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Father Greg Reynolds – defrocked and excommunicated…
(Note: I had an enjoyable hour’s conversation with this good man. Can someone please explain how an ordained priest who champions women’s equality in the church can be both excommunicated and defrocked, whereas those who’ve raped children maybe defrocked, but not excommunicated!!!??? Rowland). ~~ The outsider Date November 9, 2013 Excommunicated ¢â‚¬ ¦ defrocked former priest […]
Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America?
July 12, 2013 Posted by: Robert De Filippis ¢â‚¬Å“The deconstruction of Christianity is not an attack on the church but a critique of the idols to which it is vulnerable ¢â‚¬“ the literalism and authoritarianism, the sexism and racism, the militarism, and the love of unrestrained capitalism with which the church in its various forms has […]
Tribute to a Catholic Priest (by a Presbyterian)
FATHER PROTECTOR Kevin Dillon was stopped at traffic lights a couple of years ago when a passing pedestrian peered in the car window at the gold crosses on his collar, recognised him as a priest, and said: “Oh, off to molest a few children, are we?” 13 Jul 2013 THE AGE – BY BARNEY ZWARTZ Kevin […]
Moody Bible Institute Drops Its Alcohol Ban
In Surprise Move, Evangelical Moody Bible Institute Drops Its Alcohol Ban by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 14 2013 The Moody Bible Institute made national news last week when it dropped the ban on drinking of wine on the part of faculty members and staff. Born on Dwight L. Moody ¢â‚¬â„¢s birthday, able to keep […]
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
Date September 15, 2013 Peter Craven POPE FRANCIS: UNTYING THE KNOTS Paul Vallely Bloomsbury, $25 Not much in the extraordinary history of the Church has been weirder than the election of Pope Francis six months ago. For a start, it followed in the wake of Pope Benedict’s all-but-unheard-of abdication. Then we were greeted with […]
PERFECTIONISM AND MINISTRY
Alan E. Craddock, Driven to Despair: Perfectionism and Ministry, Mosaic Press, 2013. Perfectionism isn ¢â‚¬â„¢t funny. When I put the words perfection humor into Google I had a hard time finding anything humorous. Instead: ¢â‚¬Å“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order ¢â‚¬ (Anne Wilson Schaef). ¢â‚¬Å“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets […]
Orphanage Hell (this time, Anglican)
THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN MAGAZINE Ron Green and his fellow orphanage kids revisit their childhood hell BY:TRENT DALTON From:The Australian July 27, 2013 From left: Eric Barnes, Ron Green and Keith Grosser. Pictures: Brendan Read. < Prev 1 of 3 Next > IT’S hard to say what makes someone embark on a journey they know leads to pain […]
A day that changed my life
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Can you think of a time when someone has been brutally honest and vulnerable about themselves and it ¢â‚¬â„¢s taken you by surprise? For me it happened about 20 years ago at a church I had just started attending. As I remember it, the person leading the service that day […]
Pastors Can Be Friends with Church Members (and 4 Other Radical Ideas)
Pastors Can Be Friends with Church Members (and 4 Other Radical Ideas) Victor Hugo wrote, ¢â‚¬Å“One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ¢â‚¬ If that were true in the 1870s, how much more accurate is it now! We are an influenced people. Television, radio, newspaper, the Internet […]
(Some) Churches preach social justice, but (in education) do they practise it?
Churches’ choice: self-interest or Gonski? Date June 29, 2013 James Boyce Peter Garrett and Christopher Pine at the Southern Cross Catholic Vocational College in Burwood, Sydney, debate the funding of education in relation to the Gonski Report. Photo: Janie Barrett The future of the Gonski education reforms is now in the hands of Liberal premiers and […]
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