Rowland Croucher
Baptism in times of drought
From a pastor-friend: Given that much of the early Church lived in areas lacking in water, the problem is one they already dealt with. Following is an early church text from “the Didache” or “The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles” – an anonymous work dated somewhere between 70 AD to 150 AD. I scanned it […]
The Worst Sins
“It broke my heart. But remember I was a believer. Though I understood the power of the Scriptures they were quoting from, and I did believe in the healing powers of faith, I was seeing it debased and demeaned. But unlike a lot of the people I understood the language. What’s always bothered me about […]
Jesus and the Existence of God
A netfriend (on a Usenet newsgroup) wrote: So, now that we have eliminated the bible as evidence of God, Moi: Have I? Friend: how do you establish a God? 🙂 Moi: Jesus Friend: Would you like to expand some on that. Moi: I’m a little hesitant to begin what might (should?) be a long thread […]
Children in Church
A little boy was in a relative’s wedding. As he was coming down the aisle, he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar. So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the aisle. […]
Imagination and Ministry
Weekly Message from Bishop Willimon 12.11.2006 IMAGINATION AND MINISTRY “The Bible is a book of the imagination.” So writes Harvard’s Peter Gomes. One reason why Peter is such a great preacher, and biblical interpreter, is that he has a fertile imagination. It is as if Scripture has as its purpose to stoke, to fund, and […]
Winning Isn’t the Only Thing
Dec. 10, 2006 By Harry T. Cook The victorious but fractious Democrats are poised to run Congress with their one-vote majority in the Senate and a barely comfortable margin in the House. They will ride back in to Washington, D.C., at the new year on the crest of a strong antiwar sentiment and try to […]
The Special Christmas Pudding
The Special Christmas Pudding An English vicar tells the story of going to visit a family who had just lost a beloved aunt in the first week of Advent. In the course of the conversation, it was decided that the aunt’s remains would be cremated, and the ashes sent by post to members of the […]
Password
TODAYS RIDDLE : A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his computer terminal. His password wouldn’t work. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and […]
Saving Grace
Dec. 10, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Luke 3: 1-6 Luke is accomplishing three things in these six short verses. She clearly meant to accomplish two of them, viz., 1) the placement of Jesus’ public career in an attestable historic context, and 2) the connection between Jesus and the figure of a long-anticipated messiah. The […]
Interview with Richard Rohr
Interview with Richard Rohr on The Religion Report on Radio National. The full transcript can be accessed at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1788767.htm. He says some provocative things about church and ministry. An excerpt follows: Richard Rohr got some flak from readers of his column in the National Catholic Reporter recently when he suggested that few transformations happen in […]
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