Church

• Mary: Jesus saves and...
• The last things.
• From Dr Tighe: shock and horror as a Catholic bishop restates Catholic teaching. Melkite Bishop of Newton: no biblical rationale for modern Israel as a Jewish state.
• Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law and some other Western women convert to Islam. Seems like a mix of legitimate reasons (wanting to find and please God: the ‘anything goes’ permissive society that I coveted had proved to be a superficial void) and exoticism (like about Tibet) and other feelings (initial highs: ‘I visited Qom and it was, like, totally awesome’). Everything is done to please God. But plenty of boring old churches try to do just that.
• History: Dr T on bad Queen Bess.

Labels: Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, England, history, Palestine, the Catholic faith