Rowland Croucher
Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry
Clergy Self-Care: Finding a Balance for Effective Ministry, by Roy M Oswald (Alban Institute, 1991) is still one of the best books on stress and burnout in Christian ministry. Roy Oswald has been ¢â‚¬Ëœthrough it ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬“ his own burnout, mid-life crisis, divorce, four years of heavy psychoanalysis etc. ¢â‚¬“ and for a couple of decades […]
Australian Census June 2012
Old trend no leap of faith Barney Zwartz June 22, 2012 People professing no religion are the second largest religious grouping after Catholics in the 2011 census. Photo: Reuters PEOPLE professing no religion have moved past Anglicans to be the second-largest grouping after Catholics in the 2011 Census. Nearly 4.8 million people said they had […]
Tenjooberrymuds
Don’t worry about the Subject “Tenjooberrymuds.” It will make sense after you read the following. I was recently in Miami and decided to learn the Spanish language, so I could understand the check-outs at McDonald’s. My next move is to learn Indian, so I can understand my doctors and the person who answers the phone […]
Meat: to eat or not to eat?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 6/20/2012 Meat: An Ethical Challenge for Theologians Call for Submissions Last month the New York Times Magazine ran a contest inviting essayists to argue for eating meat. According to Ariel Kaminer, the Times’ Ethicist, the five contest judges are […]
Humo[u]r
A man was in the kitchen making a lot of noise! His wife comes in and asks why he was making so much noise? The man replies: “I am killing flies.” A short time later his wife came back and he was still making lots of noise! She asks: “Well, Mr.Big Shot, how many flies […]
A Fly-over Of Jerusalem
This is beautiful. What a great way to see Jerusalem. Some of the others at the end are quite interesting as well. An IMAX fly over of Jerusalem. After a year of research and preparation, this giant IMAX 3D screen film, JERUSALEM , is scheduled for worldwide release in 2013. The film takes you on a spectacular […]
Cardinal Pell – the next Pope???
Our man in Rome June 16, 2012 Rome, sweet Rome ¢â‚¬ ¦ Cardinal George Pell in the chapel at Domus Australia ¢â‚¬“ a $30-million guest house and place of worship for Australian Catholics in Rome. Photo: Susan Wright As the Australian Catholic Church’s most powerful figure, Cardinal George Pell sees it as his task to keep […]
Weeping With A Walleye
Some years ago an American research centre conducted an experiment with a walleyed pike. They placed the fish in an aquarium and fed it regularly. Then, after a time, they inserted an invisible glass plate into the aquarium, sealing off part of it. They began to put the walleye’s food on the other side of […]
Suffering: Richard Rohr (Job); Anchor Bible Dictionary; Rowan Forster’s Questions
Richard Rohr: Job and the Mystery of Suffering (1996). Jottings to ponder… ¢â‚¬ËœYou ¢â‚¬â„¢ve lost your child but he ¢â‚¬â„¢s up in heaven now ¢â‚¬â„¢ is a sufficient answer only if you haven ¢â‚¬â„¢t lost a child. If we haven ¢â‚¬â„¢t been there our reactions will be empty, academic. There are two types of suffering (Carl Jung): little ego […]
Lonely Priest
Sightings 6/18/2012 Lonely Priest — Martin E. Marty Surveys, statistics, data, graphs, and trend studies have their place when we look at and analyze the ¢â‚¬Å“church life ¢â‚¬ (and ¢â‚¬Å“synagogue life, ¢â‚¬ and all the rest) that makes up a major part of ¢â‚¬Å“public religion, ¢â‚¬ (our weekly topic) in American life. They tell us how things are, collectively […]
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