Rowland Croucher
Exorcism – pro and con
The visit to Australia of Fr Gabriele Amorth, an exorcist in Rome, aroused some comment. Most related exorcism to the wild eyed, brow furrowed,bloodstained spiritual shoot-outs portrayed in popular culture. When reflecting more soberly on the practice of exorcism within the churches, it is helpful to ask three related questions. The first question concerns how […]
Mum! All I want for Christmas is this and this and this and that!
As a parent of a 10 year old boy, I have struggled with gift ideas at Christmas since he was very young. I always had grand notions of what I would like to give him, although when he was old enough to start writing lists, it seemed our ideas didn’t align. As a parent, of […]
Power and Love
From a thoughtful pastor-friend: I recently read a book by a Jewish peacemaker, Adam Kahane, Power and Love, in which he explores the generative and degenerative aspects of both power and love. He bases his work on the framework developed by Paul Tillich as follows: Power – the drive of everything living to realize itself, […]
CANADA: Young People Forsaking the Church
MICHAEL VALPY From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 9:00PM EST BY THE NUMBERS The state of religion in Canada today If the future for institutional religion in Canada lies in the hearts and minds of the young, a dark night is sweeping down on the country’s churches, synagogues and temples. Young Canadians, […]
Blue Christmas
For many of us, Christmas is a bittersweet time of year. It is a time for remembering both persons and events that have been a part of our lives in the past, but that are now changed or gone. Some excellent resources here – http://www.nbdumc.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=39661&PID=623462
Second Coming of Christ (John Henry Newman)
‘Up to Christ’s coming in the flesh [he said] the course of things ran straight towards that end, nearing it by every step, but now, under the Gospel, that course has (if I may so speak) altered its direction, as regards His second coming, and runs, not towards the end, but along it, and on […]
FOLKSY HUMOUR
So one day, Gramma sent her grandson Johnny down to the water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him. He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Gramma’s kitchen. “Well now, where’s my bucket and where’s my water?” […]
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TRENDS IN 2010
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 086 | Wed 15 Dec 2010 By Elizabeth Kendal 'In whom do you now trust?' (Isaiah 36:5b ESV) Religious liberty is in decline globally. Consequently persecution of Christians and repression of Christian humanitarianism and proclamation are on the increase globally. In the non-West, persecution of Christians continued to escalate […]
World Religions – December 2010
Barney Zwartz December 13, 2010 CHRISTIANITY remains the world’s biggest religion, but Islam is catching up while non-belief increased enormously over the past century but is now in sharp decline, according to the Christian Research Association. Australian religious trends of rising agnosticism and declining Christianity contradict most of the world, the association reports in its […]
I Believe… (do you?)
if you make it to the end of this email, then you are a true believer… I Believe… That just because two people argue, It doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just because they don’t argue, It doesn’t mean they do love each other. I Believe… That we don’t have to change friends […]
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