Bishop Mwamba calls on press to be "gracious and balanced"
From Ecumenical News International via ELO: "The rest of the world needs to know that apart from press coverage in the West, the gay issue is not a pre-occupation of the poor," said the Zambian-born [Trevor] Mwamba. "And we don't...
Walter Wink says that in Jesus' teaching about prayer he gives us the secret of his miracle-working power. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media
I am not a doctor,
but I play one in Sudan
The hardest part for me is when my Sudanese friends trust me to do things that I know are beyond me. Such as when I was asked, at 4 o’clock one morning, to deliver a baby – by Caesarian section. Or when a student asked me to extract his rotting molar. Or when one friend, knowing that I had had an emergency appendectomy while in the United States, decided that meant I was qualified to do the same for one of his relatives.
I remember very vividly the first time that I ever saw Dr. Gallaudet. I was a candidate for Holy Orders. I do not want to say anything to give anybody pain--certainly not a priest of the Church, whose office it is to minister in the City of New York; but I was wandering about the streets of New York on a summer day--it was in August, I remember--to find, if I might, a church that was open on a Sunday afternoon in August.
