Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in no way a theologian who wished to be defined by negations. In his prison letters, he deplores the tendency of religious apologists to concentrate on the weaknesses of the secular world-view
03 February 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced the appointment of Tim Livesey as his Secretary for Public Affairs, in succession to Jeremy Harris. Mr Livesey is currently Assistant Director, Strategy and Information at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
02 February 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is to visit Germany and Poland next week (31st Jan - 5th Feb 2006) to attend a major ecumenical theological conference and to take part in the celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
31 January 2006
The 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 14-23 February 2006. Its theme is a prayer: 'God, in your grace, transform the world.'
31 January 2006
The Third Anglican - Lutheran International Commission (ALIC) held its first meeting at the Lutheran Uhuru Hostel in Moshi, Tanzania, between 13th and 19th January, 2006, under the chairmanship of the Rt Revd Fred Hiltz, Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and the Revd Dr Thomas Nyiwe, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon
30 January 2006
The working group Theological Education for the Anglican Communion (TEAC) ended its week-long meeting in South Africa last Saturday with commitments from its members to continue working on concrete proposals for professional, ecumenical, and contextually sensitive theological education
30 January 2006
It is essential for each generation to be able to enter into the terrible events of the Holocaust at the level of knowledge and of feeling and I welcome the Government's grant to the Holocaust Educational Trust to enable more schools to make a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau
26 January 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has described Sheikh Dr Zaki Badawi, who died today, as a 'uniquely effective interpreter of Islam'.
25 January 2006
Prime Minister, friends it's a very great delight to be able to welcome you here on this, I hope, historic occasion. Although today is overshadowed very seriously for all of us by our great loss in the death of Zaki Badawi earlier today, this event also helps to focus something of what we might hope for in the work of this forum.
25 January 2006
Kempton Park, South Africa. - The working group Theological Education for the Anglican Communion (TEAC) took time out of its meeting in South Africa this week to visit local church-based HIV/AIDS projects, and to see some of the realities that theological education must address.
20 January 2006