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Lay Ministry
From Bishop Willimon 03.26.2007 The Point of Pastoral Ministry: Lay Ministry Bill Easum, our consultant in ministry in North Alabama, has a provocative word about the need to empower the laity to do ministry: “You know, one of the issues here is that everyone relies too much on the pastor to do all the ministry.” […]
Speaking of Speaking of Faith
Sightings 3/26/07 Speaking of Speaking of Faith — Martin E. Marty My website reminds readers that I cannot write dust-jacket blurbs for forthcoming books, a policy explained on the “Regrets” page. Sometimes, however, when I read a manuscript critically for a publisher or an author — my “Regrets” page also explains why such readings are […]
New Hospital
So that is how it all happens…. Doctors were told to contribute to the construction of a new hospital wing at the hospital. What was their reaction The allergists voted to scratch it. The dermatologists preferred no rash moves. The gastroenterologists had a gut feeling about it. The neurologists thought the administration had a lot […]
Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test?
March 27, 2007 Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? Dr. James Emery White Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department of Boston University, has written a new book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – and Doesn’t. For the last two years, Prothero has administered a fifteen-question quiz he gives his […]
Poverty and power: Some half-time analysis
analysis Soundings No. 53 – 28 March 2007 Poverty and power: Some half time analysis John McKinnon We have reached the half-way point of the program to halve global poverty by 2015. Members of the United Nations, including Australia, agreed to this target at the Millennium Summit in 2000. The half time score is not […]
Anglican Study Guide: Listening to Gay and Lesbian people
Theological Basis for the Study Guide The 1976 meeting of ACC 3 said this about the Communion: “As in the first century, we can expect the Holy Spirit to press us to listen to each other, to state new insights frankly, and to accept implications of the Gospel new to us, whether painful or exhilarating.” […]
Prayer Focus Update (barnabas Fund)
April 2007 Issue 126 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. It can be sent via email, is available as printable […]
Hardline Islamic Clerics Urge Tax Cheating
AUSTRALIAN NEWS 28th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER HARDLINE CLERICS URGE TAX CHEATING Hardline Muslim clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Islamic law. Muslim leaders have warned that fundamentalist imams who put sharia law ahead of Australian law are also condoning welfare […]
School Chaplains in Victoria, Australia
AUSTRALIAN NEWS 28th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * VICTORIAN STATE SCHOOLS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED CHAPLAINS ———————————————– VICTORIAN STATE SCHOOLS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED CHAPLAINS More than 120 Victorian state schools are thinking of installing a government-subsidised chaplain, according to the Council for Christian Education in Schools. The deadline to apply […]
Confirmation class
(A theological liberal approach. Rowland). March 25, 2007 Confirmed Agnostics By Harry T. Cook As a parish minister, I have as part of my job description the responsibility to oversee the religious formation of the congregation’s children and youths. They come to me – or are sent to me – when they are 14 and […]
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