We took a crew to the Holy Land in October (my second journey there in nine months), where we again met with political and
church leaders on both sides of the wall, taped countless hours of interviews, shot a ton of video and prepped for one of the most robust and, dare I say, important cover stories we've ever published.
Not exact matches
Looking
on the bright
side though, if you have to have a
church leader which is obviously the case here they could do a lot worst.
Naturally, all us have to make a living and do something
on the
side to pay the rent and the
leaders of the
church are no different and usually come from the ranks of successful and talented business people who have a lot to contribute to the Kingdom of God.
As I've shared before, I've been
on both
sides and can honestly say that often leadership abuse is not intentional, but rather the fruit of a very unhealthy way of seeing the role of a
leader — whether in the home, business, or
church.
Robert C. Leslie, a
leader in the field of group pastoral counseling, has observed: «One of the healthiest signs of renewal in the life of the
church is the increasing number of small, intimate, sharing groups which are springing up
on all
sides.»
Whenever McKenna gets arrested following peaceful occupation - style protests
on government property, the police are
on his
side, the magistrates let him go as soon as possible, and now over 200 other
church leaders have also risked arrest as his movement has taken off.
In a striking
leader by its editor, the excellent Luke Coppen, the Herald encouraged its readers «to hold the Corporation to account, notably for the blundering and reckless coverage of the affair
on the BBC's website» and urged the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson (himself a practicing Catholic) «to trawl through the archives of BBC News Online tosee how ignorant and one -
sided reports of «Muslim outrage» helped manufacture a crisis for the
Church that has endangered the lives of Catholics».
The Jerusalem Post: Vatican denies deal with Israel
on security barrier Local
church leaders on Tuesday denied reports that the Vatican has allowed the IDF to build the security fence
on its land in the Cremisan Valley, so that the property could remain
on the Israeli
side of the barrier.