Rowland Croucher
Universal moratorium on the death penalty?
Life over death The coming UN vote for a universal moratorium on the death penalty could mark another turning point for civilisation Emma Bonino December 17, 2007 It is finally happening. After 13 years of negotiations, delays, and hesitation, the UN general assembly will vote this month on the proposal for a universal moratorium on […]
Athol Gill: book launch
Athol Gill: Book Launch. Jan 15 2008 Athol Gill: book launch Book Launch Harold Pidwell, A Gentle Bunyip. The Athol Gill Story. West Lakes, SA: Seaview Press, 2007. Monday, Dec 3, 2007, 5:30pm at Whitley College It is wonderful to have this occasion to publicly remember and remind ourselves of the person and the life […]
Athol Gill
Review: A Gentle Bunyip: the Athol Gill Story, by Harold Pidwell (Seaview Press, 2007). Athol Gill was arguably Australia’s highest-profile Baptist New Testament scholar. When he died in 1992 from a massive heart attack at the young age of 54, memorial services were held in his honour at the Community Church of St. Mark (Clifton […]
Christmas
I heard a story on the radio of a woman who was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable. And after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it […]
Humility
“A human being with grace is a human being who has been emptied, who stands impoverished before God, who has nothing of which to boast.” “Poverty of spirit is the meeting point of heaven and earth, the mysterious place where God and humanity encounter each other, the point where infinite mystery meets concrete existence.” /Poverty […]
A Lost Diary
By Rev. Geoff Leslie, Barham Baptist Renovators pulling up the old lino at the Bethlehem hotel rear kitchen found this fascinating diary from one of the earlier innkeepers. Let me share a few extracts. The diary starts with these rules of the trade. “Hospitality rules: 1. Always give the customer what they want. 2. Choose […]
Robert Funk’s 21 Theses
(Summarised by a liberal friend) From Robert W. Funk “Honest To Jesus: Jesus for a New Millenium” (Hodder & Stoughton: 1996) pp 300 – 314 A QUEST DESIGNED FOR A NEW AGE … 1. The aim of this quest is to set Jesus free. Its purpose is to liberate Jesus from the scriptural and creedal […]
Fussy Jesus Ad Outrages Church Groups
Wednesday Dec 19 06:00 AEDT By ninemsn staff Christian leaders have slammed an advertisement showing baby Jesus throwing gifts back at the three wise men, branding it tacky and offensive. The Betta Electrical commercial recreates the nativity scene, where Jesus lies in his manger as the three wise men offer their gifts. The television commercial […]
Australia’s Foreign Aid
* AUSTRALIA 14th OUT OF 23 IN HUMANITARIAN AID RANKING ———————————————– AUSTRALIA 14th OUT OF 23 IN HUMANITARIAN AID RANKING Three Nordic countries have the world’s best humanitarian aid practices, according to a new ranking which puts Australia 14th out of 23 in a league table of developed-world humanitarian giving. The Humanitarian Response Index – […]
Sermon on Christmas by R L Stevenson
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