Rowland Croucher
As the Ruin Falls (C S Lewis)
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through: I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I […]
Judith Tebbutt: An Sad/Amazing Story
Judith Tebbutt: my six months as a hostage of Somali kidnappers Judith Tebbutt and her husband David were looking forward to a quiet break in Kenya when kidnappers dragged her away. In an exclusive interview, she recalls her six-month nightmare Wednesday 10 July 2013 Judith Tebbutt: ‘I keep expecting to feel like I used to […]
Jesus and Women
A study of the life-giving encounters in the Gospel narratives. by Melanie Morrison The biblical defense of hierarchy in male-female relationships is built on a select number of Pauline passages, while the gospels and the book of Acts are often ignored. The hermeneutical principle that undergirds this position is that the gospels are to be […]
What do Abbott and the Taliban have in common?
September 5, 2013 Bob Brown The Coalition has pledged to remove natural wonders from the World Heritage List. In 2001 the world reacted with horror as it saw graphic film of the Taliban dynamiting the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two giant 6th-century statues of Buddha in central Afghanistan. Later the area’s remaining archaeological treasures were included […]
Australia’s Catholic Church: two archbishops should resign
Healing starts with fresh blood at the top December 26, 2013 Barney Zwartz Religion editor, The Age. View more articles from Barney Zwartz The Catholic Church must make a clean sweep and break with a sullied past by excising its tainted leaders. Illustration: Matt Golding Last December, when I was about to leave The Age, I prepared […]
Snowden revelations only the beginning
Date December 30, 2013 Ryan Gallagher The governments of the US, Australia, Britain and beyond should be on notice: He’s not done yet. Snowden’s actions have triggered what appears to be a vital culture shift on the issue of secrecy. Photo: AP Almost a year ago to the day, I predicted that 2013 would see important […]
Teenage boys and girls: latest research
Major piece in Time December 2 2013, pp. 28-33: ‘What Boys Want’ by Rosalind Wiseman: Excerpts: The [U.S.] data [suggests] little has changed in the past few decades on key issues like when most teens lost their virginity. According to the Guttmacher Institute… only 16% of teens have had sex by age 15, and there […]
Church Services: the Latest
NEW CHURCH SERVICES PASTOR: “Praise the Lord!” CONGREGATION: “Hallelujah!” PASTOR: “Will everyone please turn on their tablet, PC, iPad, smart phone, and Kindle Bibles to 1 Cor. 13:13. And please switch on your Bluetooth to download the sermon.” P-a-u-s-e…… “Now, Let us pray committing this week into God’s hands. Open your Apps, BBM, Twitter and Facebook, and […]
Heaven
Zion, City of Our God Sermon by Fleming Rutledge July 8, 2012 Psalm 48, Revelation 7, 19-21 There are a lot of apocryphal stories about the great theologian Karl Barth, but this one sounds just like him. A well-meaning lady asked him, ¢â‚¬Å“Dr. Barth, will we see our loved ones in […]
HELL – a sermon for Advent
Grace Church in New York Posted: Nov 17, 2013 By Fleming Rutledge At Grace Church in 1993 we had a series of Wednesday evening sermons on the Four Last Things of Advent: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell ¢â‚¬”in their traditional order. The sermon is unchanged from Advent 1993 and the names of parishioners have not been […]
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