Rowland Croucher
Being British
It’s funny……Being British Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Suspicion […]
Victims and the Cross
Gardels: Is Christianity superior to other religions? Girard: Yes. All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology. In mythology, a furious mob mobilizes against scapegoats held responsible for some huge crisis. The sacrifice of the guilty victim through collective violence ends the crisis and […]
Reaching People For Christ Or For The Culture?
REACHING PEOPLE FOR CHRIST OR FOR THE CULTURE? Jesus commands us to go and to reach out to all the world in his name. Yet sometimes, in evangelistically reaching out, we fall face down into the culture. In offering people the Christian faith, we offer them nothing much more than they could get anywhere else […]
Violence and the Sacred (Girard)
Violence and the Sacred Rene Girard’s Insights into Christianity by Gil Bailie Can Christianity claim to be universal and unique? Gil Bailie looks to Girard’s work to say it can. The thesis is this – ‘fallen’ human culture uses the scapegoat to achieve social unity. In Christ’s case the scapegoat was innocent and thus these […]
The Mystery of Sin (Girard)
The Mystery of Sin Rene Girard’s insights into Christianity – Part 2: By attempting to understand the mechanism of the scapegoat and the mysterious nature of sin, Bailie seeks expose what exactly Christ did by dying on the Cross. By Gil Bailie Now let us retrace our steps, this time paying special attention to the […]
Jesus And The Identity Of God (N T Wright)
JESUS AND THE IDENTITY OF GOD (Originally published in Ex Auditu 1998, 14, 42–56. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. THOMAS WRIGHT To address the subject of the theological significance of the earthly Jesus I take as my topic the central question of Jesus and God. The question must be approached from both sides. […]
Tim Tripp Cartoon
From a friend; The work of Tim Tripp is new to me. His series, the Prophet, rings a few bells. This one is called The rock in the desert http://www.ttdesign.com/c-pro6.htm
Living in Community
“Communal living means everybody uses the Combi but I fill it when it’s empty.”
The Dictatorship of Relativism
In response to the lead story this morning on Huffington Post in which the Pope says God will win out over Satan (this is news?), take a look at this conversation with the famous anthropologist and Roman Catholic, Rene Girard, saying the Pope is right to challenge the ‘dictatorship of relativism.” RENE GIRARD: POPE BENEDICT […]
Sunday School
A little girl went off to Sunday school for the first time. When she got home, her mother asked her how it went. “Very well.” “Did you enjoy yourself?” “Oh, yes, very much!” “What was your teacher’s name?” “I don’t know, but she must have been Jesus’ grandmother. She kept talking about him all the […]
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