Rowland Croucher
Islam and Christianity: getting the differing perspectives right
Archbishop of Dhimmitude? A press release from Lambeth The following press release from Lambeth Palace, issued on Tuesday June 14, has some positive features, including its concern for religious freedom and religious rights. However it has grave weaknesses, quite apart from the mis-naming of the OIC (it is the Organisation for the Islamic Conference, not […]
CONSERVATISM AND HATRED
Naming Hate If you tell me that being who I am is sinful and that I must repent of who I am to be worthy of God…. If you use these views to spread fear and self loathing amongst people like me, causing much anguish among and contributing to self-harm by and violence against me […]
Attitudes towards Abortion among American Religious Groups
*Sightings* 6/13/2011 — Martin E. Marty Life is short, and if you want to spend what ¢â‚¬â„¢s left of it examining the results of the latest poll of attitudes towards abortion, follow the link to the Public Religion Research Institute and receive the unsummarized set of findings. If you have other uses with that time and […]
Egypt: Salafis’ Agenda behind Christian Persecution
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ————————————————————- June 13, 2011 A recent spate of violence in Egypt, mostly incited by conservative Salafi Muslims after President Hosni Mubarak ¢â‚¬â„¢s downfall, has left over 24 killed, more than 200 wounded and three churches destroyed. The perception of threat to the Christians is so severe that many of them are […]
Theological Liberalism and Christology
In the preface to Paul Between Damascus and Antioch Martin Hengel decried in the current scholarly scene ‘a radical form of criticism which in the end must be said to be uncritical, because it wants neither really to understand the sources nor to interpret them, but basically destroys them in order to make room for […]
Prisoners in the State of Victoria, Australia:
Prisoners in the State of Victoria, Australia: 90% of males, 80% of females haven’t completed high school; 60% of males 76% of females were unemployed when imprisoned; Indigenous Australians are 14 times more likely to be imprisoned; 50% of prisoners have two or more ‘social disadvantages’ (homelessness, psych issues, unemployment, intellectual disability etc.); 87% of […]
Pray for the world June 13 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * GADDAFI’S DAUGHTER GIVES RARE GLIMPSE INTO THE LIFE OF HER FAMILY * POKIE USE TRIPLES IN CHRISTCHURCH SINCE EARTHQUAKE * NIGERIAN CHURCH LEADERS CALL FOR ENQUIRY INTO ELECTION VIOLENCE * SYRIAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS REFORMS * U.K. MUM OVERJOYED HER SON SURVIVED ABORTION * THOUSANDS OF WEST PAPUANS RALLY TO DEMAND […]
Evangelism: does our preaching include the deity of Jesus?
Incarnation and Gospel A tantalizing subject is the the relevance of the incarnation for gospel proclamation. Let us remember that the first Christians were not given a private revelation of the Nicene and Chalcedonian Creeds in advance. The evangelistic sermons of the early church did not begin with Four Spiritual Laws about the holiness of […]
Love is an Orientation (Andrew Marin, IVP, 2009)
Update (March 2013): Andrew and Brenda has just visited Melbourne. I was privileged to chair a meeting we convened for church leaders and others. I also heard them both speak at St Martins’ Collingwood. (See below for my notes from these two occasions. They are two very special people). (I didn’t include this bit, from […]
Clean Humo[u]r
A man was telling his neighbor in Mesa , ‘I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it’s state of the art. It’s perfect.’ ‘Really,’ answered the neighbor. ‘What kind is it?’ ‘Twelve thirty.’ ================================= Teacher: Why do we sometimes call the Middle Ages the Dark Ages? Peter: Because […]
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