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What brings these two men together is a shared Christian faith. Blair is lampooned in London for having the self-righteous fastidiousness of an Anglican vicar. But his sincere faith forged a bond with a believing President and made Blair more receptive than most nonbelieving Europeans to the clear moral tone in the White House. What soldered the bond was the horror of Sept. 11. Blair's supreme political gift is a swift, intuitive, unerring sense of the public mood. He cemented his hold on the British public by his poignant response to the death of Princess Diana...
These days, the chapel serves as common grounds for multi-ethnic, interfaith groups Cambridge groups, ranging from Alcholics Anonymous to the Peace Corps, as well as the services of two congregations from very different denominations—Anglican and Russian Pentecostal...
...rally site, famous peace advocates such as South African Anglican Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu, actress Susan Sarandon and Martin Luther King III spoke out against...
...party-girl act showed signs of waning even before Sept. 11. Twice last year, Genelle and Roger--raised Catholic and Anglican, respectively--attended the Brooklyn Tabernacle. An 8,000-member evangelical congregation in a lavishly refurbished old cinema, the tabernacle touched Genelle with its message that if you only let him, Jesus can change your life and show you the right path. It was a narrower path, one that would require her and Roger to stop carousing, but she was intrigued. Roger was more hesitant...
Contrary to the beliefs of many U.S. observers, this resistance is not due to "Eurowimp" syndrome but to the strongly held belief that any conflict must be just. "I supported the war with Iraq over Kuwait," says Richard Harries, the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, who signed the Pax Christi petition submitted to Tony Blair. "I supported the war in Afghanistan. I supported the effort in Bosnia. War can be justified, but certain conditions have...