Rowland Croucher
Can and Trade
To this… This is the best critique of Cap’nTrade I’ve seen – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM an American friend responded: Cap and Trade possibly the worst idea anyone ever thought up. It’s always bad when the central government intervenes in the economy, but it’s even worse when it does so to reward bad behavior; and that EXACTLY what […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER December 2009. * UNPRECEDENTED CHRISTMAS GATHERING HELD IN VIETNAM * BRITISH CHRISTIAN HOTELIERS WIN CASE OF INSULTING MUSLIM GUEST * URGENT PRAYER NEEDED IN IRAQ * ISLAMIC HAT ALLOWED FOR LAWYER IN COURTROOM * MYANMAR FACES FAMINE DUE TO RAT PLAGUE * NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT CALLS FOR ‘100 DAYS OF COMBAT’ […]
Religious reality on climate change
Why should religious people be involved in the climate change debate? And how should religious people, particularly Christians, view themselves in relation to the earth and God, the creator of the earth? Canadian Moderator adds name to letter in Copenhagen. December 21, 2009
Obama’s Nobel War speech
http://blog.sojo.net/2009/12/17/obama-in-oslo-what-if/ Cornel West has said we must “keep [Obama] accountable in a self-critical not self-righteous ways.” This link is an attempt of one of the Bonhoeffer 4 to do just that while in the midst of silence about Obama’s war budget exceeds that of Bush’s. http://blog.sojo.net/2009/12/17/obama-in-oslo-what-if/ It was easy for many to be against Bush’s […]
The Shibboleth of Homosexuality: a Question of Evangelical Identity
(Note from Rowland: some important considerations here from the field of social psychology etc. I’ve asked Paul if we can publish his follow-up article on this broad subject – which might contain some conclusions from the biblical material!). By Paul Tyson The Book of Judges informs us that Jephthah, the son of Gilead and a […]
Swords into Ploughshares
From a pastor-friend: I can remember being quite moved by Tom Wright’s description of the Tree of Life sculpture in the entrance foyer of the British Museum. It is made out of decommissioned guns and weapons from the Mozambique civil war. It turns weapons (swords) into ploughshares in a powerful and beautiful way. I’ve used […]
Blessing a Weapon of War?
Blessing a military officer’s sword One pastor asked: A chap in our congregation has a son who has just graduated from officer training with the [country deleted] army. As part of this, the son was awarded a ceremonial sword which, according to dad, is straight from England and “never been blessed.” Apparently such blessings amount […]
Swords into Ploughshares (more)
From a pastor-friend: Here’s the first chapter of a book called Testimony, by Daniel Berrigan, the man who began the Ploughshares movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_Movement) in the early 1980s. He writes not merely of a future hope of transformation, but of the Christian imperative for literal acts of disarmament now. http://www.maryknollsocietymall.org/chapters/1-57075-545-0.pdf May it inspire you all to […]
Liberal *and* evangelical: a neglected path
Liberal and evangelical: a neglected path One of the more ironic failures of the church today is that so many liberal and conservative Christians equally confuse authentic Christian witness with one or other polarising position in the wider so-called culture wars over moral and social issues. Meanwhile, a significant majority of Christians suffer between those […]
Liberals and Evangelicals
Lost? and Found! Down Under Brice Tennant Wednesday, 04 November 2009 14:45 American liberal-evangelical Christians are caught between two extremes. Conservative and liberal branches repeatedly attempt to define Christianity according to polarized stances on moral and social issues that leaves moderate liberal-evangelical Christians torn between two directions. Moderate liberal-evangelicals, who constitute the majority of Christians […]
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