Rowland Croucher
Richard Dawkins and the John Mark Ministries website
In Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion (2006), there’s a quote about/from Martin Luther: ‘Martin Luther was well aware that reason was religion’s arch-enemy, and he frequently warned of its dangers: “Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the […]
Doubt and faith
Doubt means rejecting conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith. ‘On this level, the division between Believer and Unbeliever ceases to be so crystal clear. It’s not that some are all right and others all wrong; all are bound to seek in honest perplexity. Everybody is an Unbeliever more or less!’ […]
Power of a lyric – Love Rescue Me
‘Love rescue me, come forth and speak to me. Raise me up and don’t let me fall. No man is my enemy, my own hands imprison me. Love rescue me…I’m here without a name, in the palace of my shame…Love rescue me’ – U2, Love Rescue Me Most, if not all, of what we say […]
Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 8 February 2010 KAZAKHSTAN: WOMEN’S PRAYERS LEAD TO MASSIVE FINE – AND MORE? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1405 Kazakhstan has fined Zhanna-Tereza Raudovich 100 times the […]
Stress, Burnout and Ex-Pastors – Resources
Hi friends, I just sent this to members of the Facebook Ex-Pastors group… (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12229003170 ) About once every week or two I’m asked * How many ex-pastors are there in Australia? * Why that huge attrition rate? The NCLS and Christian Research Association are the best people to ask about trends/statistics. In terms of the […]
Atheism’s true believers gather
February 13, 2010 As religious extremism grows, its opponents are getting organised. Jacqueline Maley reports. Something you will never see: an atheist boarding a plane with a bomb strapped to him, waving a copy of On The Origin Of Species, before he blows himself up in a violent attempt to further his cause. So says […]
Evicted from a (Sydney) Anglican Church
Pastor’s ban sparks unholy Anglican stoush SEAN NICHOLLS AND JACQUELINE MALEY February 13, 2010 A parishioner who says he has been wrongly exiled has placed his faith in the Supreme Court, write Sean Nicholls and Jacqueline Maley. THE first sign of trouble for Bruce Haddon came at an impromptu meeting with his pastor, the Reverend […]
Psychologist banned after exorcisms
a.. By Kate Sikora c.. February 13, 2010 A PSYCHOLOGIST who helped perform exorcisms on his patients and believed in “satanic abuse” has been banned from practising by the state’s health watchdog. Father-of-six Mark Edward Tynan, of the western Sydney-based Christian group Servants of Jesus, was found to have blurred his spiritual beliefs and professional […]
The Threat of fundmentalism?
The threat of fundmentalism? Some Christian and Muslim Perspectives: Compass Review of Topic l Theology , Winter 2004. Volume 38, No 2, 14-18. by Trish Madigan OP … All fundamentalisms, in whatever context they emerge, tend to share some common features. They can be described as ‘a process of selective retrieval, embellishment and construction of […]
Resisting Modernity: The Backlash against Secularism
Journal article by Karen Armstrong; Harvard International Review, Vol. 25, 2004 Resisting Modernity: The Backlash against Secularism. by Karen Armstrong By the middle of the 20th century, pundits and intellectuals in the West generally took it for granted that secularism was the coming ideology and that religion would never again play a major role in […]
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