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I found this neat article “Eros in Benedict and Luther” by Mary D. Gaebler; it deserves close reading.

The Age has reprinted an article by Nicholas Kristof under the above title (originally printed in the New York Times as “A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion”). Its not on The Age website, and you need to be … Continue reading →

I am beginning to wonder if I don’t need to write a complete book on this Intelligent Design stuff. Brian left a long comment at the end of my last major blog on the topic. I found that most of … Continue reading →

Seriously. I thought it before, and now I know it. As part of my job, I had to read the transcript of the Catch The Fire Seminar on Islam–the one in which the VCAT has found that they were guilty … Continue reading →

“Is it true that God created the world in six days?” That was the question rather bluntly put to me the other night at the Intelligent Design meeting. They asked me whether I believed that Genesis 1 was true. I … Continue reading →

Well, I just finished watching EWTN’s coverage of the Divine Liturgy for the Festival of St Andrew (and the Translation of the relics of St John Chrysostom and St Gregory the Theologian) at the Cathedral Church of St George at … Continue reading →

“Hey, this is fun, isn’t it?”

When Anglican Rowan Williams was visiting Rome last week, the Vatican Information Service announced that “On the afternoon of Sunday, November 26, prior to his departure, Archbishop Williams will preside at an Anglican liturgy in the Basilica of Santa Sabina … Continue reading →

If you are trying to follow the Holy Father’s trip to Turkey, you can’t do better than get over to www.einews.blogspot.com, the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission’s new Newsblog. Here you will find all the commentary and the news (almost) as … Continue reading →

Was it Bugs Bunny who used to say “I must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque”? Well, Intelligent Design is a theological Alberquerque if ever there was one. I have just returned from a presentation on ID made to … Continue reading →