Rowland Croucher
Messiah and Misery
To be Christian is to cease saying, “Where the Messiah is there is no misery” and to begin to say “Where there is misery there is the Messiah.” The former statement makes no demands; the latter is an assignment. –Fred Craddock
The Apostles’ Creed
A friend writes: The Apostles’ Creed … I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary, ********************************************** suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into […]
U. S. Christianity on the decline
A decade ago, a majority of U.S.16-29 year olds were favorably disposed towards Christianity: today it’s only 16% (3% towards evangelical Christians). Why? Common perceptions – ‘anti-homosexual’ (91%), judgmental (87%), hypocritical (85%), old-fashioned (78%), too ‘political’ (75%), boring (68%), insensitive to others (70%). [Kinnamon & Lyons 2007]. Why? why? why? why? why?
Prayer Network Newsletter September 2009
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * THE COUNTER REVOLUTION TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS BEGUN IN BRITAIN * NEW ISLAMIC TV STATION LAUNCHED * BRAZIL TOLD TO KEEP GOD OUT OF FOOTBALL * WOMEN MUST BE TOLD UNBORN CHILD IS A HUMAN BEING U.S. JUDGE SAYS * INDIA: PRAYER TEAM BEATEN MERCILESSLY – THEN ARRESTED * CHRISTIANS […]
Fathers Need Fathers’ Day
“We live in a society that talks about peace and contentment, and yet we seem to grow further and further from both. We get richer, but relationally poorer. Our weddings get bigger and our marriages get shorter. Our houses get bigger and our families get smaller. We communicate across the world without difficulty but can’t […]
Men and Boys
Every man’s question is “am I good enough?”, “am I a man?”. During the civil rights movement in the 1950s and’60s in the US, some of the banners that people would carry during their marches proclaimed ‘I am a man!’ Why? What does publicly affirming your manliness have to do with civil rights? Well, quite […]
Relocation of Aborigines for ‘Development’
At Weipa there was a fairly large Aboriginal community living peacefully under the auspices, and with the assistance of, the Uniting Church. Until someone discovered large deposits of bauxite in the area. Then, under the then Queensland Government, led by a devout Christian, the Aborigines were unceremoniously shifted out of the community and moved elsewhere. […]
Review: ‘Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction’
Review: ‘Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction’ (Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger, 2009). Here’s a good textbook for a basic course in ‘Ecclesiology 101’ (or what used to be called ‘Church, Ministry and Sacraments’ back in my seminary days). Though written ‘densely’ in text-book fashion (a few good stories, lots of Bible texts, […]
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one another, a leader and an idea. Implied by this definition is […]
Facebook – The Latest
FACEBOOK GOES ON SALE They say you can’t buy your friends, though a new service from an Internet-based social media marketing company is about to prove that old adage incorrect. uSocial.net — the company who recently began selling followers on Twitter — has just launched a new suite of services for Facebook, enabling people to […]
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