Rowland Croucher
Irish Law on Blasphemy (Bishop Spong)
Would you comment on the recently passed law in Ireland on blasphemy? Dear Sally and Jon: The recently passed law in Ireland against blasphemy, which threatens $35,000 fines for any person who “publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion thereby causing outrage among […]
Beauty Tips for Ministers
*Sightings* 1/14/10 The Sacred and the Sartorial — Courtney Wilder At first blush, the blog Beauty Tips for Ministers does not seem like a hotbed of feminist theology of the body. Written primarily, though not exclusively, for women, the blog includes posts on a wide range of topics related to clergy and their professional dress, […]
Priest Says it’s O K to steal
New morality is a steal BARNEY ZWARTZ January 12, 2010 In 1631, England’s royal printers reprinted the Bible but somehow omitted the ”not” in Exodus 20:14, the seventh commandment concerning adultery. An amusing mistake for everyone but the printers, who were fined £300 and lost their licence, while the archbishop of Canterbury complained about declining […]
Uganda’s ‘kill the gays’ bill
The role of US evangelists in Uganda’s ‘kill the gays’ bill ADRIAN PHOON January 12, 2010 Comments 30 A law proposing execution for homosexuals exposes a murderous fantasy. A recent proposal in Uganda to legislate the execution of homosexuals has sparked international outrage. Although the Government has since revised its prescribed sentence from death to […]
O Lucky Man (Tsutomu Yamaguchi)
Note from Rowland: I don’t like many of Christopher Hitchens’ ideas or his crudity/irreverence, but I like his style! He’s nothing if not entertaining. ***** O Lucky Man By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 “Oh God! There goes another sonofabitch.” —Ram Lutchman in Shiva Naipaul’s Fireflies Last week brought us news of the […]
School Bullying Breeds Adult Bullies
SCHOOL BULLYING BREEDS ADULT BULLIES Almost seven out of 10 Australian adults have been negatively impacted by school bullying and an alarming 41 per cent of those who bullied others at school admit they could do it again in adult life according to new research released by Wesley Mission. The Wesley Mission survey of 1200 […]
How nations deal with terrorist threats
This one’s been around for a while. It’s good for folks who can’t easily laugh at their (national) traits… The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A […]
Catholics and Ecumenism
Disaffected Catholics and ‘bad Catholics’ by Richard McBrien on Jan. 11, 2010 Essays in Theology This column has called attention for a number of years (the first time in 1969) to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This ecumenical program, observed annually between Jan. 18 and Jan. 25, was originally proposed in 1908 by […]
Edward Schillebeeckx
Grace-Optimism “Extra mundum nulla salus—There is no salvation outside the world.” That was the final message of Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P., to his theological colleagues at a symposium held in his honor in Leuven, Belgium, in December 2008. That conviction captures the love of the world and the “grace-optimism” that characterized the life’s work of this […]
Persecuted Christians
*Sightings* 1/11/10 Persecuted — Martin E. Marty Christians, who through the centuries have often been persecutors, in our time often are persecutees. Those of us who try to keep an eye on and have a heart for suffering Christians have to log horror stories weekly. In just a few January days we were made mindful […]
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