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...Says the Rev. Canon David Anderson, head of the American Anglican Council, which organized the Dallas meeting: "The [American] church is now apostate, and the stakes are higher." Similarly, there was a moment after his appointment in 2002 when liberals pinned their hopes on Williams. As a respected bishop-theologian, he had said in the past that stable and faithful same-sex relationships might be legitimate in God's eyes. But since his enthronement in February, he has taken a tougher line, emphasizing the need to consider how one church's choices can impact those in other nations. Two weeks...
...Richard Harries' appointment of a gay man as Bishop of Reading. Arguments over homosexuality in the priesthood have simmered for years, even as a blind eye has been turned to the fact that some members of the clergy are gay. But the appointment in May of Jeffrey John, canon theologian at London's Southwark Cathedral and a gay-rights advocate who's been in a relationship with the same man for 27 years, is regarded by evangelicals as a step too far. While critics insist that they are not anti-gay, they argue the Bible condemns homosexuality and that...
...This War Would Not Be Moral" [VIEWPOINT, March 3], Duke theologian Stanley Hauerwas asserted that by describing Saddam as evil, Bush "gives this war a religious justification." But religion has nothing to do with legitimizing this war. Saddam's immoral behavior provides the basis for action. He has used poison gas on the Kurds, supplied money to suicide bombers and built lavish homes for himself--all while Iraqis starve. These actions are evil and alone provide more than enough moral justification for war. Going to war is never the first option, but when all others have been exhausted...
...Protestantism--for which grace is a constant anguish, a goal never quite attained but approached through learning or good works. "The Evangelicals take their marching orders from Paul, who said you have to 'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,'" Martin E. Marty, the University of Chicago theologian, told me last week. "The implication is that once you've worked it out, once you've been born again, you don't have to be fearful or tremble so much anymore...
...Protestantism - for which grace is a constant anguish, a goal never quite attained but approached through learning or good works. "The Evangelicals take their marching orders from Paul, who said you have to 'work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,'" Martin E. Marty, the University of Chicago theologian, told me last week. "The implication is that once you've worked it out, once you've been born again, you don't have to be fearful or tremble so much anymore...