Rowland Croucher
Proselytization Methods
A Catholic priest, a Baptist preacher, and a rabbi all served as chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette . They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn’t really all that hard. A […]
I Was In Prison, But…
Sightings 6/8/09 — Martin E. Marty Sightings files bulge with clippings and printouts having to do with religion and prisons. Every year I “do” one of the sixty synod assemblies of our cosa nostra, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This year it was the Southwest California synod. Months ago they told me I was […]
Azerbaijan; Russia; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 3 June 2009 AZERBAIJAN: REPRESSIVE NEW RELIGION LAW AND NEW PUNISHMENTS ENTER INTO FORCE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1305 Azerbaijan’s repressive new Religion Law, and amendments […]
Islam in Australia
Ms Sally Neighbour Re: No lessons here, The Australian, 3/6/09 The issues raised by the rejection of an Islamic school at Camden require much deeper consideration. The value, and practical consequences, of the education that would be provided through such a school needs to be better understood both by the general community and by Muslims. […]
Equal Opportunity Laws
Sunday, May 24, 2009 Exemptions to Equal Opportunity Laws A committee of the Victorian parliament is currently conducting a review of ‘exceptions and exemptions’ to Victorian Equal Opportunity laws. The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee has produced an Options Paper, outlining ways in which the laws could be revised. The issues relating to religious […]
Changes to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1995
Options for changing exceptions and exemptions Briefing Notes for Victorian Church Leaders by Mark Durie The Victorian Parliament, through its ‘Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee’ (SARC), has prepared a set of options for modifying Victoria’s Equal Opportunity law. Some of these options, if implemented, could have highly significant implications for how churches and other […]
Darwin’s last words
No, not Darwin’s legendary death-bed conversion to Christianity and confession the evolution is wrong: this legend is no longer prominent in even creationist circles. The last sentence in the final edition of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” reads: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed […]
Ministry Supervision
SAMPLE SUPERVISION PROGRAMME MARTIN LUTHER SupervisorBenedict Frequency: Monthly Cost: ?? per session. Up to 2 hours. Process: See expectations set out below and in the pages that follow. Venue: Supervisees will prepare to present, within a confidential environment, specific issues from their life and ministry. As a basis for the session, they will present a […]
Ministry Reviews
“How Are You Going? Who Knows?” (by Alan Niven) INTRODUCTION We will explore the theological and pastoral background of ministry appraisals or reviews. In the complex mix of faith, personality, ministry and culture it is often extremely difficult to develop a “sober estimate” of our ability or to come up with a reasonable response to […]
Ethics for Pastoral Leaders
REDUCING VULNERABILITY TO ETHICS CODE VIOLATIONS: AN ‘AT-RISK’ TEST FOR PASTORAL LEADERS/CARERS A boundary violation is an action by one person that violates, (crosses over without permission), the limits and the rightful territory of another person. A boundary violation violates a person not a rule. The sexualising of pastoral or counselling relationships and the creation […]
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