Technology…or behaviour?
My daughter pointed out to me that in virtually all books written before the Industrial Revolution that imagine future time-travel, none of them imagine technological improvement. Rather they look at future human behaviour. PICTURE: Ales Nesetril/Unsplash. Technological improvements were inconceivable before the industrial revolution, now they are the focus of almost all future discussion. And behaviour is […]
The Interview: Vance Pitman, US megachurch pastor, on why he resigned as top leader at his Las Vegas church
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks with Vance Pitman, who has resigned last December as senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas to take on a new role as president of Send Network, the church-planting arm of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board…
Life “very hard” for Sri Lankan fishermen in financial squall
Negombo, Sri Lanka Reuters After three weeks at sea, Anton Fernando tallies his sales of tuna and other fish on a dock in Negombo, a fishing town in Sri Lanka, where the country’s financial crisis darkens already murky waters. The math does not look good for Fernando and his crew of four among the dozen […]
Essay: Five lessons recent church leadership failures can teach us
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JENNIFER R FARMER, author of ‘First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life’, says there are clear reasons why our leadership is not performing to the standards we should expect…
This Life: Jesus is in our boat
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about how, even as her life turned upside-down thanks to floods, she’s felt assured “Jesus is taking every muddy step with us”…
In the US, New Jersey diocese agrees to $US87.5 million deal to settle sex abuse suits
Trenton, New Jersey AP A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $US87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic Church in the United States. The agreement between the Diocese of Camden, which encompasses six counties in southern […]
UK PM Johnson apologises to parliament over lockdown breaches
London, UK Reuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised to parliament on Tuesday after he was fined by police for breaking lockdown rules, saying he did not know a birthday gathering at the height of the pandemic was in breach of the rules he had set. Opposition lawmakers argue that the Prime Minister must go, […]