Rowland Croucher
God, Dawkins and tragic humanism
In a new book, Terry Eagleton argues that liberal humanism woefully underestimates the horrors of which humans are capable guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 June 2009 11.00 BST Another week, another book chastising, or cheering, the new atheists. God can’t have had such publishing appeal since a bunch of renegade Jews, who followed a loser called Jesus, […]
The Perfect Husband
Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A mobile phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: “Hello” WOMAN: “Hi Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?” MAN: “Yes.” WOMAN: “I'm at […]
Pastor Burnout Statistics
You can easily find pastor burnout statistics all over the internet. Some are very overwhelming – like saying that 48% of pastors marriages end in divorce. I for one have my doubts about that one. As do I about quite a few numbers. I wish they were all true – because then my job of […]
Catholics and Anglicans: A New Ecumenism
November 13. 2009 ¢â‚¬“ Gregory Syler Rome ¢â‚¬â„¢s October 20th announcement that it will open the door for former Anglicans to join the Catholic Church led some to respond with suspicion, seeing the move as a conservative commentary on Anglican problems. That morning ¢â‚¬â„¢s AP release, for instance, summarized Cardinal Levada ¢â‚¬â„¢s statement and quickly focused on more […]
Pray for the World June 20, 2011
Australian Prayer Network – Newsletter <[email protected] wrote: AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * BRITISH PRIME MINISTER STUDIES PLANS FOR MULTI-FAITH LORDS * MPs WARN OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES * SYRIAN CHRISTIANS ATTACKED BY ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTORS * ANOTHER MAINLINE AMERICAN DENOMINATION IMPLODES ON SEXUAL STANDARDS * ATHEIST WHO WENT TO HELL, NOW A […]
Social Networks as Bearers of Bad News
Long-time readers might recall that a few years ago, I wrote an editorial titled “Email: Bad Bearer of Bad News?” In that article, I examined the pros and cons of using email to deliver bad news, whether to let someone know about an illness or death, to break up a romance or marriage, or to […]
Good-night Prayers
Prayer of the Selfish Child Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my toys to break… Shel Silverstein Prayer on the Run Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my secret keep […]
Trinity Sunday
Sunday, June 19 Trinity Sunday God for us, we call You Father, God alongside us, we call You Jesus, God within us, we call You Holy Spirit. You are the Eternal Mystery that enables, enfolds, and enlivens all things, even us, and even me. Every name falls short of your Goodness and Greatness. We can […]
Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?
Apologia Report 16:21 (1,071) June 15, 2011 CHRISTOLOGY Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence, by James D. G. Dunn [1] — reviewer T. Scott Manor notes that “Dunn specifies the main thesis that runs throughout his work: ‘worship of Jesus is only possible or acceptable within what is now understood to […]
Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation
[One of the best and most competent recent summaries of the research…] ‘Enduring change to an individual ¢â‚¬â„¢s sexual orientation is uncommon. The participants in this body of research continued to experience same-sex attractions following SOCE and did not report significant change to othersex attractions that could be empirically validated, though some showed lessened physiological arousal to all sexual stimuli. Compelling […]
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