Rowland Croucher
Methodists
Opening Reflection 2 Cor. 5:17-18 I expect that many of you think that Annual Conference, like church in general, is where we come to do OLD. We build most of our churches to look like they are at least 200 years older than they are. Church loves words that, 1000 years ago, everybody knew – […]
Affluence
“A Humbling Experience” Americans come at life expecting everything to work. It always has. I was born with seven silver spoons in my mouth. I had a strong family and was loved from the beginning. My parents paved a path for me. Do you realize what a head start that is? It’s wonderful. But there’s […]
Belarus: Pentecostals Raided
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 28 May 2007 BELARUS: PENTECOSTALS RAIDED AT PENTECOST http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=964 Ten state officials raided the Pentecost service of John the Baptist Pentecostal Church […]
It Stinketh
June 3, 2007 By Harry T. Cook It was left to the senior senator from Illinois to administer the last rites to American democracy on May 24 as Congress was about to cave on the military appropriations bill, handing George W. Bush yet another blank check to wage his unwinnable war in Iraq. Speaking democracy’s […]
Trinity Sunday (a liberal view)
June 3, 2007 A Trinity You Can Deal With By Harry T. Cook For reasons that escape me, the Episcopal Church still has Trinity Sunday in its liturgical calendar, with specially appointed readings and with the expectation that the clergy will regale their congregations with liberal doses of trinitarian theology, despite the impossibility of the […]
Thomas More’s wisdom
Westminster Abbey – Sermon 2004 Sermon for Legal Service, 1 October 2004, Westminster Abbey by the Reverend Dr. Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian In his biography of Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd tells how the Lord Chancellor of England was once asked to right a particular wrong. A beggar-woman lost her dog, which was then adopted by […]
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Men and women
1. A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t want. 2. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. 3. A successful man is one […]
An Image of God
“An Image of God” When I was working with the peace movement in Germany, a Lutheran friend took me to a thirteenth-century Cistercian monastery. As we came into this old church, there on the wall was a picture that really expressed some truth about God and the Church. First, it’s a picture of the Father […]
Richard Rohr: Recognize your Starting-point
“Recognize Your Starting Point” There is a liberation theology for the First World. What is it that we need to be liberated from? How do we need to be freed so we can receive Christ? Inner biases must be faced, I’m convinced. Unless those inner liberations happen, we’re not going to be that rich soil […]
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