Rowland Croucher
Monotheism
Monotheism, someone has said, offers two simple axioms: 1) There is a God. 2) It’s not you.
The Shady Ladies
This Week’s Essay Tad Evans, a retired Episcopal priest and the grandson of the well known and well remembered Walter Russell Bowie, sent the following verse that he attributes without certainty to English Bible scholar Michael Donald Goulder. One of my columns on “The Shady Ladies” of Matthew’s genealogy inspired Tad to pass this along. […]
The Radicalism of Caritas in Veritate?
Sightings 7/16/09 — Rick Elgendy The Vatican recently released the long-awaited papal encyclical Caritas in Veritate, which ranges from theological to political and economic themes. Now that the dust has settled, the encyclical and reactions to it can be seen to be rather remarkable. Papal comment on social ethics is not itself unusual; Caritas in […]
English Respectability
Poms (Australian slang for the English) here might like this (from a BBC cricket commentator): “A charming sight on the England balcony. Alastair Cook, deep in conversation with Paul Collingwood, sticks a long finger up his nose, has a little rummage and pulls out a prime specimen. He stares at it for a while, rolls […]
Who made bullocks?
A priest in southern New South Wales was visiting parishioners. He stopped to talk to a small boy grazing bullocks beside a road. “Tell me,” he said, “Who made these bullocks?” “Dad,” said the small drover. The priest smiled at him. “Oh no,” he said, kindly. “I am sure you know God made them.” The […]
Opposites Attract?
What’s love got to do with it? Opposites attract – or so the saying goes – but a new study suggests this may not be the key to a long-lasting marriage. Academics from the Australian National University tracked the relationships and characteristics of nearly 2,500 couples between 2001 and 2007. They found the factors that […]
Michael Mayne: This Sunrise of Wonder: Letters for the Journey (1995, 2008)
First a confession. I’d never heard of Michael Mayne until I read this wonderful book. When I Googled his name I discovered a couple of obituaries and learned enough about this erudite scholar-priest to rebuke my ignorance. [1] The Very Rev. Michael Mayne was an English Anglican priest (he died in 2006) who served with […]
Homosexuality and Slavery in the Bible
Sightings 7/13/09 — Martin E. Marty Annually I write the report on “Protestantism” for World Book and other yearbooks. For a dozen or score of years now, the lead story always has to be about churches tearing themselves apart in lose-lose battles over the blessing of gay marriages and ordination of homosexuals, et cetera. One […]
The Trouble with kids today
The trouble with kids today: a baptismal sermon A sermon by Kim Fabricius Text: Luke 18:15-30 “The trouble with kids today…” “When I was their age…” “Remember the days when…” Get the picture? Old people talking about young people. And ever has it been so between one generation and the next. Old folk look back […]
Work Experience (more…)
I tried to be a baker because I kneaded the dough, but then I became a stand up comic. I was a loaf a minute! I wasn’t interested in tailoring; it just seamed immaterial My mate and I heard that the forestry ‘branch’ of the DSE was looking for tree fellers; but when we applied […]
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