Articles

Philip Huggins Inspired Faith Action and the Culture of UNCOP26

14 Oct 2021  |  Author: Bishop Philip Huggins  | Theme: Leadership and institutions; Religions and dialogue

Reflections by Bishop Philip Huggins for the Interfaith Liaison Committee Webinar. 1. Inspired faith action can ensure cultures are healthier in terms of inclusion; participation; respectful listening; transparency of information and process; warmth of relationships; a generous spirit open to learning from others; reconciled in our diversity and able to take delight in the gift of one another; grateful for the opportunity to be of service, each new day dawning.
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Doug Hynd Ekklesia

14 Oct 2021  |  Author: Doug Hynd  | Theme: Leadership and institutions; Public theology and ethics

Review of: How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace, by Melissa Florer-Bixler. At least in the English-speaking world, the Christian churches are undergoing a series of rolling internal conflicts over their responses to structural racism, white Christian nationalism, welcoming LBQTI people, and sexual abuse. Most of these are being managed very poorly, with perceived enemies within the church, let alone outside it, multiplying on every hand. Practicing enemy love within the church seems a good, indeed necessary (if largely neglected) response.
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The Simple Lesson from Mathatma Ghandi

07 Oct 2021  |  Author: Satendra Nandan  | Theme: Civil society and politics; Public theology and ethics

Gandhi set standards of conduct, personal and political, by which we continue to measure others in our complex COVID-infected, climate-challenged universe.
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Leadership Neuroscience and Pastoral Care

22 Jul 2021  |  Author: Dr Carlos A. Raimondo  | Theme: Leadership and institutions; Public theology and ethics

A commentary from Dr Carlos A. Raimondo on Leadership, Pastoral Care and Ethics, with an invitation to the reader to reflect on the type of leader they would like to be through contemplation on a gospel story, with snippets of neuroscience within the text, in indented paragraphs closing with applications on pastoral care. This is long version of the article featured in Engage 7.
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Comprehending Great Power Relations Today: The Hegelian-Rankean Legacy

08 Apr 2021  |  Author: John Moses  | Theme: Public theology and ethics; Public theology and ethics

The current great power stand-off between China and the USA that has resulted from Chinese expansionist aims in the South China Sea and the threat to absorb Taiwan has little to do with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism but rather more to do with the perceived need to expand Chinese power and economic-cultural influence throughout the world.
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