Rowland Croucher
‘Boy Parachutist 1943-45’ – Harry Henkel’s story
(Received from Mark Tronson, 21st July 2008): ‘Boy Parachutist 1943-45’ are the recollections, as if it were yesterday, of post-war migrant Harry Henkel now 82. It tells of his adventures and exploits as a 16 year old Wehrmacht paratrooper during World War II, and afterwards as an English translator working for the American liberators. Harry […]
What Does the Headscarf Mean Anyway?
— Jeremy Walton Early this February (2008), the Turkish Parliament voted to approve emendations to the Turkish Constitution aimed at legalizing the wearing of the headscarf by devout Muslim women in public space, and, in particular, on university campuses. This vote comes as no surprise to any casual follower of the vicissitudes of Turkish politics; […]
Baptismal Sermon
What Do We Think We’re Doing? A Sermon on the Occasion of Baptism By Harry T. Cook If I thought for one minute that all we were actually doing today was providing a photo-op for additions to family albums, I would quit my job and go find honest work. I mean it. And if that […]
The Next Anglicanism?
July 18, 2008 by J. Peter Pham Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. By Miranda K. Hassett. Princeton University Press, 2007. The bishops and other leaders gathering this month in Canterbury for the fourteenth Lambeth Conference will be considering the future of the Anglican Communion. The last […]
Quotes to make one think!
Gandhi: ” if it wasnt for christians, i would be one. Spike Milligan: on his tombstone ” i told you i was sick” . Manning Clark: ” when i get to heaven my first question will be…’what the hell was that all about?”
Waterboarding (Christopher Hitchens)
Believe Me, It’s Torture What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it. by Christopher Hitchens August 2008 Here is the most chilling way […]
Fundamentalism in Europe
Sightings *7/21/08 — Martin E. Marty Off to Prague this week for the Tenth International (Dietrich) Bonhoeffer Congress, to present a synoptic view of fundamentalism(s). The conferees are probing ways in which the life and record of the theologian put to death by the Nazis in the last month of the European War (1945) can […]
Psychology
Your brain can get a cholesterol-overload if you have too much Freud food. From one who is advancing in years – aware that psychology is still little more than pulling habits out of rats – but still Jung at heart…
The Scriptures (2 Timothy 3:14-17): another view
Dr. Smith: I came across your article after doing a google search on 2 Tim 3.14-17. (See http://jmm.org.au/articles/15292.htm ) I didn’t find a date on your article, but it is refreshing to learn someone is still questioning the interpretation of texts that most think are long settled. I hope you don’t mind me sharing my […]
Left Behind or Left in Cyberspace?
*Sightings* 7/17/08 — Noreen Herzfeld As a teenager, when a friend first told me about the rapture, in which Christians will be miraculously transported to heaven while sinners remain on earth to suffer a variety of tribulations, I was quite sure that, sinner that I was, I was destined to be the one member of […]
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