Rowland Croucher
Wounded Healers
Sightings 2/22/07 Wounded Healers — John G. Stackhouse, Jr. By now we’ve all heard the latest about Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and former head of the National Association of Evangelicals. Brother Haggard — and, as a fellow Christian, he is my brother — was found to have […]
The Story of Mel White
Mel White is an ordained minister of a Metropolitan Community Church in the United States. You may not have heard of the Metropolitan Community Church, but if you were to walk into one of their services you’d find it very much like a Baptist one. The faith would be solidly evangelical. The people around you […]
What’s so disturbing about grace?
Soundings No. 49 – 14 February 2007 by Peter Hobson As a Uniting Church minister, conversations about homosexuality and biblical hermeneutics are beginning to seem a bit tired. Our denomination has wrestled with issues of wholeness (and holiness), biblical faithfulness, Christian witness, authentic discipleship, costly grace and prophetic leadership over the last ten years or […]
Putin: It’s religion and nuclear weapons that protect Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country’s internal and external security depends upon two things – its traditional religions and its nuclear forces. “These themes are closely connected because both the traditional faiths of the Russian Federation and Russia’s nuclear shield are two things that strengthen Russian statehood and create the necessary conditions for […]
Anglican – Roman Catholic relations
Clarification on Anglican – Roman Catholic relations Anyone who has seen the news articles about a proposed reuniting of Anglicans and Catholics should read the clarifying press release below, put out by the two chairpersons of the Commission concerned. Note that the stated goal is full communion, not union. And anyone who’s wondering about the […]
Anglican Primates Meeting Communique
Primates Meeting Communique ACNS 4253 | ACO | 19 FEBRUARY 2007 Primates Meeting Communique The Communiqu © Of the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam 19th February 2007 1. We, the Primates and Moderators of the Anglican Communion, gathered for mutual consultation and prayer at Dar es Salaam between 15th and 19th February 2007 at the […]
A Tale of Two Americans
A Tale of Two Americans By: Justin Whelan Wednesday 21 February 2007 Two very different Americans are arriving in Australia this week. The reception each will receive, and the messages they have for Australia, could not be more different. Dick Cheney is the Vice-President of the United States. By all accounts, he is the main […]
Clergy abuse focus shifts to Baptists
Clergy abuse focus shifts to Baptists By ROSE FRENCH Thursday, February 22, 2007 The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The victims advocates who dogged the Roman Catholic Church over sex abuse by its clergy have now turned their attention to the Southern Baptists, accusing America’s largest Protestant denomination of also failing to root out molesters. […]
Homosexuality: a conservative approach to 1 Cor 6
Re: http://jmm.org.au/articles/12636.htm No doubt it will surprise some that I actually did read the article. But I did. And what may surprise some even more is that I found it much better than most posts on the topic in these NGs. I was particularly pleased, for example, with the author pointing out that the now […]
Diarmuid O’Murchu: Quantum Theology
Diarmuid O’Murchu: Quantum Theology: the Spiritual Implications of the New Physics. (Some rough notes) ’If there is enough matter in the universe gravity will stop this present expansion process and the universe will start contracting and will end up in a Big Crunch – a death by fire (heat death)… If there is not enough […]
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