Ironically, churches are so embedded in our story and landscape, we tend to take them for granted. Worse still, when their very existence is endangered, we’ve hardly bothered to notice
Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph, 21 October
It’s not a question of faith. It’s a question of knowledge and therefore of evidence. And our knowledge is growing day by day. We know things about the universe that we did not know 150 years before
Olivier Bonnassies, co-author of God: The science, the evidence, interview in The Sunday Telegraph, 19 October.
What drives this quiet return is not nostalgia for a fading tradition but disillusionment with false promises. The “tin gods” of consumerism, careerism and technology have failed to provide lasting meaning. . . The pressing question is whether the church, when confronted with this longing, will offer the living Christ or merely the machinery of religion
Michael Marshall, former Bishop of Woolwich, The Times, 18 October
What fascinated me about the Goldenstein nuns’ story was how their plight required them to question and then resist Church authority, thus exposing the vital distinction between obedience to God’s unconditional will and obedience to man, who is saddled with his endlessly fallible and corruptible human heart
Lamorna Ash, article about the “rebel nuns of the Kloster Goldenstein convent” in Austria, The New Statesman, 17-23 October edition
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