When north and south agree

A COUPLE of days ago, a seniorAfrican clericwas holdingforth on the need to combine religious instructionwith, in the broadest sense, sex education.Both at home and at school,declared Archbishop Henri Isingoma, boys must be taught about the higher purposeof sex as "the way Godwanted to make the human race continue". Another acute problem, he added, was"ignorance of the responsibilities of men towards women."He was speakingin a webinar organised by a department of the global Anglicanchurch, drawing in clergy and church workers from their own and other Christian confessions.So...was this one moredespressing displayof thegiant cultural gap between the liberal north and the traditionalsouth, especially over sexuality,which istearing apart the 80m-strong Anglican Communion, andmany other religiousbodies'No, it was nothing of the kind, and that's what made the...Continue reading
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