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Gender-Accurate Bibles

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

1st July 2001 G’day all. enterfornone writes: >The Bible would need some significant changes in order to be >non-sexist. I’d seriously question the accuracy of a non-sexist >Bible. You’re using the term in a different way than Rowland is. I don’t think the term “non-sexist” is helpful here. A better term is “gender accurate”. That […]

Racial And Religious Tolerance Bill (Victoria, 2001)

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

G’day Rowland, here is what I would consider a well thought reply to the proposed Bill by my fellow Presbyter Rev Dr Clarnette. It’s not a summary per se, but it’s reflective of our position overall on this bill. Regards Darren Middleton RACIAL & RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE BILL\ Comment on the proposed Bracks Government, Racial and […]

Ethics

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-122 ETHICS (2) From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Blessed are those who have no reason to condemn themselves because of what they approve. Romans 14:22. Ethics and morality, we noted [yesterday], is all about what is right and […]

British Scientist-Priest Wins $1m Templeton Prize

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

14 March 2001 Arthur Peacocke, an English biochemist and Anglican priest who founded the Society of Ordained Scientists, today won the million-dollar Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion–in money terms, the world’s largest annual prize awarded to individuals. The announcement was made at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York. Peacocke, who […]

What To Do With Your Doubts (1)

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-089 WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR DOUBTS (1) From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair. 2 Corinthians 4:8. There are four things we can do […]

Nudity And Sex

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

G’day all. A ‘Net friend writes: >Melbourne’s Moomba celebrations at the weekend included a parade that in >the words of the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper gave melburnians the >’sock treatment’ with “topless street artists and raunchy floats >spicing up a traditional family day”. […] >So I would ask what is it that we are supposedly […]

The Cry For A Reason In Suffering

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-095 (Apologetics) THE CRY FOR A REASON IN SUFFERING (Part 1) by Ravi Zacharias With these words, the eighteenth-century Scottish skeptic David Hume summed up humanity’s greatest obstacle to believing that God exists: Were a stranger to drop suddenly into this world, I would show him as specimen of its ills – […]

The Cry For A Reason In Suffering

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by Ravi Zacharias With these words, the eighteenth-century Scottish skeptic David Hume summed up humanity’s greatest obstacle to believing that God exists: Were a stranger to drop suddenly into this world, I would show him as specimen of its ills – a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field […]

If You Doubt Sometimes, You’re In Good Company!

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-097 IF YOU DOUBT SOMETIMES, YOU’RE IN GOOD COMPANY! From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see. John 9:25. A great American preacher of a generation ago, Harry Emerson […]

Lawyer Tests The Evidence For Easter

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-059 (Book Review) LAWYER TESTS THE EVIDENCE FOR EASTER By RICHARD N. OSTLING AP Religion Writer She was a partner in a major Houston law firm who had been a religious skeptic for much of her adult life. She decided to investigate whether Christianity is true, and the process made a believer […]

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