Rowland Croucher
Jesus: Grounds for the Christian Estimate (C F D Moule)
A previously unpublished address by Professor C F D Moule – http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/jesus_moule.pdf
Pentecostal and Evangelical gay and lesbian Christians (ABC radio discussion)
Pentecostal and Evangelical gay and lesbian Christians 15/03/2009 Last week Sydney played host once again to the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and as per usual it stirred some conversation in the media. What has become noticeable over the years of the event is the way in which that conversation has turned from suspicion […]
Self-esteem
Sam Keen (To a Dancing God) writes about his search for self-esteem. He got a PhD but being called ‘Doctor’ or ‘Professor’ didn’t give it to him. He asked God ‘What can I do that will give dignity/meaning to my life?’ Answer: nothing; these are given and received out of God’s grace. There in the […]
The Evangelical Right
Is The Evangelical Right Really Turning on Itself? Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet at 1:26 PM on April 6, 2009. I’m a bit late looking at this piece from Friday’s Washington Post by conservative columnist Kathleen Parker (Parker, if you’ll recall, is a smarter-than-average right-winger who was absolutely excoriated by her National Review readers for […]
One-word Riddle
What if this was the only question on the exam to pass high school English and earn your diploma. Would you graduate? Okay you brainiacs, here is a brain teaser for you. What nine letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? […]
What an I doing with my life?
A movie to ‘give us pause’ – The Dash Movie http://www.thedashmovie.com/land.html
Non-violence and Imagination
When Shane Claiborne spent time in Iraq as a human shield early on in the second war there he visited one of the hospitals. One of the doctors choked back tears as he said to Shane, “This violence is for people who have lost their imagination.” Imagination is key here. The church needs imagination. We […]
Power and the Church ( M L King)
M L King in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “There was a time when the church was very powerful–in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular […]
The Morality of War
An Old Soldier’s Advice On the eve of their deployment to Iraq, three brothers received a letter from their great-uncle. His honest counsel is helpful for anyone fighting a war—or living a life. Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Feb. 1, 2007 Dear Jon, Ben and Rick*, The other day I was thinking of you three and […]
Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
Genesis Revisited A Scientific Creation Story By Michael Shermer In the beginning—specifically on October 23, 4004 B.C., at noon—out of quantum foam fluctuation God created the Big Bang, followed by cosmological inflation and an expanding universe. And darkness was upon the face of the deep, so He commanded hydrogen atoms (which He created from Quarks) […]
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