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Christmas Nostalgia
Muzak Reverie Harry T. Cook 12/19/08 The older I get, the more nostalgic I become as I remember “how it was then” — “then” being when I myself was a child or when my now-adult offspring were children or even when my grandchildren were infants. My first cognitive awareness of life around me came toward […]
A Journey that has no end
* Barney Zwartz * December 19, 2008 FRIEDRICH Nietzsche, who wasn’t one of God’s biggest supporters, asked, “Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?” What God thought of the 19th-century German philosopher is not recorded, though the fact that Nietzsche spent his last decade in an insane asylum, possibly […]
101 ‘Best Books Ever Published’
I note that the Bible did not make the Top Ten and was beaten by Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code. The Bible only just beat The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 101 Best Books Ever Published Australian bookseller Dymocks has come up with a list of the 101 best books ever published, […]
Death
“There’s nothing certain, except death and taxes.” – so the saying goes, and probably if you work in the funeral business, or the tax office, you’d never be unemployed. I attended a funeral recently, and the large crowd there spilled over into the foyer, from the parlour’s chapel. No seating was provided to such overflow, […]
Journey of the Magi
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on […]
Advent: Hope and dreaming
[An Advent missive from the Australian Churches’ of Christ’s #1 much-loved critic!]. Hi Advent is always a time of hope and dreaming. Since about 2000 I’ve been circulating comment/critique/collations/ and cryptanalysis, on our conferences, congregations and the wider koinonia. I doodled around around, first, under the title of the “Alternative Australian Christian”, some didn’t like […]
Christmas Message 2008 from the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem
Dear Brothers and Sisters Greetings! As we prepare to celebrate Christmas there seems to be even more darkness, conflict and despair in the world around us. That means for us, as Christians, we must think even more carefully and deeply about Jesus — the baby born in Bethlehem’s stable. Many people are afraid of the […]
Francis A Schaeffer by his son
Screwed-up saints Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s Christian philosophy guru Francis Schaeffer, has written a warts and all account of his life growing up in a Christian community. The book, Crazy for God, has drawn a scathing attack from at least one Schaeffer disciple. Its subtitle, “How I Grew Up as One of the […]
Church and state could be split, says Williams
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has surprisingly reignited the row over the separation of church and the British state by saying it is “not the end of the world” if the established church were to disappear. Rowan Williams, the most senior figure in the Church of England, argues there is a “certain integrity” to a church […]
Christmas Urban Legends
Hi friends Every year seems to produce a crop of urban legends about Christmas, but this year’s ones are the weirdest of the lot: http://methodius.blogspot.com/2008/12/urban-legends-about-christmas.html
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