Rowland Croucher
Bonhoeffer’s Best Quote
‘Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of the church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace without price, grace without cost. Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. [It is] forgiveness without repentance… communion without confession, grace without discipleship’. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 1963, 45-7, […]
‘JUDEO-CHRISTIAN’ OR ‘JUDEO-MUSLIM’?
The term “Judeo-Christian” has been tossed around quite a bit during my lifetime. I always viewed it with suspicion, its use generally marshaled in support of some politico-religious agenda, usually accompanied by bombast and flag-waving. A cursory examination of the history of the phrase [1] reveals that its meaning has evolved quite a bit since […]
Universalism
Robert Farrar Capon (born 1925) is an American Episcopal priest and author. A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. In 1965, he published his first book, Bed and Board, and in 1977 he left the full-time ministry to devote more time to his […]
GODLY BISHOPS
Godly Bishops I have been nominated for bishop in the Diocese of The Rio Grande. Here are some thoughts about the episcopal office that I wrote some time ago. By The Rev. Leander S. Harding, Ph.D. http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2010/03/23/godly-bishops-2/ April 15, 2010 ***** In what follows I am going to take it as established that the historic […]
Imagine (more on the Tea-Party phenomenon)
Imagine, if you dare… Tim Wise plays a game called “Imagine.” As in, Imagine if the Tea Party were mostly black instead of overwhelmingly white. Imagine how our response to it would change. Let ¢â‚¬â„¢s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called ¢â‚¬Å“Imagine. ¢â‚¬ The way it ¢â‚¬â„¢s played is simple: we ¢â‚¬â„¢ll envision recent happenings in […]
Israel’s Holy War
*Sightings* 4/26/10 Israel ¢â‚¬â„¢s Holy War — Martin E. Marty In eleven years of weekly *Sightings* I can ¢â‚¬â„¢t find that I ever commented on ¢â‚¬Å“public religion ¢â‚¬ in Israel. The U. S. is usually in our sights, and we are aware of participation in or leadership of holy wars by Hindu militants, Muslim extremists, Buddhist monks, and […]
When Tea Partiers Come to Church
By: Chuck Warnock Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 Based on the recent New York Times poll of tea partiers, you are likely to find them sitting in your church pews. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Should pastors or church leaders encourage, discourage or ignore tea partyadvocates among their members or visitors on Sunday morning? Let’s take a […]
Book Review: The Vertical Self (Mark Sayers)
Book Review – The Vertical Self, Mark Sayers, 2009 Mark Sayers’ second book, The Vertical Self, further develops the theme of his earlier work, The Trouble with Paris, by emphasising that only a deep and passionate relationship with Jesus can save us from falling prey to the whims and whispers of our culture of consumerism. […]
An Old Nun
An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways. She decided she would take her lunch, sit with the workers and talk with them. She put her sandwich in a brown bag and […]
A Jump Into The Future
Gavin Gilchrist is the managing director of Big Switch Projects, a company set up ten years ago as an advisory group on energy efficiency and carbon management issues to business and government. In this program Gavin jumps into the future for a look at what life might be like five years from now, in a […]
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