Posts Tagged ‘decision’

Dr. Vallentine’s ethical decision

Thursday, September 28th, 2017

Aboard the Golfo Azzurro — an urgent plea woke the ship’s doctor, John Vallentine, at 6:30 a.m. He was needed on the bridge. The rescue ship was steaming south in the Mediterranean Sea in a race to reach a deflating rubber dinghy packed with migrants. Italy’s coast guard had transmitted the coordinates, along with a Read more

Welby’s conversion was embarrassing, ‘like getting measles’

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Describing his personal conversion experience, the Archbishop of Canterbury says he felt “a clear sense of something changing” but “I was desperately embarrassed that this had happened to me, like getting measles”. Since then, says Archbishop Justin Welby, there have been long periods with “no sense of any presence at all’’, but he has never Read more