"Barefoot College" in Sierra Leone

Brilliant.

Vatican II: Fifty Years Later

The late Fr Jose Comblin on Vatican II.

When someone is hungry...

"When someone is hungry we do not see samosas floating down from heaven." A classic Desmond Tutu quotation.

A good news story...

A good news story about Msgr. Nicolás Castellanos, who resigned as a bishop in Spain to work among the poor in Bolivi.

The language of an apparatchik

What on earth was Rowan Williams thinking when he used the phrase 'takes no prisoners'?

Justifying the Afghan war - or not

What are other churches saying, I wonder? Church of England, anyone?

The new muscular 'Christianity'

"In Revelation, Jesus is a pride fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up." (Mark Driscoll)*

I am speechless. More or less. Where do you even begin with such a fundamental misunderstanding of Revelation? Where do you even begin to analyse such complete and utter bullshit? The image of Jesus in Revelation is that of the slain lamb. Not to mention the centrality of the cross - getting tortured and executed.

*I am struggling to find a reference apart from the many sites that repeat this quotation.