that "at least six people have died in Britain after being told they had been healed of HIV and could stop taking their medication", and they have evidence of evangelical churches in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow also claiming that people with HIV can be cured by spritual intervention.
These are which raise questions about the ethics of "healing" ministries in churches across the country. Not that every church or every healing ministry should be tarred with the same brush: responsible pastors would never advise anyone with HIV to stop taking their prescribed medicine, and those pastors would be the first to challenge those churches that have endangered people's lives with that advice.
Last month, the 91Èȱ¬ reported on similar cases of HIV-positive people stop their medication on medication on the advice of pastors.
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Imagine a shelf of books in your home. But not just any books.
These are the best books, the most important books, the most celebrated or most deserving of celebration, to have come out of Northern Ireland.
In this series of the Book Programme, we go in search of The Great Ulster Book.
It could be a novel, a poetry collection, a history book, a memoir, a political book -- any book you think merits a place on our shelf.
You can use this thread to add your suggestions to the list of nominations from our programme guests or debate the place of any particular book.
What are we missing so far?
Which absolutely indispensable Ulster writer is not currently on our list?
by Robert MacLiam Wilson -- Glenn Patterson
by Sinead Morrissey -- Leon Litvack
by Brian Moore -- Bernard McLaverty
by John Hewitt -- Michael Longley
by Michael McLaverty -- Grania McFadden
by Louis MacNeice -- Eunice Yeates
by Glenn Patterson -- Carlo Gebler
by Glenn Patterson -- Liam Clarke
by Sam Hanna-Bell -- Fionola Meredith
by Mary McNeill -- Eamonn Phoenix
by Stephen Davison --Claire McCollum
by Patrick Kavanagh -- Paddy Heaney
by McKittrick, Kelters, Feeney and Thornton -- Nell McCafferty
by Jonathan Swift -- Rosie Pelan
by Ciaran Carson -- Eamonn Hughes
T- James Ussher -- Rev Ian Paisley
by Sam MacBratney -- Melissa McCullough
Tby Garth Ennis -- David Booth
by Seamus Heaney -- William Crawley
It's one of the most difficult questions any priest or minister has to address in a sermon. How do you make sense of God's relationship with all the evil and suffering we see in the world?
Here's one approach to that crucial issue which doesn't pull its punches. It's a sermon by the (read his blog ), who lectures in New Testament studies at Glasgow University. The sermon in full is below the fold.
If you come across a sermon or address that raises interesting or original ideas worth exploring, let me know.
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The Occupy protests outside St Paul's Cathedral continue to dominate the religion news agenda. Three cathedral clergy have now resigned and we've embarked on a full-scale public debate about whether the Church of England has lost the plot. You can comment on that debate here, or add suggestions to other stories worth noting.
Dr Giles Fraser addresses Occupy
Archbishop of York attacks
Archbishop of Canterbury: '
Church of England vetoes services of
Ireland closure of Vatican embassy
Richard Dawkins: 'Somebody as intelligent as
Intellectual Roots of Wall St. Protest Lie in .
Scientists and autism:
