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David and Svea Flood: an amazing missionary story
(Picked this up on a Usenet newsgroup: Can anyone verify this story? Rowland.) Update (3rd March 2005): I just found your interpretation of this story through a Google search, and noticed your request for verification. You may have received this already, but just in case… The story is indeed legitimate, and can be found detailed […]
John Updike on Religion
November 19, 2004 Episode no. 812 On Thursday, Nov. 18, novelist John Updike spoke at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. Read Benedicta Cipolla’s report. After 21 novels and countless short stories, John Updike still creates characters who behave in the usual Updikean fashion, embarking on ribald sexual […]
John Stott
From a netfriend: I first enountered John Stott at a mission to Wits University, (South Africa?) which lasted a week. The Rationalist Society was along at every meeting to heckle, and handing out tracts at the door, such as Bertrand Russell’s “Why I am not a Christian”. John Stott dealt with their questions straightforwardly and […]
Selwyn Hughes: ‘My Story’
Selwyn Hughes: ‘My Story’. Selwyn Hughes is one of the best-known names in the Christian world, due largely to the huge readership of his daily devotional notes, ‘Every Day with Jesus’. (The Crusade for World Revival website says it’s half a million people in 150 countries.) There’s not a simple, undifferentiated genre of ‘Christian autobiography’. […]
F. W. Boreham: a tribute
“Through his voluminous writing Boreham was a teacher of preachers. I would concur with the assessment of the eloquent preacher John Henry Jowett who penned: “I would advise you to read all the sermons of F. W. Boreham.” What was it that constituted the chemical compounding of F. W. Boreham’s mastery? It was the immensity […]
John Stott
Who Is John Stott? By DAVID BROOKS November 30, 2004 Jim Russert is a great journalist, but he made a mistake last weekend. He included Jerry Falwell and Al Sharpton in a discussion on religion and public life. Inviting these two bozos onto “Meet the Press” to discuss that issue is like inviting Britney Spears […]
St. Moses the Black
St. Moses the Black was a former gang leader, murderer, and thief in ancient Africa. However, he became a model of transformation. His is one of the most inspiring stories among the African saints. Moses, an escaped slave, was the leader of a group of 75 robbers. He was a large and powerful man, who […]
Billy Graham’s Last Sermon?
Pastors.com Article: 12,000 make decisions for Christ at crusade; Billy Graham speculates about his futureSome of you will have already seen this article. I thought it was worth passing on in the hope that people find it interesting, encouraging and perhaps even inspiring. 12,000 make decisions for Christ at crusade; Billy Graham speculates about his […]
Copernicus, Galileo and Spong
In response to this statement… 8. The story of the Ascension assumed a three-tiered universe and is therefore not capable of being translated into the concepts of a post-Copernican space age. an intelligent netfriend wrote: Statements like this from Spong really irk me. They suggest to me an ignorance about Copernicus through failure to read […]
Steve Biko and the South African Church
From Mark: Read “The Testimony of Steve Biko” Edited by Millard Arnold (Maurice Temple Smith; London:1979) Need I mention your country’s treatment of Christians like Steve Biko (an Anglican … p. 98) who chose to defy your previous racist government? Biko was well versed in the teachings of the Catholic Paulo Friere whom the white […]
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