the heart. His social vision remains electric and transformative, even…
Read MoreArchbishop Justin on Money
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2017 Lent book is Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace. Archbishop Justin argues that Mammon, the idol of economics and finance, has distorted our valuation of people and things. The exchange value of a thing is so often a poor reflection of its worth. If we could see with the eyes of…
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