Theology
Thorvald Lorenzen, Toward a Culture of Freedom: Reflections on the Ten Commandments Today
Thorvald Lorenzen, Toward a Culture of Freedom: Reflections on the Ten Commandments Today May 19, 2008 http://jmm.org.au/articles/21230.htm Thorvald Lorenzen, Toward a Culture of Freedom: Reflections on the Ten Commandments Today (Cascade Books, 2008). Thorvald Lorenzen, currently Professor of Theology at Charles Sturt University, is one of Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s most gifted theologians. His other books include Resurrection […]
Manifesto (Martin Marty)
*Sightings* 5/12/08 Manifesto — Martin E. Marty A week from Sunday we will join millions of worshipers in many lands and churches in dusting off the ancient church’s Athanasian Creed in a Trinity Sunday ritual. As a boy I would join in confessing incomprehensibly that “the Father [is] incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy […]
A Protestant Protests again Roman Catholicism
*Guest Editorial: Roman Catholic World Youth Day * Protestantism is a protest. Our protest is against the enormity of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. Some people are born as Protestants. They are anti Roman Catholic because of their own tribal roots. They have no belief other than Roman Catholics are wrong. But Protestantism […]
Four Views on Hell
Questioner, to Billy Graham on his last visit to Harvard: ‘Since Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by me” doesn’t that mean people from other religions – Jews and the rest – are going to hell?’ Billy replied,’I’m sure glad God is the […]
Today’s Evangelicals are concerned with ecology
Today ¢â‚¬â„¢s Evangelicals are as concerned with ecology and human rights as with personal morality Bernice Martin As the second Iraq War turned from a quick liberation into a bloodily contested occupation, long-standing liberal fears about the supposed theocratic ambitions of a reactionary American Evangelicalism were supplemented by suspicions of an apocalyptic fanaticism infecting the White […]
Heaven and Hell
Clare: I seem to sit somewhere among the third or fourth groups, though I’m not quite sure which! **** Rowland Croucher wrote: 3. The third group – I’ll call them *progressive* Christians – believe that yes, there is a hell, but we mustn’t take literalistic black and white (or cold/hot) categories of existence into the […]
Hell (George Carlin, in Dawkins’ The God Delusion)
The preface to Dawkins’ The God Delusion chapter 8: ‘What’s wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?’ (p. 279). “Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man – living in the sky – who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten […]
Damned Prophets
The Religion Works May 4, 2008 To read this week’s sermon “Damned Prophets” just scroll down. I’m fed to the teeth and beyond with the white-dominated media juggernaut in this country and its print-lynching of the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright. Dr. Wright is a prophet in the finest biblical tradition – which is why he […]
Hell (a response by Billy Graham)
I read this today in Jim Wallis’ new book “Seven Ways to Change the World” and I can’t think of a better response: Questioner, to Billy Graham on his last visit to Harvard: ‘Since Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by me” doesn’t […]
The End of the Anglican Communion?
Venables predicts end of Anglican Communion ANNE FLETCHER Anglican Journal Apr 29, 2008 Delta, B.C. The South American primate who has welcomed dissenting Canadian Anglican parishes into his province says he sees the beginning of the end of the world-wide Anglican Communion. ¢â‚¬ËœI believe we ¢â‚¬â„¢re in the early stages of divorce, ¢â‚¬â„¢ Archbishop Gregory Venables, […]
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