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Leo Tolstoy – A Confession …re heretics etc
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… From Leo Tolstoy – “A Confession and other religious writings” (Trans: Jane Kentish; Penguin; London 1987) p. 57 – 58 I was not so much alienated by the fact that in expounding their religious beliefs they confused Christian truths that had always been close to me with […]
My Story – with photos
Imagine a huge enlargement of a black and white photo (shades of grey actually). It is a cross section of part of a building – grey, cold, stone, poorly lit. The room at the centre has a group of people standing around, talking about the thin pale girl crouching in the shadows. The one bare […]
Mordachai Vanunu
Jerusalem on Mordachai Vanunu ACNS 3817 | MIDDLE EAST | 21 APRIL 2004 A photograph for this article is available here: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/38/00/acns3817. cfm A statement from the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem on Mordachai Vanunu The Rt Revd Riah Abu El-Assal 21 April 2004 As chief pastor of the Anglican community in the Holy Land, I […]
Christian Philosopher – Soren Kierkegaard
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote SOREN KIERKEGAARD from http://www.webcom.com/kierke/bio/writer1.html … in 1843, he published no fewer than six books, of which the first is the longest he ever wrote. It is significantly entitled Either/Or (Enten-Eller); and it leads us straight into the world of Kierkegaard’s thought. An “either/or” confronts us with a choice, and it […]
Love
Angel Feathers, Joy & Love Feather Forestwalker, 2/10/99. (Read to our congregation as a sermon on the day I was re-baptized, February 14, 1999). If angels have wings, then God sent one or two to my car last night, as they left feather-prints on the glass and roof of my car. The ice formed last […]
What is Marriage?
The escalating controversy over same-sex unions is causing many Americans to re-examine the definition of marriage. What are the religious and moral values of the institution of marriage? Do homosexual unions have something in common with the union of a man and a woman? Judy Valente explores the nation’s evolving attitudes towards traditional marriage, shaped […]
E. Roberts-Thomson [2]
In October 1949 Edward concluded his ministry at Hobart and accepted an invitation to the pastorate at Brunswick, Victoria. Eric Burleigh, now a professor at the Baptist College of Victoria, inducted him on November 6. Ron Rogers, who later pastored the Hobart church, recalls that people did not speak much of Edward, and that memories […]
E. Roberts-Thomson [3]
As already noted, throughout the twentieth century there were concerted efforts on the part of denominational officials to bring about organic unity between Baptists and the Churches of Christ. During 1951 G.H. Morling travelled to London where he addressed the Commonwealth and Empire Baptist Congress, and participated in a conference of Principals of Baptist Colleges […]
E. Roberts-Thomson [1]
Dawn of a new era or recipe for disaster? The rise and demise of Edward Roberts-Thomson as Principal of the Baptist Theological College of New South Wales Text of an address by Rev Rod Benson to the Baptist Historical Society of NSW at Morling College, Thursday February 5, 2004, for publication in The Baptist Recorder […]
Year of hope and pain for Archbishop
ACNS 3788 | ENGLAND | 27 FEBRUARY 2004 Year of hope and pain for Archbishop By Martha Linden [ACNS Source: Press Association] The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated his first anniversary today and spoke of the pressures of his job and the pain of the furore over the nomination of a gay bishop. The Most Revd […]
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