24.02.2016
Spring Edition of Search Journal Out This Weekend
An excerpt from the late Valerie Jones’ forthcoming book, “Rebel Prods of 1916”, features in the spring issue of SEARCH, out this week–end (February 28). The story of a North Dublin family playing a front line role in the Easter Rising is offered by her daughter, Dr Heather Jones, who has been collating Valerie’s research for publication later this year.
Given the fall–out from the January primates’ meeting in Canterbury, which threatened to marginalise America’s Episcopal Church (TEC) on account of its acceptance of same–sex marriage, TEC leader Bishop Michael Curry’s gracious restraint and steadfastness has impressed many. Two views of the first black presiding bishop of TEC are offered in this issue,one by a TEC priest who is also black, one by a white woman who worked with him closely in North Carolina.
With the Church of Ireland Select Committee’s “Guide to the Conversation” now available, we are called once again to “listen, learn and dialogue” about same–sex relationships between Christians. An interview with the Committee’s chairman, Dean John Mann, aims to show us the way ahead.
Also in the field of relationship between Christians, the matter of domestic violence is confronted, with some shocking results. To what extent is violence against women, even clergy wives, tolerated in the Church today? The evidence is alarming.
This issue also offers a new view on “election” rooted in the Genesis story of Jacob and Esau, an exploration by a leading imam of the Qur’an’s attitude to Christianity, and an In Retrospect on Archbishop John Ward Armstrong.