English - Clergyman | 1945 -
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
Timothy Radcliffe
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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
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Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
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Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
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We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
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This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.
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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
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What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
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Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
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Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
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