Rowland Croucher
Mary McKillop and the Australian soul
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com The extraordinary media outpouring over the canonisation of Mary McKillop this week shows that there is still a deep yearning for something spiritual in the Australian psyche. Despite our insanely hedonistic and materialistic outlook on life in this culture, there is still something deep in the hearts of Australians that […]
CRACKS IN THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
I have been watching over the past two years with a growing sense of sadness the financial crisis overwhelming the Crystal Cathedral, the famous TV Church in Garden Grove California. This was the home of the televangelist show “Hour of Power.” It has filed for bankruptcy in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt […]
Australians at War
19 OCTOBER 2010 Lest we forget RICHARD FLANAGAN Lest we forget we reverentially intone every Anzac Day and yet we forget all the time. We forget that out of the 102,000 Australians who have died in wars since Federation, only 40,000 died during World War II. We forget that all those other wars in which […]
Preaching is Primary
Preaching is Primary Christian Standard Magazine, Reflections Section An Interview of Dr. Myron J. Taylor by L.D. Campbell Preaching has always been primary in our churches. Our churches have produced some great preachers, men whose names are synonymous with preaching. Myron Taylor is one of the great preachers in our brotherhood. He recently retired from […]
The Perfect Mirror (Jn 18:1-19:37)
The Perfect Mirror (Jn 18:1-19:37) by Barbara Brown Taylor There are many ways to tell the story of what happened on Good Friday. According to John, it involved a collision between religion and politics. While Pilate and the chief priests conspired to solve their mutual problem while managing to remain enemies, Jesus stood at the […]
God and Human Suffering
Reflections on Douglas John Hall ¢â‚¬â„¢s God and Human Suffering: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross Mark D. Baker Driving down the hill from my house in Tegucigalpa, as an evening rain began, I noticed a common sight. Someone was walking along the road carrying a bundle. Those of us with a lot more […]
THE JESUS WHO WAS and WHO IS
by Frederick Buechner The Jesus who was is that fathomless, elusive, unpredictable, haunting, and finally unknowable figure who moves through the homely landscapes of the Synoptics and the twilit dreamscapes of John like a figure in an old newsreel. The film is scratched and faded. Some patches are almost blindingly light-struck and others all but […]
Americans and War
JUST HOW REALISTIC IS JUST WAR? By Stanley Hauerwas ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 27 OCT 2010 FOR AMERICANS WAR IS A NECESSITY TO SUSTAIN THE BELIEF THAT THEY ARE WORTHY TO BE RECIPIENTS OF THE SACRIFICES MADE ON OUR BEHALF IN PAST WARS. Pacifists always bear the burden of proof. They do so because, […]
The Historical Jesus and the Life of Faith
by David L. Bartlett David L. Bartlett is Lantz Professor of Communication and Preaching at Yale University Divinity School. This article appeared in The Christian Century, May 6, 1992, pp. 489-493. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. Article prepared for Religion Online […]
The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology (N T Wright)
(Originally published in Sewanee Theological Review 39, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT The quest for the historical Jesus began as a protest against traditional Christian dogma, but when the supposedly ¢â‚¬Ëœ ¢â‚¬Ëœneutral ¢â‚¬ historians peered into the well, all they saw was a featureless Jesus. Even when scholars decided that other biblical […]
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