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Sex, Marriage And The Church
By Muriel Porter (HarperCollins 1996) Book Review/Essay by Rowland Croucher ‘Pleasure and play have remained the most difficult concepts of all for theologians to embrace, whether in sexuality or anywhere else!’ (p.120). Muriel Porter’s book, writes The Bishop of Edinburgh, the Most Revd. Richard Holloway in his Foreword, ‘is a scholarly study of a paradigm […]
Sexual Addiction
Subject: Sexual Addiction Overview Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:33:12 -0400 From: “Thomas F. Fischer” To: Sexual Addiction–No One’s Immune Number 13 Church crises can take it’s toll, often lending itself to various obsessions or addictions. The following outline/overview covers what is perhaps the most damaging to congregations, pastors, and their families. Notice how this […]
Sex, Marriage And The Church: A Response
Date: 30 Aug 1997 From: (Randal Mandock) Rowland Croucher writes: *In summary, Dr Muriel Porter’s polemic is aimed at traditional Christian sexual morality, which, she says, has severely disadvantaged single people, homosexuals, Catholic priests who might wish to marry, and Catholic couples who want to practise contraception (or remarry). The conservative Christian standard of faithfulness […]
Sexuality:National Church Life Survey
Media Release June 20, 1997 Results From the 1996 National Church Life Survey While not the central focus of the National Church Life Survey (NCLS), the 1996 survey asked attenders about their attitudes to a range of social and ethical questions as well as questions on church practices. It is not the Intention of the […]
Marriage And Family Commitment
AN OLD MOVIE ABOUT FAMILY COMMITMENT by Norman Bales Recently, I watched an old movie, Meet Me in St. Louis, filmed in 1944. The story develops around the Alonzo Smith family, who live in an upper middle class Edwardian home. The year is 1903 and they eagerly await the start of the 1904 World’s Fair. […]
Pastors’ Kids
A SPECIAL LOOK AT RAISING P. K.’S by Norman Bales My wife and I raised four “P. K.s (That stands for “Preacher’s Kids” as every P. K. knows). I don’t hold myself up as a shinning example of success in this enterprise, but I do feel like I should qualify for combat pay. People say […]
Grandparents
Subject: All About Families Newsletter Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 From: “All About Families” <> Volume 2 Number 32 August 31, 1997 Norman Bales, editor CONTENTS JUST VISITING GRANDPARENTS RESOURCES FOR MARRIAGE IMPROVEMENT JUST VISITING Ann and I will be leaving on Thursday for Pascagoula, Mississippi. We will be conducting a seminar on “Mending A […]
Boycott Intolerance
What do Australian Christians boycott? I don’t agree with all of this but it got me thinking… (and most of my church friends visit Disneyland when they go to the U.S.) BOYCOTT INTOLERANCE, NOT DISNEY’S WORLD MICK LaSALLE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1997 It’s the American way, when angry, to go for the […]
Feminist Quotes
From: (Andrew Bromage) Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Christian Coalition and Feminism… Date: 27 Jun 1997 G’day all. Rowland Croucher < quotes: “[The] feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become […]
Homosexuality Sermon
The following are notes of a ‘sermon’ (read ‘talk’) I gave in a Baptist Church sometime in the late 90s early 2000’s… Important Note (March 2013): I have done more thinking/research since this was preached – over 10 years ago. Do I still try to pursue a life of grace? Yes. Do I believe Lesbian […]
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