Michael McAteer, Author at Anglican Journal

Atheists can be spiritual beings, book argues

Michael McAteer — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:19:00 +0000

Award-winning Toronto architect Gerald Robinson is an adjunct professor of theology, in the divinity faculty at the University of Toronto's Trinity College.

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Anglican ‘civil war’ possible, says author

Michael McAteer — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:00:00 +0000

Having failed to have their way on other controversial issues, conservatives and evangelicals have rallied around the homosexual issue and are determined to win the ongoing battle for the “soul of Anglicanism,” says journalist and author Stephen Bates.”There’s a certain desperation on the part of conservatives that if they lose this issue they’ve lost everything,” […]

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Jamaican churches deal with violence tourists never see

Michael McAteer — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 04:00:00 +0000

Kingston, Jamaica There were 1,045 murders last year across this island nation of 2.6 million – one of the world’s highest murder rates per capita. The grim statistic may mean nothing to the tourists in the secured resort areas of Jamaica’s north coast. Most of the killings take place in the impoverished, violence-prone areas of […]

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Palestinian bishop pleads for support

Michael McAteer — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:00:00 +0000

East Jerusalem Three luxury coaches stand empty outside the Novotel hotel waiting for members of the River States of Nigeria Holy Christian Pilgrimage to take their seats on the next leg of their journey through the Holy Land. If this group tour is like many others, pilgrims will be whisked from holy place to holy […]

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Passions still dominate Jerusalem’s politics

Michael McAteer — Tue, 01 Feb 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Jerusalem With its numerous holy places crammed into a square kilometre of tightly built-up space, the old, walled city in the Judean highlands looks as venerable today as it did when Mark Twain saw it more than 130 years ago. Viewed from the Mount of Olives, it looks benign and at peace, its skyline dominated […]

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Arab Christians among Middle East’s most oppressed

Michael McAteer — Tue, 01 Feb 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Jerusalem TWO THOUSAND years after Christ’s birth, Arab Christians see themselves as a beleaguered community, abandoned by the outside Christian world, facing extinction. They fear the Holy Land could become a museum for tourists bereft of Christianity as a living religion. As the Holy Land prepares to host a record number of pilgrims this millennium […]

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Father heads Mothers’ Union for first time

Michael McAteer — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

(ENS) ? A father now heads the Mothers’ Union for the first time in its 120-year history. Reg Bailey has been appointed as the new chief executive, the first man to hold this position. The organization has a strong commitment to social issues and family values and has one million members in 54 countries around […]

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Gideons set one billion Bibles as anniversary goal

Michael McAteer — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

(ENI)?Gideon International, best known for depositing Bibles in hotel rooms around the world, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The Gideons have set an anniversary goal of giving away a total of one billion Bibles by 2002. They say they have distributed 850 million Bibles to hotels, prisons, military installations, hospitals and airplanes in the past […]

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Anglican Communion must be distinct from Church of England: Ndungane

Michael McAteer — Fri, 01 Oct 1999 04:00:00 +0000

Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town speaks from the heart when he calls for a strengthening of Anglican Communion bonds to offset fallout from last year’s Lambeth Conference. “I feel very passionately about the Anglican Communion,” the archbishop told the Journal in an interview. “There is something unique about it and we should not allow […]

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Ethnic cleansing’ feared in church

Michael McAteer — Wed, 01 Sep 1999 04:00:00 +0000

It has been 14 years since the Book of Alternative Services appeared on the horizon. Now, with General Synod needing to make a decision in 2001 on its future – and potentially also on the Book of Common Prayer – a member of the Prayer Book Society executive said he fears an “ethnic cleansing” of […]

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