Rowland Croucher
On Earth as in Heaven
Acts 16.16–34; John 17.20–end a sermon at the Eucharist on the Sunday after Ascension Day York Minster, 20 May 2007 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright I love the weekly Collects in the Book of Common Prayer (and, in principle, their updated versions). Again and again they outshine, in their elegant but […]
Kids and Grief
From a friend: There’s an excellent resource which is used by the Chaplains at the Childrens Hospital called “Helping Children Grieve”. The author is Theresa M Huntley, The structure of the book is: Part One: Children and Death 1. How Children Understand Death 2. Teaching Children about Death Part Two: Grieving with Children 3. How […]
Elephant Story
In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from university. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot […]
Does Not Compute
July 29, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Two and two have always made four insofar as I know. Sometimes politicians want you to believe that two and two make five. But if I read the news correctly, two and two now make less than one. I was never much at higher mathematics, but I’ve got […]
The Lord’s Prayer
Another sermon from my favorite online liberal preacher, with whom I am free to agree or disagree at some points (I disagree with his suppositions here about God). Rowland. July 29, 2007 Ah, Prayer By Harry T. Cook Luke 11: 1-13 Why do some people some of the time kneel when they pray? Ask that […]
Ten Rational Ideas
Rational Idea 1 I want to be loved or liked and approved of by some of the people in my life. I will feel disappointed or lonely when that doesn’t happen, but I can cope with those feelings, and I can take constructive steps to make and keep better relationships. Rational Idea 2 I want […]
Religion of the Apes
Sightings 7/26/07 — Christian Sheppard Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo recently hosted a conference on chimpanzee cognition and culture, “The Mind of the Chimpanzee.” The most recent research confirms that chimpanzees possess a sense of self, a theory of mind, strong memory, empathy, politics, and culture. One further question to ask is whether our fellow apes […]
What’s Happening in America
July 22, 2007 A Midsummer Complaint By Harry T. Cook I do not like what is happening to my country. I do not think its future will belong to ordinary Americans (like me), much less to its minorities and its disadvantaged. Since the election of Ronald Reagan almost 27 years ago, except for the conflicted […]
More than one way
July 22, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 10: 38-42 More mistaken and unhelpful sermons have been committed using this passage – the depiction of Jesus stopping by the Bethany home of Martha and Mary – than we might attempt to count. Most that it has been my misfortune to have heard used this text […]
Census: Young turn from religion
Young turn from religion but drop in faith is matter of interpretation Barney Zwartz, religion editor The Age IF THE figures are right, young people are deserting religion in droves. Only 56 per cent of 15 to 34-year-olds called themselves Christian in the census, compared with 64 per cent of all Australians and 79 per […]
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