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One of our deepest needs is to be at home.
Timothy Radcliffe / Priest
Home
Needs
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All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.
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Faiths
Marked
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We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.
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Flourish
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Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
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Commandments
Seeking
Rules
Primarily
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I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.
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Believe
Christian
Christian Faith
Claims
Doe
Faith Believe I Believe
Indeed
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Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
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Doe
Intolerance
Violence
Breed
Claiming
Wrapped
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I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
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Relationship
Believe
Humanity
Resurrection
Transformed
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At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
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Centre
Christianity
Community
Good Christian
Lord
Altar
Gathered
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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
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Confidence
Smile
Lost
Our Society
Reason
Except
Scientific
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To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
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Confidence
Quality
Smile
Contradictory
Humility
Preacher
Two
Apparently
Qualities
Requires
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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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Challenges
Christianity
Next
Europeans
Seek
Remind
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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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Christ
Church
Humanity
Medieval
Resurrection
Believed
Marked
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Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
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Commandments
Morality
Reformation
Thinking
Way
New Way
Relatively
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Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
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Christ
Christian
Judaism
Stories
Christians
Indeed
Rightly
Silenced
Spoken
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We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
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Fog
Frodo
Knowing
Not Knowing
Setting
Identify
Sam
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To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
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Respect
Christianity
Frank
Goodness
Littles
Moral
Teaching
Today
Suspect
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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
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Confidence
Smile
Holocaust
Possibility
Stories
Violence
Shook
Telling
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Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
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Beauty
Admiring
Celibacy
Humanity
Sex
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The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.
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Europe
Keys
Tears
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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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Challenges
Christianity
Church
Contact
Millions
People
God Look People
Big Challenge
Millions Of People
Remain
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What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
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Church
Judgement
Moral
Standing
Teaching
Vast
Europeans
Percentage
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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.
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Relationship
Divine
Narrative
Shapes
Stranger
Religions
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Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.
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Christianity
Europe
People
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The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom.
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Israel
Kingdoms
Stories
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We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.
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Depth
Parent
People
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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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War
Absurdity
Believe
Century
Despite
Genocide
Humans
Lasts
Lunacy
Rational
Last Century
Seek
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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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Atheist
Christian
Religious
Atheists
Believers
Christians
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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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Airports
Exotic
Expertise
Nine
Order
Years
Airport
Master
Except
Foods
Jack
Trades
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Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.
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Prejudice
Priesthood
Would Be
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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.
Timothy Radcliffe / Priest
Travel
Accompany
Beautiful
Christian
Evening
Christians
Search
Specifically
Suggest
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