Rowland Croucher
Andrew Marin on Homosexuality
Andrew Marin Responds Thursday April 2, 2009 Andrew Marin is a friend; Andrew has spent the last decade in pastoral work among gays and lesbians. I asked Andrew how he’d respond to the letter I posted yesterday and here is his response. Allowing the student to rejoin the worship team, sexually celibate outside a civil […]
Andrew Marin and Gays
Book Corner: Pursuing the Gay Community A call to bridge building. Brandon O’Brien Just last month, I met the gregarious and animated Andrew Marin, founder of The Marin Foundation and author of Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community. Marin has a fascinating story, which you can read more about in […]
Ancient Proofs for the Existence of God
The proof industry When modern-day debaters on belief use ancient proofs in their arguments, it’s often to make a point they weren’t meant to serve People have been thinking of proofs for the existence of God for millennia. Today’s ongoing arguments conjure notions that date back to ancient Greece, the medieval monasteries, and Abbasid-era Baghdad. […]
Weak Australian Christianity
Bishop blames ‘weak’ churches for losing their religious Updated Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:28pm AEST Census figures show a quarter of the population does not have a declared religion. Census figures show a quarter of the population does not have a declared religion. (http://www.sxc.hu: Lionel Titu) A former Australian Defence Force Anglican bishop says religious […]
Shadowlands, by William Nicholson
Chaplain portrays suffering from the Shadowlands The Rev. Dr Peter Oliver, chaplain at John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton, [Newcastle NSW] is having a tragic love affair with an American poet. Or rather, as C. S. Lewis in the Newcastle Theatre Company’s production of Shadowlands he is. Shadowlands, by William Nicholson, is the poignant story of […]
Calvinism
Friday 14 August 2009 We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world. Dolan Cummings This article is republished from the July 2009 issue of the spiked review of books. This year is the five-hundredth anniversary of John Calvin ¯ ¿ ½s […]
Ecclesiastes
A beautiful video… but are you entirely comfortable looking at it? http://www.biblesociety.ca/free_scriptures/escriptures/ecclesiastes3/ecclesiastes3.html Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Worship
Christian Worship The early Christian Church came into being as a liturgical church because Jews worshipped liturgically. The New Testament records numerous instances of liturgical worship, which range from pure Jewish practices (such as Peter and John going to the Temple because it was the hour of prayer) to Christian liturgical worship (which confirms that […]
Love and God
‘When you love do not say “God is in my heart” but rather “I am in the heart of God”.’ Know who said that? Are you OK with that sentiment? What does it mean? Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
The New Stolen Generation
Here is an excerpt from “The Australian”: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ ~ The new stolen generation ~ Caroline Overington | August 22, 2009 ~ WELFARE workers have swooped on the opal mining town of Lightning ~ Ridge in northwest NSW, removing more than 40 Aboriginal children ~ from decrepit homes in shanty towns. ~ . . . . […]
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