Religion in the Public Sphere

"There is a widespread fear that religion is being treated as a problem to British society, best solved by airbrushing it from the public sphere."
-Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

"We are witnessing a social phenomenon that is about fundamentalism. Atheists like the Richard Dawkins of this world are just as fundamentalist as the people setting off bombs on the tube, the hardline settlers on the West Bank and the anti-gay bigots of the Church of England. Most of them would regard each other as destined to fry in hell."
-Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark

"The study of other people's religious beliefs is now no longer merely desirable, but necessary for our very survival."
-Karen Armstrong

Monday, January 18, 2010

Also, I forgot to mention that Mr. Davis invited me to Oxford for a weekend in March to attend the Las Casas Institute International Conference titled "Renewing the European Catholic Social Conscience - Evidence And Inspiration." The chair of the conference is Rt Rev William Kenney CP, Bishop For Europe, and several prominent professors, church leaders, and thinkers from all over Europe will be speaking. Pretty sweet!