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...nation in any significant way, as our parents did, is the source of much of the sourness and corrosion that afflict our public life. In a new book, Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy avoids the standard imperial clich?s but finds some interesting parallels, especially the notion that the Roman Empire began to falter when it started hiring out major functions of the government, including military service, to private contractors. Murphy cites the use of corporations like Halliburton to provide services that the military used to perform-like preparing food (or KP duty)-as an example of paying other people...
...Anglicanism matters, and not just because it is one of the largest Protestant denominations. It matters because, like Roman Catholicism, it is global, uniting varied ethnicities, economic levels and social attitudes in an overarching understanding of faith. But Anglicans have foregone Catholicism's useful authoritarianism, staking their unity on a seemingly more attractive continual conversation, based on mutual respect. The sharp debate over homosexuality threatens that unity, and crystallizes a challenge facing everyone in an uneasy, newly wired world: can the North - rich and imbued with an ethos of individual rights - and the poorer South find a constructive interdependence...
...hints, threatened - by Muslim clergy because of same-sex relationships, even though the local Christians themselves have never accepted their validity. Williams would like to see a "covenant" or set of core Anglican principles. U.S. Episcopalians have criticized this as a move aimed at forcing liberal churches into Roman-style lockstep, and he acknowledged it could eventually isolate the American church's current stance on homosexuality. "I don't want to accelerate departure, God forbid," he says, adding that he hopes both the Episcopalians and others could benefit if their positions changed...
Anglicanism matters, and not just because it's one of the largest Protestant denominations. Like Roman Catholicism, it is global, uniting varied ethnicities in an overarching understanding of faith. But Anglicans have forgone Catholicism's authoritarianism, staking their unity on a continual conversation and mutual respect. The sharp debate over homosexuality crystallizes a challenge facing everyone in an uneasy, newly wired world: Can the North--rich and imbued with an ethos of individual rights--and the poorer South find a constructive interdependence? Speaking to TIME on a cool May morning, Williams insisted, "I don't think schism is inevitable...
...clear that neither is cut from the traditional cloth of international diplomacy. Beyond what are indeed very different styles and backgrounds and job descriptions are leaders who pride themselves as straight talkers who act according to what they see as simple truths. Indeed, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the born-again Protestant President acknowledge that their public deeds - and diplomacy, itself - are driven by a very palpable and personal religious faith...