Rowland Croucher
End of Year exam
It’s that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test. Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it’s important to keep mentally alert. If you don’t use it, you lose it! Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of […]
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (a conservative critique)
A review of The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins. Part 1. Bantam Press, 2006. Many years ago when I read the short volume by atheist Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian, I thought: there is not much substance to this. Generalisations, straw men, red herrings and misrepresentations seemed to characterise the book. In […]
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Part 2 (a conservative critique)
A review of The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins. Part 2. Bantam Press, 2006. As mentioned in part one, a book this size really deserves a book-length response. Thus I can here only highlight some of what I regard as the book’s many shortcomings. A few more specific issues will here be addressed. A New […]
Was Jesus Christ in Heaven while also on earth? (More)
Picking up on the discussion about the ‘true humanity’ of Jesus Christ (See Google groups under ‘The Humanity of Jesus Christ’ , May 5, 2006 et seq.) I wrote (in part): Jesus was truly human: he was not omniscient (he confessed he didn’t know something); he was not omnipresent (only in one place at a […]
Five Best Books
FIVE BEST Worth Saving Essential books for understanding Christianity. BY GEORGE WEIGEL Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST 1. “The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church” Edited by F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone (Oxford University, 1997). “The Christian Church has been so closely interwoven with the course of Western civilization that her history, life […]
Simply Christian, The Last Word (N T Wright)
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N. T. Wright HarperSanFrancisco, 256 pp Wright is the perfect person to displace C. S. Lewis in the church’s abiding dialogue with skepticism. The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture by N. T. Wright HarperSanFrancisco, 160 pp., $19.95 ~~~ […]
Humor and the Gospel
Using jokes and fun in Christian communication “The Gospel is too serious a matter to present in a serious manner” Humor is very valuable in evangelism and Christian communication because: a.. humor breaks down barriers and can smuggle ideas and challenges into people’s hearts. b.. a joke or humorous situation is often very memorable. c.. […]
Two good books
From a netfriend: … Excellent books by Philip Jenkins. N.T. Wright recommends Jenkins’ book ‘Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way’, OUP, 2001. (Also read Jenkins’ ‘The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice’, OUP, 2003)
How Can The Bible Be Authoritative? (N T Wright)
How Can The Bible Be Authoritative? (The Laing Lecture 1989, and the Griffith Thomas Lecture 1989. Originally published in Vox Evangelica, 1991, 21, 7–32. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N.T. Wright I am very grateful for the invitation to give this particular lecture, I should perhaps say that my reflections here arise not so […]
Wars from a Jewish perspective
I asked a Jewish friend: What kind of God who would order the slaughter of the Amalekites? Jewish friend: I don’t understand your question. I assume that the “kind of God” I worship, is the same one that you do too. Am I wrong in this? RC: Yes and no. See, eg. http://jmm.org.au/articles/17630.htm not written […]
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