Missions
Catholics and Jews
The Catholic Church officially no longer tries to convert Jews to Christianity, according to Cardinal Edward Cassidy, the Australian who became the third-highest prelate in the Vatican. Addressing a mostly Jewish audience of several hundred at the Holocaust Centre in Elsternwick on Tuesday night, Cardinal Cassidy said the Vatican II council of the 1960s ended […]
The Mission
IT’S ABOUT THE MISSION Our mission: “Every Church challenged and equipped to grow more disciples of Jesus Christ by taking risks and changing lives.” Tom Bandy, in his new book, stresses that we must keep the mission of the church ever before us, that the mission gives significance to our work as church leaders, and […]
How would you answer this?
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A Bigger and Smaller View of Mission
Books & Culture, May/June 2007 CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT A Bigger-and Smaller-View of Mission by John G. Stackhouse, Jr. From his base at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, from whence he occasionally looks askance at what’s happening in the neighboring land south of the Canadian border, John Stackhouse defies the notion that there is any […]
Outreach Resources
[Here’s a conservative evangelical list of good recent resources (you’ll notice that nothing of progressive evangelical Brian McLaren’s is mentioned… Rowland]. You loved them, we loved them. Now it?s time to give these outstanding resources of 2006 another look and a round of applause. By Tamara Rice Nothing feels better to us, as editors of […]
Faith in Australia
15-Mar-07 Dear Friends, Our apologies if you have already received this edition of ‘Faith and Community’. We experienced some techincal difficulties which may have led to some duplication. Welcome to another edition of ‘Faith and Community’ – EA’s free digest of recent writing on public theology and issues of interest to Australian Christians. In this […]
Muslim Conversions to Christianity
ISLAM IN EASTERN LANDS LOSES MILLIONS: Record Number of Ex-Muslims celebrated Christmas last Year. More Muslims converted to faith in Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any other time in human history. A spiritual revolution is underway throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. As a result, a record number of […]
Out of the Echo Chamber (Brian McLaren)
Out of the Echo Chamber From Brian McLaren As many of you will know from my website (brianmclaren.net), my recent contribution to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope , and my speaking, I’ve been traveling like crazy over the last couple of years, especially this last year during which nearly all the pages in my passport […]
Jesus walks into a bar
April 7, 2007 ‘JESUS asked his mates to stay with him, but they got pissed and fell asleep, the bloody bastards.” As an account of the disciples’ failure in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before Jesus was cruci fied, it may lack the poetry and majesty of the King James Bible. But the 22 […]
Growing numbers reject the institutional church but want to follow its founder, Jesus Christ
Growing numbers reject the institutional church but want to follow its founder, Jesus Christ. Looking for Jesus: refugees in faith http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/looking-for-jesus-refugees-in-faith/2007/04/05/1175366408417.html?page=fullpage# Barney Zwartz April 6, 2007 “JESUS asked his mates to stay with him, but they got pissed and fell asleep, the bastards.” As an account of the disciples’ failure in the Garden of Gethsemane […]
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