Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe
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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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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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
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The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.
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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
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The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
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One of our deepest needs is to be at home.
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I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
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The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
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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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I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
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