Apologetics
Social Justice And The Gospel
Rowland: [This hasn’t appeared on my a.r.c. list yet, but I’d like to reply immediately. And I’ll see if I can configure Netscape to produce something nice, rather than scattered ends-of-lines:-)] Michael: Let me start this reply with a complaint. By replying only to the introduction of my longish post, and snipping the meat of […]
Casino Myths
The four myths of Crown Casino By Tim Costello The greatest spiritual challenge Melbourne has faced is the recently opened Crown Casino. It has deceived us by the following myths. The orgy of free publicity the Crown Casino has attracted these past few weeks should cause us to pause and reflect. We are celebrating an […]
Wik
A Free Speaking Church Goer’s Guide to Wik in ’98 -Frank Brennan SJ (and a lawyer BTW) EUREKA STREET – January- February 1998 Warren Entsch is a robust pastoralist from north Queensland. He also chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title. When he called for a boycott of churches in the light of comments […]
A Good Funeral
A ‘good’ funeral: shaping the final exit By Paul Sheppy What makes a funeral Christian? Many ministers find it difficult to take what they call a ‘non-Christian’ funeral, meaning the funeral of a non-Christian. There is, I think, a difficulty with using this phrase. Funerals are seldom as clearly classifiable as that direct equation suggests. […]
Capital Punishment
In <>, “Darren R Middleton” <> wrote: >Personally I would be in favour of such a move on the basis that Scripture>seems to encourage capital punishment outside of the cultic law (ie Gen 9:6). For Jesus’ attitude to Capital Punishment, see John 8:1-11. Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone, flick […]
Parsonage For Sale
An interesting summary-of-ideas about a topic of high importance to clergy families… From: “Thomas F. Fischer” <> One of the most frequent-but unknown-content issues in conflict is the sale of the parsonage. Though approximately two-thirds of all congregations have sold their parsonages to enable the pastor to have his own home, the remaining one-third may […]
Homophobia
> Can someone help me out here please. I’m trying to work out what > homophobia is. > > We have, for example: > > agorophobia – fear of open spaces (Greek agora, market-place) > anglophobia – fear of England and the English (Latin Anglus, English) > claustrophobia – fear of closed spaces (Latin claustrum, […]
Racism In Australia: What’s Behind Wik?
(Notes of a talk to a mainly youthful audience, Syndal Baptist Church 7 December 1997) Let me begin by telling you where I’m coming from. My family taught us that if we tried hard enough we could get anywhere. We were secure – emotionally, spiritually, financially. We worked hard: so others should work hard. And […]
Bad News Numbers ***** Good News Numbers
The School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSNDs) of Baltimore were circulating this via email. They got the list from Catholic Relief Services. CRS “acted as a composer of Bread For The World Institute’s 1998 Report: Hunger in a Global Economy.” Nearly a quarter of humanity – 1.3 billion people – live in absolute poverty with […]
World Population Crisis
We need a Christian (ie. not traditional Catholic) theology and strategy to cope with this tragedy. (Telling them to have fewer babies is a Western, stupid/ignorant response!) *** Population to double in 74 poor countries – report The population boom is still booming in the world’s poorest countries, even as it levels off in […]
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