- General Election in UK – Labour landslide. PM – Sir Keir Starmer. (No great change in policies from the Tory government that Labour will replace).
- US politics will continue to be dominated by Donald Trump
- In the US Presidential election in November there will be victory for the Republican Party.
- AI/Deepfakes have a significant effect in electoral politics.
- Conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine unresolved by end of 2024.
- No progress for those wanting marriage equality in the Church of England.
- Twitter goes bust or is sold or both.
- The world will be warmer in 2024 than ever before.
- Another country will join Nato.
- A new agreement is reached between the UK and Greece on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles that opens the door for at least some of them to be displayed in Athens.
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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