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Exiles: Living Missionally In A Post-christian Culture
Michael Frost Peabody: Hendrickson, 2006 Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, originally appeared in Zadok Perspectives, No. 96 (Spring). Exiles is Michael Frost’s latest and most substantial book, in which he addresses the urgency of the missional challenge in the post-Christendom Western world. Christendom, he explains, is no longer a reality in Western culture but continues to […]
Papua (Indonesia): Genocide by Demographics
Papua (Indonesia): Genocide by Demographics. If present demographic trends continue, West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) will be majority Indonesian (mostly Javanese) Muslim by 2011, and the indigenous Melanesian predominantly Protestant Christian Papuans will be a dwindling 15 percent minority by 2030. This was recently forecast in a conference at the University of Sydney (NSW, Australia) […]
Desmond Tutu’s inspirational wisdom
Desmond Tutu from a homily on the Parable of the Good Samaritan: “Let us go forth, then, as the followers of this Jesus, ready to celebrate life that can’t be lived by rote. Let’s luxuriate in its complexities, in its bewildering ambiguities, excited by the thrill of working out things for ourselves; let us celebrate […]
Pastoral Vocation – and another vocation (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry In a lecture at Duke University (to an audience of mostly clergy!), said, “It seemed to me that one of the most important things in ministerial training would be to teach them to do something besides be a preacher. Because it’s a bad thing to be professionally trapped and I can’t think of […]
Making a Scene
Dec. 23, 2007 By Harry T. Cook On the occasion of my first Christmas at St. Andrew’s of Clawson I made a scene about a scene. That very first Sunday in December 1987 as I arrived to take my first services and to preach my first sermons, I beheld across the street from the church […]
Becoming: A Sermon for Christmas
Dec. 24, 2007 By Harry T. Cook The common theological tenet associated with Christmas is the proposition that the (or a) deity became human, or, as the Gospel According to John puts it, that the eternal creative wisdom of God became flesh and dwelt among humankind. For some Christians, that is an out-and-out literal truth. […]
Christmas and War
From a pastor-friend: We recently watched the movie “Joyeux Noel” which tells the now-fabled tale of how peace broke out in the trenches between French, German and British troops in Flanders in 1914. The singing of a Christmas carol became the catalyst for peace breaking out between the enemy troops, and a communion service being […]
Stop ‘insatiable consumption’
Societies must move away from “promoting endless growth and production of goods” as well as a “seemingly insatiable” consumption, says a statement presented by the World Council of Churches to the plenary of high-level government representatives at the UN climate summit in Bali, Indonesia. While “the poorer carry the burden of the irresponsible waste of […]
Gore backs ‘moral’ stand of church leader on climate
Gore backs ‘moral’ stand of top church leader on climate Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore, in a speech to UN climate change talks in Bali that received strong applause from delegates, has echoed a call by the Archbishop of Canterbury to confront the issue as a moral one. “It is a moral imperative, you […]
Australia’s church head blasts Israel
Published: 12/12/2007 The leader of the Anglican Church in Australia has blasted Israel’s separation barrier. Anglican Primate Phillip Aspinall, who just completed a nine-day mission to Israel with Australian church leaders, told ABC Radio from Jerusalem on Wednesday that the barrier, built to defend Israelis from suicide bombers, is “inhumane.” “Our concern is that in […]
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