Rowland Croucher
Religion held accountable for environmental degradation
***** Adelaide academic Professor Norman Habel holds religion accountable for its contribution to environmental degradation in his latest book An Inconvenient Text: Is a Green Reading of the Bible Possible? A Religious Studies Professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, Habel describes the Bible as “an inconvenient text” and readily admits that key passages have provided […]
How to Cope with Tragedy
St Teresa taught herself to say at difficult times: ‘This too will pass.’ Read this morning of an American poet (anyone know who?), confined to his bed for 20+ years, who wanted to write a poem to the clouds. ‘He so faithfully portrayed clouds as he saw them in a mirror that his Sky Poems […]
Speaking Truth to Power
Proper 10- B – July 12, 2009 Mark 6: 14-29 (Amos 7: 7-15; Ephesians 1: 3-14) By Harry T. Cook 7/06/09 RUBRIC “Speaking truth to power,” the well-worn nature of the saying notwithstanding, gets no easier as time goes on. He or she who thus speaks often enough pays a huge price for doing so. […]
Islamization: A Dutch Perspective
A Dutch Perspective Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament. America as the last man standing ‘In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe?’ Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York, introducing an Alliance of Patriots and […]
Homosexuality & Christianity
Note from Rowland: this – in my view – is one of the two best articles on this topic on our website – of hundreds. The other? http://jmm.org.au/articles/20763.htm ***** (originally published in 1981) Homosexuality and the Bible by Rev. Michael S. Piazza The Bible In our Judeo-Christian society, the documents collectively known as the Bible […]
The Forgotten Ways Workbook
The Forgotten Ways Workbook: A practical guide for developing missional churches by Alan Hirsch with Darryn Altclass (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2009) Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw Theory and ideals about revitalising churches is fine, but guidance about how to do it is harder to come by. Here is an accessible and practical workbook for groups […]
A Wise note from someone about worship
I’ve quite recently discovered that for some (many?) people worship means musical entertainment. To me liturgy means “the work of the people”, something offered to God by a community, by which the people become something together that they were not individually — the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. So liturgy is […]
Connecting
I was moved the other night to go back and have a look at Larry Crabb’s excellent book Connecting. This is the book that had the potential to cost Crabb his career as a counselor. In it, he talks about the power of emotional healing that takes place when people relate to each other as […]
Faith in the everyday
I was talking to a friend the other night about faith. We touched on different aspects related to faith, including doubt, atheism, and agnosticism. On my way home I got to thinking about it a bit more and I realised again that every one of us lives by faith every day of our lives. Faith […]
We need to hear a better story
In my sermon, ‘Free to Love!’, [http://jmm.org.au/articles/22513.htm] I talked about the issue of repentance and how that word has such negative connotations. If you’re like me, you probably immediately think of someone yelling from a pulpit with his finger pointed straight at you shouting “Repent!” Unfortunately the attitude that that image represents is quite accurate […]
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