ITEMS OF INTEREST April 17, 2006 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Rowan Williams, Peg Winters

"'IDENTIFY YOURSELF!" says the world to the Christian; and the Christian says, "... We are withness to the consistency of a God who cannot be turned aside from His purpose by any created power, or by any failure or betrayal on our part." ...

"The question of Christian identity in a world of plural perspectives and convictions cannot be answered in cliches about the tolerant coexistence of different opinions. ... We are not called to win competitions or arguments in favor of our "product" in some religious marketplace. If we are, in the words of Olivier Clement, to take our dialogue beyond the encounter of ideologies, we have to be ready to witness, in life and word, to what is made possible by being in the place of Jesus the anointed."

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
From an address to the
World Council of Churches conference in Porte Alegre, Brazil
February 17, 2006

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