Rowland Croucher
Multiculturalism in the U. K.
http://tinyurl.com/y8bv8t December 2006 Tony Blair formally declared Britain’s multiculturalist experiment over today as he told immigrants they had “a duty” to integrate with the mainstream of society. In a speech that overturned more than three decades of Labour support for the idea, he set out a series of requirements that were now expected from ethnic […]
The Night Before Christmas
Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual yultide celebration, and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential, including that species of domestic rodent known as “Mus musculus”. Hosiery was meticulously suspended from the forward edge of the wood-burning caloric apparatus, pursuant […]
Lack of Hospitality
It was a cold, wet, and windy night in outback Australia, and a swagman knocked on door of a farm. An old woman opened the door, and grudgingly let him in so he could sit by the fire – and, after all, he might be looking for work. The farmer family were having dinner, but […]
Best Fundamentalist Sites
[Note to the uninitiated: Irony at work!!!] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BEST FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCHES True Christian Church http://www.truechristian.com/index.html Landover Baptist …Unsaved Unwelcome! http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ Broomleigh Baptist Church http://church.broomleigh.org/ McChurch Tabernacle http://www.mcchurch.com/ First Church of the Last Laugh http://www.saintstupid.com/ Official Fundamentalist Webpage http://www.geocities.com/ruins_of_faith/fundamentalists Fundamentalist Application Form http://www.holysmoke.org/hs00/fundy.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BEST FUNDAMENTALIST PRODUCTS God Co. http://www.angelfire.com/pq/godco/frames.html Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanie http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ Jack […]
The Wilderness Way – a sermon
THE WILDERNESS WAY A sermon on Luke 3:1-6 & Malachi 3:1-4 by Nathan Nettleton, 10 December 2006 “Prepare the way of the Lord!” What is that all about? How does one prepare the way of the Lord? If someone asks you are you prepared for Christmas, you know straight away what they are likely to […]
The Jesus Seminar
The first and best-known project of Westar Institute is the Jesus Seminar. Launched in 1985, the Seminar was organized to discover and report a scholarly consensus on the historical authenticity of the sayings and events attributed to Jesus in the gospels. A third phase of the Jesus Seminar resulted in profiles of Jesus drawn by […]
Richard Rohr (again)
Richard Rohr: As far as I’m concerned, secularism is a child of Christianity. The incarnation, which is our great trumpcard, that God entered the material world and took on the form of the human. That sets the stage for what we now call secularism. Stephen Crittenden: The implication being that the material world is good. […]
Worship (Michael Frost)
From an interview on The Spirit of Things…. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1788313.htm#transcript Some interesting comments on the nature of love as expressed in worship… Rachael Kohn: One of the trends in contemporary Christian worship is to bring Christianity to the masses in the forms that the masses are familiar with, particularly rock bands. And the sort of songs […]
Apocalyptic
The trouble is, we don’t use apocalyptic literature in the way Paul’s hearers were used to, so we hear it in a vacuum that they wouldn’t have. To imagine how the recipients of Paul’s letter would have heard apocalyptic material, we have to do a fair bit of work on getting familiar with the nature […]
Nonviolence and the Christian Faith
My Core Convictions: Contents Part I: First Principles — Theses presented in paragraph format: 1 Evangelical Anthropology as a Necessary Complement to Theology; 2 God is Love; 3 Mimetic Desire and the Two Ways: Love or Resentment; 4 Falling into the Way of Satan; 5 Satan Casting out Satan and Apocalypse (5.4); 6 The Biblical […]
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