The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA has announced that it has selected Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie as its new president and general secretary, marking the first time that an African American woman has led the ecumenical organization.
that you ve written books on religion as well, do you concur with suzannah that the anointing and actually that is perhaps the most special part about what we are going to see today, even though we are not really going to see it? well, i think it is the most profound element of today in many ways is that this will be, perhaps, the most watched religious ceremony that i can think of around the world. it is fundamentally an anglican and christian service. i know that the king has taken pains to make it more ecumenical, but at the heart of it, is the holy eucharist, as rendered by thomas kreminna, who wrote the book of calvin prayer in the 16th century, and so this language, the symbolism, the scripture, this is a deeply rooted service in a tradition