Rowland Croucher
How to Cope with Stress and Trauma
This is brief. It’s only recently that books/articles about Stress, PTSD etc. have mentioned the most important variable – choosing your parents well. A little more attention has been given to choosing your friends/mentors well. And a lot of attention is devoted to the ‘deck-chairs on the Titanic’ factors – lifestyle habits, like relaxation techniques, […]
God and Caesar (N T Wright)
GOD AND SECULAR SOCIETY God and Caesar: the Bible, Postmodernity and the new imperialism N.T.Wright St Mark’s Review 2006 (2) No. 201 pages 3-13 N T Wright gave this address (here in summary form) at St Mark’s National Theological Centre in 2006. The theme of this paper is the confrontation between the power of God […]
Faith in Australia
15-Mar-07 Dear Friends, Our apologies if you have already received this edition of ‘Faith and Community’. We experienced some techincal difficulties which may have led to some duplication. Welcome to another edition of ‘Faith and Community’ – EA’s free digest of recent writing on public theology and issues of interest to Australian Christians. In this […]
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [1]
Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (2004) Brian McLaren is probably today’s most widely-read ‘progressive evangelical’. Surprisingly he’s never attended classes for credit in a theological institution, nor has any ordination qualifications from a bona fide denomination. ‘Rather I am a lowly English major who snuck into pastoral ministry accidentally through the back doors of the […]
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [2]
PART TWO: THE KIND OF CHRISTIAN I AM 5. WHY I AM MISSIONAL The term ‘missional’ was popularized in the 1990s by the Gospel and Our Culture Network (gocn.org), and its important book ‘The Missional Church’ (Darrell Guder et.al, 1998). Earlier David Bosch, Lesslie Newbigin and Vincent Donovan insisted that theology ought to be a […]
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [3]
More from Brian McLaren’s ‘A Generous Orthodoxy’: 14. WHY I AM METHODIST The Protestants – Luther and Calvin – created intellectual systems. But nobody before the Methodists seriously developed a system of spiritual formation to replace the Catholic system of spirituality. They did for spiritual formation what Luther and Calvin did for doctrine (the latter […]
Time and space
From a friend who is a Christian and a physicist: Time is just another dimension, but not quite the same as the space dimensions. There is even speculation about other time dimensions other than the one we experience. Of course there can be no time, just as there can be no fourth space dimension etc. […]
Christ means Change
Easter keeps happening, even though we are now four weeks after Easter, every time someone is converted to Christ. The Christian life comes neither naturally nor normally. Little within us prepares us for the shock of moral regeneration that is occasioned by the work of Christ among us. What God in Christ wants to do […]
Soldiers and Post-traumatic stress
Family blames ADF for soldier’s suicide Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 30/04/2007 Reporter: Matt Peacock Reports that four soldiers who served abroad committed suicide after returning home have put post-traumatic stress disorder back in the headlines. The family of one of those soldiers, 25-year-old Geoffrey Gregg, says he was a changed man after serving in Iraq […]
India: How far is Jaipur from Malatya?
Subj: India: How far is Jaipur from Malatya? In modern, progressive, secular Turkey, anti-Christian hatred has been whipped up by Islamist and nationalist forces and cultivated and perpetuated in the media, often by men and women of influence seeking political mileage. Unfortunately the hate insurgency has not been neutralised by a truth counterinsurgency, and so […]
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