Jesus would have joined the anti-corporate Occupy movement protestors says Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In an article for the Christmas edition of the Radio Times magazine, Williams considers the slogan ‘What Would Jesus Do?’, with particular reference to those involved in the recent events at St Paul’s Cathedral. “The Jesus we meet in Read more
Australian schools will be able to choose to employ chaplains or secular welfare officers in a programme announced recently by Education Minister Peter Garrett. According to the ABC, the $222 million program has been under fire since being announced in the budget, with the Greens concerned that chaplains had to be attached to religious organisations Read more
He still believes in God, but Fr Peter Kennedy does not believe in Jesus, rather considering him to be a fable. Kennedy, dismissed from his Queensland parish for unorthodoxy such as allowing women to preach and blessing same-sex marriages, hasn’t entirely given up on God, although he does not believe He intervenes in the lives Read more
The pomp, circumstance and military trappings of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was light years away from the teachings of the vulnerable man Jesus who was executed by the Romans, says Sande Ramage. Despite that ‘The Royals at the Abbey’, with the full co-operation of the church, keep trying to blend two Read more