Rowland Croucher
A Child’s View
A little girl was lying on the floor with her crayons and a large drawing pad when her father came into the room and asked, “What are you drawing, honey?” Without looking up, she replied, “I’m drawing a picture of God.” Her father smiled and said, “But no one knows what God looks like.” Without […]
C S Lewis on ‘The Historical Jesus’
[from The Screwtape Letters, Number 13] Many [scholars] think that Christianity began going wrong, and departing from the doctrine of its Founder, at a very early stage. [Hence] the conception of a ‘historical Jesus’ to be found by clearing away later ‘accretions and perversions’…. The advantages of these constructions, [changing] every thirty years or so, […]
For Lexophiles
FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS): * A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired. * A will is a dead giveaway. * Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. * A backward poet writes inverse. * A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion. * When a clock is hungry it […]
The Gospel and Meal Jesus Gave Us (N T Wright)
N. T. Wright on the Gospel and Meal Jesus Gave Us What can people inside and outside your church learn about the gospel from the way you preach and practice the Lord’s Supper? Bishop Tom Wright wrote Simply Christian and a book on communion to explain why Christ’s resurrection is good news for the whole […]
Damn preacher
Luke 6:17-26 by William H. Willimon All I know about Jesus is what I heard him say. That’s all I know about almost anybody. It’s not true that “deeds speak louder than words.” Only words speak. The old “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one” is only partly true. Most ministerial speech these days […]
Hrant Dink and Turkey
The martyrdom of Hrant Dink Gwynne Dyer, Jordan Times When they buried Hrant Dink in Istanbul last Tuesday (January 23), more than 100,000 Turks came to his funeral, filling the streets and chanting “We are all Armenians”. There is a war going on for the soul of Turkey, but at least many Turks are on […]
Not easy being Lebanon
It is not easy thing being Lebanon By Frederic C. Hof Tuesday, January 30, 2007, Daily Star, Lebanon Six months after the 2006 summer war, Lebanon is essentially the same place it was six months and (for that matter) 60 years before the war: a non-state entity trying to make a go of confessional coexistence […]
For God’s Sake Say It!
Weekly Message from Bishop WIllimon 01.29.2007 For God’s Sake Say It! When I was courting The Rev. Carl Parker’s daughter (who eventually became my wife, Patsy) Mr. Parker was serving as a District Superintendent in the Marion District of the Methodist Church. I was nervous. I wanted to make a good impression. I was considering […]
Somehow, Jesus has survived even the church
Somehow, Jesus has survived even the church. by Jim Wallis “I’m a secular Jewish country music songwriter and disk jockey,” my interviewer on a Nashville radio station said. “But I love your stuff and have been following your book tour.” He told me he loved my “riffs” and would like to spend an evening together […]
God
`God, we know you are in charge, but why don’t you make it slightly more obvious?’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1990
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