- Good results for Nigel Farage following the English local elections in May. Terrible results for Conservative Party.
- No progress towards the marriage of same-sex couples in the Church of England
- Turbulent year for WordPress, which powers about half of the internet.
- 2025 will be the hottest year on record.
- No trade deal for UK with US. Increasing talk of re-aligning economy closer to EU.
- Ceasefire in Russia-Ukraine war but no long term solution.
- “Assisted Dying” aka doctor assisted suicide becomes legal in at least one of the jurisdictions of the British Isles.
- Turbulent year for economy but stock market higher at end of year than beginning. (FTSE currently at 8,173)
- There will be fewer Commonwealth Realms (ie countries which share the monarchy) by the end of 2025 than there are now.
- Philip Mountstephen.
One response to “What should ecumenical and interfaith dialogue actually be about?”
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I’m guessing that you have never read any of the Roman church’s official documents on ecuminism. The Roman concept of ecumenism is that it’s sole purpose and intended outcome is that everyone will accept the Bishop of Rome as the Vicar of Christ and return to the only true Church on the earth.
Nothing less than that is exceptible. Which is why when a so called ecumenical partner church in dialog with the Roman church does something such as ordaining women to the priesthood and consecrating them as bishops or embracing same gender marriage, the Romans start lamenting how it’s a waste of their time to carry on with the dialog. Because as long as the other church does such things, they will never return to the fold.
As for interfaith dialog, as long as you keep it to polite dinner conversation, your OK. But the conservative Christians come unglued if you invite them into your building or worse, plan any kind of an interfaith service. An example would be the comments when Father Bosco wrote on an interfaith concert that was to be mounted in the Dio Nelson NZ Cathedral;
http://liturgy.co.nz/nelson-cathedral-bans-tolerance-concertOr any similar topic that we have covered at the Lead on Episcopal Cafe.
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