Rowland Croucher
Why did the chicken cross the road?
SARAH PALIN: The chicken crossed the road because, gosh-darn it, he’s a maverick! BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change! JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on […]
Allah: A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf, HarperCollins, published February 2011)
[1] 23 March 2011. Miroslav Volf – a high profile ‘Progressive Evangelical’ (my term) theologian – has written a recently-published book about Islam and Christianity – the book I’ve been waiting for! From The Publishers Weekly: ‘Recent disputes like the “ground zero” mosque controversy have their roots in historical conflicts, according to Yale professor and author […]
Jesus Seminar: Scholarly Critique
The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar Birger A. Pearson Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara NB: This article appears as originally submitted it to the Claremont Graduate School for publication as no. 35 in the “Occasional Papers” series of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Dr. Pearson’s Preface refers to […]
The Wonder of Religion
By Sam Keen Religion is under attack by a new breed of militant atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. They insist that all forms of monotheism, even the most liberal and progressive, are murderous, intolerant and irrational. According to Hitchens, ¢â‚¬Å“atheism is a necessary condition for the emancipation of the mind. ¢â‚¬ […]
Church politics
Repenting of a Political Mindset By Chaplain Mike NOTE: Either I have communicated poorly or my use of the word ¢â‚¬Å“political ¢â‚¬ has thrown some of you off in terms of the focus of this post. I am using the words ¢â‚¬Å“politics ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“political ¢â‚¬ in their more informal, secondary sense in what follows. Dictionary.com includes the […]
How to win an argument . . . like a Christian
By Guest Blogger Andy Zehner Chaplain Mike made a nice post last Friday regretting what happens when Christians get ¢â‚¬Å“political. ¢â‚¬ By adding my own bit here I affirm what he said. Anything we do from a desire to score off someone else is wrong. But there ¢â‚¬â„¢s another point I would add. It is too small a […]
Pray for the World March 21, 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATORS ON THE MARCH IN BAHRAIN * CHRISTIAN LEADER CLAIMS CHRISTIAN DIVORCE RATE A MYTH * JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI * CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF IRELAND WASHES FEET OF ABUSED VICTIMS * PROTESTS IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST * TONY BLAIR SPEAKS OUT ON MATTERS OF FAITH ———————————————– […]
Faith, Belief and Convictions
Do you really believe this stuff? by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Do you own your faith? I mean really own it. Or is it something that has ‘always been there’? Many of us have grown up in households where Christian faith was practised, at least nominally, and sometimes it has helped us and sometimes it […]
Words that wound
“Curses Left and Right: Hate Speech and Biblical Tradition” by Brian M. Britt The abstract reads: “Hate speech has been defined as ‘words that wound,’ but legal arguments to restrict such words have been unable to show how language *in itself* can have power. Such power is inconsistent with secularist ideas of language that consider […]
The Rite Journey
Dear Principal, Head of Pastoral Care, Head of Senior School, Head of Middle School, Year 9 Co-ordinator, Interested staff This evening, ABCTV’s program 7.30 (the ‘new’ local version of Stateline) is screening a segment on a significant new educational initiative that has come out of South Australia called The Rite Journey. It is a program […]
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