Rowland Croucher
Churches calculate their risks
How much of our time is [risk management] eating up? And how much time are we spending doing what God wants us to do? READ ON
Requiem for a Species
The hope-free zone KELSEY MUNRO February 27, 2010 Clive Hamilton, in his new book, says the world is on a path to an unpleasant future. You could not accuse Clive Hamilton of peddling false hope. In his new book, Requiem for a Species, he sees no hope at all. The Australian National University professor and […]
Christian Families and their Gay Child
28 February 2010 For the Bible Tells Me So http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s2807909.htm
What Would Jesus Do If Invited to a Gay Wedding?
I’ve recently been invited to a couple of gay weddings. So — what with being Christian and all — I asked myself the famous question, “What would Jesus do?” (Which I don’t too often ask myself, actually, since Jesus could, for instance, raise people from the dead and turn water into wine, whereas I can […]
The Jesus Prayer
From an online friend: Guidance on the Practice of the Jesus Prayer “Say the prayer into God’s ear” Saint Theophan tells us that it is through asceticism that we purify our heart. He outlines two ways for doing this. The first is with ascetic labors and the other is by turning our mind to God. […]
Nuclear Weapons
Weapons of mass persuasion by Daniel Flitton February 22, 2010 Imagine stuffing your underpants with explosive powder to bring down a commercial plane. If Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab did not have such deadly intentions, his method of attack would seem almost laughable. So it’s a pity that instead of focusing on the seriousness of the plot, […]
Peace
A group of American seminarians visited a former student, now a monk at one of the monasteries at Mount Athos. George asked him ‘Have you found peace here?’ The young monk touched him on the chest and replied ‘George, peace is within your heart. If you don’t find it there you won’t find it anywhere […]
Fowler’s Stages of Faith
Sent by a friend (February 2010): Stages of Faith, by James W. Fowler (published in paperback by Harper Collins, 1995.) Stage 1–Magical World ages 2-6, perceives the world through lens of imagination and intuition unrestrained by logic e.g., lives in a magical world in which anything is possible Stage 2–Concrete Family ages 6-12, sees the […]
Brokenness
From a retired pastor-friend: During World War II a bomb scored an indirect hit and shattered the beautiful stained-glass rose window in the Reims Cathedral, France. The members of the congregation got down on their hands and knees and picked up all the small glass fragments of the window. After the war, they hired some […]
Timeline : Fundamentalism Vs Contemporary Theology
Sent by a liberal / anti-fundamentalist friend: There is no ‘the Bible’ that ‘claims’ to be divinely inspired, there is no ‘it’ that has a ‘view of itself’. … There is no such thing as ‘the Bible’s view of itself’ from which a fully authoritative answer to these questions can be obtained. … The most […]
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