Rowland Croucher
Syria’s six simultaneous conflicts
April 17, 2013 01:23 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The conflict in Syria has assumed more dangerous dimensions with the latest developments along the Syrian-Lebanese border, where forces with and against both the Syrian government and Hezbollah have engaged in cross-border shelling. This builds on a recent spate of tit-for-tat kidnappings […]
From a Christian scholar-of-Islam: Challenging Worldview Clichés
Challenging Worldview Clich ƒ ©s Posted: 16 Apr 2013 Over the past decade I have had the opportunity to speak to thousands of people about Islam across five continents. At question time, the same issues keep coming up. The questions which have stayed in my mind are all about world view assumptions. These are key ideas […]
Smile!
When a woman got married she put a shoebox in the closet and told her husband not to open it. After over 50 years of marriage she was dying and told him to open the box. When he opened it there were 2 doilies and $85,000.00 He ask why this was in the box. She […]
The Evangelicals are a’changing – on at least three issues
Sightings Evangelicals Change and Make Changes by Martin E. Marty Monday | April 15 2013 The familiar ¢â‚¬Å“Protestant-Catholic-Jew ¢â‚¬ mantra no longer defines American religion. Politicians, bloggers, statisticians, and demographers now conventionally add ¢â‚¬Å“Evangelical ¢â‚¬ to the classifying. When Will Herberg wrote the canonical book Protestant-Catholic-Jew in the mid-fifties, Evangelicals appeared to be marginal at best. In […]
Homosexual ‘cure’ is hell for many
1. When faith and sexuality collide Date April 14, 2013 Jill Stark Senior writer for The Sunday Age Damien Christie (left) and David Lograsso. Photo: Craig Sillitoe Right to the end, Damien Christie feared that the God he worshipped did not love him back. Rejected by his Pentecostal church for his sexuality, he underwent gay ”conversion” […]
Same-Sex Marriage (Pat Brittenden, New Zealand)
An open letter to the Church in NZ on Same-Sex Marriage April 13, 2013 By Pat Brittenden 6 Comments Dear fellow Church members, This is an open letter about the Same-Sex Marriage debate to the Christians of New Zealand. I have been a supporter of Marriage Equality for the LGBTI community in New Zealand for several years. To […]
Sydney Anglicanism: a(nother) critique
An outsider ¢â‚¬â„¢s response to an insider ¢â‚¬â„¢s defence of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney given by Michael P. Jensen in his book, Sydney Anglicanism: An Apology, (Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2012). by Kevin Giles: ‘I encourage those who get this paper to buy Michaels ¢â‚¬â„¢ book and read it carefully before reading my response and when […]
Paradigm Shifts: where the church has got it wrong
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Jim Wallis: Politics, Gay Marriage and Immigration
Jim Wallis Talks Faith’s Role In Politics, Gay Marriage And Immigration Posted: 04/05/2013 7:59 pm EDT | Updated: 04/06/2013 NEW YORK — A little over a year ago, during some of the most heated moments of the presidential election, the Rev. Jim Wallis went on a three-month sabbatical. The president and founder of Sojourners magazine and the progressive Christian […]
Approach/Avoidance (Richard Rohr)
Richard’s Daily Meditations: Seven Underlying Themes of Richard Rohr’s Teachings Second Theme: If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side (Foundation). Approach/Avoidance Rudolph Otto in his book The Idea […]
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