Rowland Croucher
Eugene Peterson: The Jesus Way: A Conversation in Following Jesus (2007)
Presbyterian scholar-pastor Eugene Peterson – one of the half-dozen most-read Evangelical writers in the English-speaking world today – has probably never had an ‘unpublished thought’. He brings to his craft an unusual combination of gifts and experience: some unique (for American conservatives) insights into pastor-as-spiritual director, rather than pastor as CEO; a thorough knowledge of […]
A Franciscan Benediction
May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that we may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless us with tears to shed for those […]
Getting old
When you get old sometimes your brain just does not repond as it once did. I didn’t hear this on a bus (mainly because despite the fact that I can travel for free, I can’t actually manage to climb onto a bus!). I heard it in a shop – just a snatch of conversation “… […]
House Churches: 15 Theses. Wolfgang Simson
God is changing the Church, and that, in turn, will change the world. Millions of Christians around the world are aware of an imminent reformation of global proportions. They say, in effect: “Church as we know it is preventing Church as God wants it.” A growing number of them are surprisingly hearing God say the […]
Economic Meltdown
Blame perversity for the meltdown * Leon Gettler * October 30, 2008 THE market meltdown has been blamed on greed, fraud and deceit; but the question is, why have they become so entrenched? What’s been at play is the little-explored area of organisational perversity, collusion and turning a blind eye. In her book, The Perverse […]
‘Gog’ on the Move
Sightings 10/30/08 — John Howell Those who followed early coverage of the 2008 Olympics will remember President Bush’s interview with NBC’s Bob Costas during which the two men discussed Russia’s bombing of Georgia. Asked what he had said to Vladimir Putin during the opening ceremonies about the still-simmering conflict, Bush – in a sublime display […]
Deathbed Question
Old Morris was near to death. He lay or his bed with the family gathered around. “Samuel, my son are you there?” he croaked. “Yes, father, I am here.” “Ruth, my daughter, are you there?” “Yes, Daddy, I am here.” “David, my second son, are you there?” “Yes, Dad, I am here.” “Rebecca, my youngest […]
Ecology vs Economy
Discussion about how we mustn’t proceed too fast with tackling climate change, lest we damage the economy, reminds me of the old joke about a Scotsman held up at gunpoint by a robber (highwayman) – Robber: “Your money, or your life!” Scot: “Take my life. I’m saving my money for my old age.”
If You Think My Preaching’s Bad, Try My Jokes
‘If You Think My Preaching’s Bad, Try My Jokes’, David Pytches, Monarch Books, 2008. I remember visiting both Churches-of-England in Chorleywood, an outer London suburb. One was pastored by a Bishop (Peru, Chile, Bolivia) whose theology was ‘Charismatic’. The other church was Evangelical. This collection of quips, jokes, and funny stories has been collected by […]
Homosexuality & The Father-Wound
“Homosexuality & The Father-Wound” Gordon Dalbey _http://www.abbafather.com_ (http://www.abbafather.com/) Married and a grandfather at 50, George (not his real name) had engaged in many homosexual relationships until three years earlier, when he became a Christian and renounced them all. Lately, however, same-sex desires had resurfaced, and he came to me for help. Uncertain, I offered to […]
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