Rowland Croucher
Reports on Clergy Sexual Abuse
The Ferns Report and the Anglican research By Clare Pascoe (http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia) July 2009 The results of two major moves with regard to clergy abuse have been made public in recent weeks. Firstly, the Irish report into abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland, and secondly the Anglican (Australia) report on […]
Acid attacks scar eleven Christians
Acid attacks scar eleven Christians as 600 Muslims firebomb their village, vandalising at least 117 homes as police again fail to intervene: One household had their door smashed in and their walls painted with Islamic proclamations. On Tuesday 30 June, around 600 Muslims used petrol bombs to attack at least 117 Christian homes in Bahmani […]
Paul and the church
Paul and the Church, July 3, 2009 http://jmm.org.au/articles/22673.htm Dr Keith Dyer (Whitley College, Melbourne, Australia) In Romans 16:23, Paul sends greetings to the ¢â‚¬Ëœsaints ¢â‚¬â„¢ in Rome on behalf of Gaius of Corinth, in whose house ¢â‚¬Ëœthe whole church ¢â‚¬â„¢ gathers. Given what we read of the diversity of the various factions at Corinth, this must have […]
Meaning and wellbeing in the rat race
As I waited at the bus stop one morning last week, watching both school kids and adults waiting to go to their places of education or work to spend the day, I was once again struck by the thought of meaning in life. The kids were waiting there to go to school to work out […]
Charles Darwin’s last paragraph
I’ve received several emails asking me for more of the context of the last sentence in “The Origin of Species”. Here is the complete last paragraph in the book (6th edition). Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species Sixth edition, 1872. CHAP. XV.Conclusion.page 429 [QUOTE] It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with […]
Bible Quiz
(We used to enjoy these as kids, 60+ years ago. They’re a bit sad, eh?) Q. What kind of man was Boaz before he married? A. Ruthless Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible? A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation. Q. Who was the greatest female […]
Michael Jackson
Sightings 7/2/09 The Way You Make Me Feel — Kathryn Lofton You’re tired of it already: the inundating coverage, the progressively whitening chronology, the recollection of malfeasance. Make it stop, you think. Let us move on to better problems, to anything but this. I’m with you. Make it stop. But first, before the casket closes, […]
Sharing our paradoxes: steps for a dialogue between Christians and Muslims
Herman Roborgh June 25, 2009 Introduction The dictionary explains the word paradox as follows: ‘A statement or proposition seemingly self-contradictory or absurd, and yet explicable as expressing a truth’.1 As with all religions, Christianity and Islam contain statements and customs that are contrasting or even apparently contradictory. For example, we hear about the transcendence and […]
Another World
The crucified and resurrected Christ gives us “eyes to see” and “ears to hear” in a new way. Most of my life I’ve seen Christianity and the Church as kind of a temporary part of the world, a critic and a minority, waiting to be plucked out of this place. But over the last few […]
From an ex-pastor
I’m no longer a pastor but I haven’t been away from it for so long that I’ve forgotten… The discouragement, The battles that I sometimes won and sometimes lost, The hypocrisy I often felt in thinking that my being a pastor was insane, The times when I didn’t know what I was doing and pretended […]
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