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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Jung’s Answer To Job – Part 1

By and others ⋅ September 13, 2003 ⋅ 4 comments

Carl Jung – “Answer to Job” in “The Portable Jung” Edited by Joseph Campbell (Penguin 1971) p. 526 In what follows I shall attempt just such a discussion, such a “coming to terms” with certain religious traditions and ideas. Since I shall be dealing with numinous factors, my feeling is challenged quite as much as […]

Christoph Blumhardt

By and others ⋅ September 13, 2003 ⋅ 3 comments

From a friend of a friend: I have been exploring http://www.plough.com/topics/Blumhardts.html and have come across the person of Christoph Blumhardt. Anyone of you heard of him? He is tied up somehow with the Bruderhof. I am about to track down his book called “Action in Waiting” which I have found in the USQ library catalogue. Here’s some […]

Enthronement Of Rowan Williams As The 104th Archbishop Of Canterbury

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

ACNS 3327 | ACNS SPECIAL REPORT | 27 FEBRUARY 2003 Enthronement of Rowan Williams as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury In a ceremony that included everything from robust Welsh hymns to colourful dance, thunderous applause and pageantry, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Rowan Douglas Williams, was enthroned today following ancient custom in Canterbury […]

Captain Of Columbia Space Shuttle

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I had the privilege of attending a Steve Green concert on the night of Feb.1, just 12 hours after the loss of Columbia and her crew of seven. What a surprise to learn that Steve Green (a Christian artist) was a close friend of Rick Husband’s, the astronaut who was selected to be captain for […]

Dr. Bill Bright Founder Campus Crusade

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

IPWGC.com UPDATE NEWSLETTER International Prayer Warriors General Center, USA, Inc. (I.P.W.G.C.) ****************************************** ::::: From IPWGC.com Headquarter in Orlando, FL, U.S.A ::::: To IPWGC Subcriber: ****************************************** Please keep our dear brother and his family in prayer as they prepare for his transition from this world to the next! Dr. Bill Bright.Founder – Campus Crusade for Christ […]

Reinhold Niebuhr: Moral Man And Immoral Society (1932)

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

(One of the 20th century’s Christian classics, in my view. Rowland). —————————————————————————- —- Matthew Berke —————————————————————————- —- Copyright (c) 2000 First Things 101 (March 2000): 41-42. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Reinhold Niebuhr achieved a singular stature among twentieth-century American theologians. The son of a German immigrant pastor, Niebuhr (1892-1971) was not a popular […]

Phil Berrigan: A Holy Outlaw

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The long funeral procession for Phil Berrigan moved slowly through the streets of the poor black parish in Baltimore where he had begun his priesthood. Some parents held young children by the hand, as they walked behind the flatbed truck that carried Phil’s coffin, which had been made by his son, Jerry, and was decorated […]

Correction To Gladys Aylward Article

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The biography of Gladys by Phyllis Thompson is called, “A London Sparrow”. It complements Burgess’s book, The Small Woman” by giving the insights of a former missionary knowing the “China field”. It also appears to contain personal knowledge of and contact with Gladys after the children were rescued, but Phyllis does not confirm this outright. […]

Bob Dylan’s Christian Music, 1979-81

By and others ⋅ August 25, 2003 ⋅ One comment

a feature article by Jody Beth Rosen Scientologist ties has now admitted that she might have misinterpreted Beck’s statements in his recent interview with her. For continuity’s sake, I’ll leave the article below as it was written, but please read the opening paragraphs with this development in mind. The news that Beck has joined the […]

Wisps Of Wildfire (Introduction – F W Boreham)

By and others ⋅ August 25, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION Just as dusk was falling, I came, one summer evening, on a circular clearing in the bush, over-grown with heath and hyacinths, bracken and burrs. On a bare branch of a giant bluegum, a pair of jackasses were laughing to their hearts’ content. Beside a fireplace that he had fashioned of […]

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