Theology
The 20 most important sayings of Jesus
20 to 1 countdown…. The 20 most important sayings of Jesus This was hard to do! I have been studying Jesus and his teaching for many years…. And to reduce what we have on him to just 20 sayings… well… it is very subjective and a huge ask. It will be a countdown…. From the […]
Jesus, The Way
A sermon on John 14:6 by Nathan Nettleton, 28 April 2002 It used to be common to hear talk of the Australian ‘cultural cringe’. Cultural cringe is the feeling that although we are comfortable living our way, we’d be a bit embarrassed to have our way held up for comparison to other ways, because we’re […]
WOMEN TEACHING MEN THE BIBLE
BriefCACE Number 34, September 2006 WOMEN TEACHING MEN THE BIBLE: WHAT ¯ ¿ ½S THE PROBLEM? Graham A. Cole Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity International University Evangelical Divinity School (USA) I first became aware very early on in my Christian life that women ¯ ¿ ½s ministry in the presence of men was controversial. As a new Christian […]
Trinity Sunday (a liberal view)
June 3, 2007 A Trinity You Can Deal With By Harry T. Cook For reasons that escape me, the Episcopal Church still has Trinity Sunday in its liturgical calendar, with specially appointed readings and with the expectation that the clergy will regale their congregations with liberal doses of trinitarian theology, despite the impossibility of the […]
An Image of God
“An Image of God” When I was working with the peace movement in Germany, a Lutheran friend took me to a thirteenth-century Cistercian monastery. As we came into this old church, there on the wall was a picture that really expressed some truth about God and the Church. First, it’s a picture of the Father […]
Jesus Scholarship
From Rowland: an in-your-face response to Witherington about Jesus scholarship, from an erudite liberal Episcopalian priest… ~~~ May 27, 2007 What a Friend We Have in Jesus … By Harry T. Cook The title of this essay was my second reaction to reading the following from a recent Episcopal News Service dispatch: What Have They […]
Getting in the Spirit
(Sermon on Pentecost by a theologically liberal priest-scholar) May 27, 2007 By Harry T. Cook This day in the church’s calendar is known as “the Feast of Pentecost,” upon which, our tradition says, the unseen presence of the risen Christ fell upon the original apostolic community in the form of a mighty wind and flames […]
Rites of Passage and Baptism
How does a child in our culture make the difficult transition to adulthood? What rituals are available to assist young persons as they reach the important milestones in this evolution? What ways have we developed to initiate our youth into the overarching system of values and beliefs that guide our pathways in productive and wholesome […]
‘Worse than Hell’: Christopher Hitchens on the Religious Mind
The ‘Snake Oil’ of Religion Atheist Christopher Hitchens says that faith is a fairy tale–and that people who surrender their minds to it are ‘groveling, abandoned serfs.’ Read the Interview Quiz: Are You an Atheist or a Believer? Darwin & More Doubters | Famous Atheists of Today Religion Is the Best Thing We’ve Got Worse […]
Christianity Without Salvation
The legacy of the “Social Gospel”–100 years later. BY JOSEPH LOCONTE Wall Street Journal Friday, May 11, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT Within a few years of its publication in 1907, “Christianity and the Social Crisis” swept through America’s Protestant churches like a nor’easter, selling more than 50,000 copies to ministers and laypeople alike. In an […]
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