Rowland Croucher
Inerrancy (Bishop N T Wright)
This is from an interview somewhere – you can probably find it fairly easily on google Interviewer (the ‘pond is the Atlantic Ocean): “One great controversy—I’m not sure it’s a controversy across the pond—is the role of the Scriptures. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “inerrancy of the Scriptures” or “infallibility of the Scriptures.” Yes. […]
N T Wright biography
Nicholas Thomas Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1948 and was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism. From before the age of seven or eight he already felt called to go into Christian ministry. Growing up, Wright had an interest in music and sports, interests that he retains to this day. He is […]
Much Loved Roses
An elderly parish priest was tending his garden near a convent when a passerby stopped to inquire after the priest’s much-loved roses. “Not bad,” said the priest, “but they suffer from a disease peculiar to this area known as the black death.” “What on earth is that?” asked the passerby, anxious to increase his garden […]
The Cloning Debate
September 2006 IGNORE THE HYPE IN THE CLONING DEBATE An edited version of an article written by Nicholas Toni-Filipina, senior lecturer (bioethics), at the John Paul II Institute. Editors comment: We realise that this subject is fairly technical and difficult for non medical people to come to grips with. It is however a subject of […]
Sunday School
The Sunday School teacher was a bit surprised at a sentence Allison had put into her story about people who help us. “The fireman came down the ladder pregnant,” she’d written. “Do you know what the word ‘pregnant’ means?” the teacher asked. “Sure I do,” said Allison. “It means ‘carrying a child’.” . ========================== . […]
Tradition
The Promise and Threat of Tradition My former student, Steve Compton, has become a fine leader in church development. Compton notes that one of the purposes of the church is to nurture and to renovate our Christian tradition. We are inherently “traditionalists.” Yet tradition can be a two edged sword. Here are some of Compton’s […]
Muslim-Protestant Relations
Sightings 9/11/06 Muslim-Protestant Relations — Martin E. Marty “Dumb me!” one says or thinks — at least this one does — when awakened to knowledge of what one’s sleepy eyes and consciousness had long overlooked. For a half-century, I, like the colleagues of my generation among American religious historians, could babble for thousands of hours […]
India
FORMER APARTHEID POLICE MINISTER REPENTS AND APOLOGISES TO BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS Adriaan Vlok, the former apartheid regime’s law and order police minister, recently went to church in Soweto and during the service washed the feet of Reverend Frank Chikane, a person he had sought to kill during the years of struggle in South Africa. The […]
Islam and the West: two views by Muslims
The poisonous political cycle that harms us all September 9, 2006 There is something frightening about two sides fighting a war each claims the other started., writes Waleed Aly. ON THE first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Britain’s most vile terror-loving organisation, al-Muhajiroun, held a celebratory conference. Members gathered to recall how “magnificently” the […]
Iraq didn’t start Islamist violence
Iraq didn’t start Islamist violence September 11, 2006 It is now widely accepted that Britain has become the epicentre of Islamic terrorism in the West. Why is that? To many people the answer is obvious. It’s about Iraq. That case was made most recently by British Muslim leaders, who wrote to Tony Blair two days […]
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