24th December 2017 2:41 pm by Hassan John. The author, Archbishop Moses Deng, is a participant in the OCRPL/Stellenbosch University Ph D Programme. It is a phrase that you often hear in Advent and through Christmas “Peace on Earth and goodwill to all”. This phrase very much affects me because in the country I come from, South Sudan, […]
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byStephen J. Heaney (The Witherspoon Institute), January 22nd, 2018 The modern university project, as articulated by the American Association of University Professors, is a project of planned obsolescence. Those who continue to proclaim that the principles of free and open inquiry and the marketplace of ideas are alive and well are fooling only themselves. The King James
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By Dr C.Sugden, published in The Church of England Newspaper, Jan 26, 2018 Imagining the divine is an exhibition running from mid-October to mid February at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the oldest museum in the world. It sets out “to explore the art of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism as religion spread across the
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Church of England Newspaper February 9 2018 Leadership for change in Africa – the art of self-transcendancy Chief Olusegun Matthew Obasanjo, president of Nigeria from 1976-1979 and again from 1999-2007, spoke to over two hundred postgraduates, mainly from Africa, at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford on Monday January 8th on Leadership for Transformation of
Church of England Newspaper February 9 2018 Leadership for change in Africa – the art of self-transcendancy Chief Olusegun Matthew Obasanjo, president of Nigeria from 1976-1979 and again from 1999-2007, spoke to over two hundred postgraduates, mainly from Africa, at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford on Monday January 8th on Leadership for Transformation of
Church of England Newspaper February 15 2018 By Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden AT THE heart of the issue raised by Oxfam’s activities in Haiti in 2011 is the imbalance of power in any charitable engagement with powerless and poor people. Aid workers need far more oversight for the use of their enormous power in
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Church of England Newspaper May 4 Bishop Michael Langrish, the former Bishop of Exeter, was part of a group who visited Syria over the period of the Allied Bombings of chemical weapon installations. The Daily Mail called the group “Useful Idiots”. He spoke of his visit with Chris Sugden. CS Given that the conflict in
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Vinay Samuel has questions about making an idol of emotional authenticity in music Aretha Franklin died on 16 August 2018, aged 76. The powerful soul singer will undoubtedly go down in music history. Influenced and inspired by gospel music, Franklin grew up in church. Her father was the minister at New Bethel Baptist Church and
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The wounds still bleed after Kandhamal JOHN DAYAL New Delhi, India Church of England Newspaper 12 October 2018 Sister M. is how we identify her. Ten years after she was gang-raped at the start of the targeted violence against Christian Tribals and Dalits in the Kandhamal district of the state of Orissa, the Catholic Nun
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Chris Sugden, 24 January 2019 ‘Left’ and ‘right’ political and economic categories cannot be applied to the bible’s economic understanding, and are of little use in addressing society. So concluded a seminar in Campion Hall Oxford on January 16th where biblical scholars and professionals in law and business examined “The Social and Economic Teaching of the
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