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THREE WAYS TO READ THE BIBLE
The three books reviewed here are excellent examples of how one branch of the Christian church reads its sacred book – the Bible – and may be ignorant of other ways of approaching the Scriptures. The Evangelical/Holiness method is practised during one’s daily ‘Quiet Time’ (in what Catholics have traditionally termed the ‘oratory’) where one […]
A Bunch of Laughs
Ventriloquist and the Blonde A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he’s doing a show at the Crown Casino. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blond jokes when a blond woman in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting! “I’ve heard enough […]
Jottings from Marcus Borg (The God We Never Knew)
* ‘Because I see myself as a nonspecialist, I do not see this book as a scholarly discussion of God but as an accessible exposition of some quite general insights about the importance of how we think about God’ (vii) * God to Moses: ‘I am who I am’. Martin Buber: the Hebrew verb ehyeh […]
Interview with Rowland Croucher
(This interview with Rev. Mark Tronson, Well-Being Australia/ Christiantoday, happened last week, and Google alerts are telling me it’s being sprayed around the Internet! 3/11/2010) Rowland Croucher: analyst on Christianity Well-Being Australia http://au.christiantoday.com/ November 1, 2010 Rowland Croucher, perhaps Australia’s leading theological analyst who founded John Mark Ministries, with the largest ministry web site in […]
Jesus Seminar: pros and cons
Note from Rowland (October 2010): I’m on a writing retreat, and ploughing/plowing through a folder of print-outs on the JS. Here’s a miscellany of ideas to get you thinking. Although the JS has been termed ‘the greatest academic hoax since he Piltdown man’ (Jacob Neusner, cited by Richard N. Ostling, “Jesus Christ, Plain and Simple,” […]
ADDRESS TO OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (Father Frank Brennan)
Game on for Parliament FRANK BRENNAN SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 It seems almost an eternity ago that we heard those words, ‘Game on’. We congratulate those who have been re-elected to the Parliament. We express our prayerful best wishes to those elected for the first time, including Australia’s first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives. […]
DID THE RESURRECTION HAPPEN?
Did the Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (IVP 2009). Here is a transcript of the third of three debates between Gary Habermas and Antony Flew – and it’s one of the most irenic discussions on this theme – and about broader subjects like the existence of God, predestination, evil etc. […]
The Naked Now (Richard Rohr) (2) The Dualistic vs Non-Dualistic Minds
Here are some generalizations from Richard Rohr’s book The Naked Now. Of course generalizations invoke ‘yes but’ retorts. Rohr deals with these – adequately in my view – in the book, but here I’m simply compressing the whole thing into ‘headlines’. Read his book for the whole story, and don’t be put off by these […]
Richard Rohr: ‘both-and’
(From The Naked Now, 2009). First, read this overview of Richard’s book: Here are some notes I scribbled on this concept (I’ve included some page-numbers, but sorry, I don’t have a copy of Richard’s book in front of me right now for the others). Then his brilliant little Appendix “AND”… * Stop thinking about this […]
Richard Rohr: The Naked Now (1)
The Gist of Richard Rohr’s The Naked Now: Learning to See How the Mystics See (2009) ‘There are two trees in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ (Genesis 2:9). Here are some notes I took while reading Franciscan Richard Rohr’s latest book. […]
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