Craigville colloquy
The Craigville Theological Colloquy is arguably the premier forum on theology within a number of mainline churches, but particularly in the United Church of Christ. Masood was a featured speaker on Islam at the Craigville Theological Colloquy a couple of years ago. Attorney's office issued a press release today announcing that Imam Muhammad Masood of Sharon, MA has been charged with immigration fraud. Hat tip to Gabe Fackre in the UCCtruths message board! That makes the old question more intense because we want someone's life, when it ends in death, to have some meaning" and not simply succumb to the inexplicable. Events are producing "a whole rash of dying, killing, and suffering that for us just doesn't add up. "It's getting harder to give answers that do in fact satisfy," says Richard Coleman, a United Church of Christ minister from Pembroke, Mass.
Attendance this year was unusually high, organizers said, because the collective effect of tragic events β from 9/11 to hurricane Katrina to April's massacre at Virginia Tech β has made the issue more urgent in the faith community. The occasion was the annual Craigville Colloquy, a theological conference of Christians. The theme was βIn the midst of a world of violence and suffering, how can we believe in an almighty and all-loving God?β. The most recent Craigville Theological Colloquy just wrapped up and there's a great story about it today in the Christian Science Monitor.