Rowland Croucher
Fundamentalism: Religion’s Worst Enemy
RELIGION IS POETRY OR IT IS NOTHING! By Paul Collins ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 10 DEC 2010 Is religion really under threat in the contemporary world? Yes, I think it is, but not from the diatribes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and their confreres. A much more serious threat comes from fundamentalism, from the […]
Faith and Enlightenment (Rowan Williams)
CRITICAL SOLIDARITY BETWEEN FAITH AND ENLIGHTENMENT By Rowan Williams ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 13 DEC 2010 Sir Isaiah Berlin was for me, as for most academics of my generation, something of an iconic figure, and his are works I return to very regularly with enormous profit. So for me it’s one way of paying […]
Feast of the Holy Innocents December 27th
*Feast of the Holy Innocents: Prayers and peace procession from Victoria Barracks to Defence Plaza, Monday December 27 1pm-3pm.* In the days after Christmas, while most people are recovering from the indulgence of Christmas Day or deeply immersed in the liturgy of the Boxing Day Test, the Church calendar commemorates the Holy Innocents, the children […]
Diversity vs Orthodoxy
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination With Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity, by Andreas J. K ƒ ¶stenberger and Michael J. Kruger booknews.com explains: “New Testament scholars K ƒ ¶stenberger (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Kruger (Reformed Theological Seminary, North Carolina) challenge the pluralist and postmodernist purveyors of religious diversity who claim that orthodoxy was […]
Power over, for, and with
Power is not innately bad. It’s how it’s used that can be problematic. There’s a difference between power over, power for and power with. Power with is the best option because it involves empowering others and sharing power; sometimes power for is necessary when it isn’t possible to empower the other and that power over […]
Why Bhutan Wants Anti-Conversion Law
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report December 13, 2010 Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas in South Asia, will soon have a law providing for imprisonment of three years for ¢â‚¬Å“proselytization. ¢â‚¬ Last week, the parliament of Bhutan approved inclusion of a new provision in the Penal Code to ban religious conversions by force or […]
Age does not fan the rock’n’roll flame
Mark Mordue December 14, 2010 It would be fair to say that U2’s latest album No Line on the Horizon is the sound of a great band falling to their knees and failing. And that their 360 ° Tour is an attempt to refresh what that album attempted as well as reinforce their position as the […]
Growing Together in Spirituality: Pastor and Parish Have a Check-Up
Parish clergy today are caught in a dilemma with regard to their role as pastors. Some voices are urging us to forsake entirely the use and connotation of the nouns “pastor” and “flock,” arguing that such conceptions have no place in a world come of age. Yet the understanding of the clergy as guides in […]
Is Time Spent Online Cutting into the Clergy’s Prayer Time?
“Prayer is not easy,” the spiritual writer Henri Nouwen constantly reminded his readers. Hearing what he called “the still, small voice of love” amid the cacophony of secular voices calling for attention needs special effort: “It requires solitude, silence and a strong determination to listen.” The Internet has not made the spiritual life any easier. […]
Who Sank the Titanic?
The plane leaves Heathrow Airport under the control of a Jewish captain. His copilot is Chinese. It’s the first time they’ve flown together and an awkward silence between the two seems to indicate a mutual dislike. Once they reach cruising altitude, the Jewish captain activates the auto-pilot, leans back in his seat, and mutters, ‘I […]
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