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When Life Tumbles In – What Then? (A resurrection sermon)

By and others ⋅ March 30, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When life Tumbles In What Then? A sermon by Rowland Croucher at St Martins’ Community   Church Resurrection Sunday – 31 March 2013 Lectionary Readings:   Acts 10:34-43  or  Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26  or  Acts 10:34-43, John 20:1-18  or  Luke 24:1-12 First I want to pay a tribute to our dear friend Damien Christie whose life we remember with […]

Pope and Nones

By and others ⋅ March 19, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings Monday |   March 18 2013 Pope and Nones by Martin E. Marty  ¢â‚¬Å“It behooves us to keep talking about the papal election for as long as possible. Once it ¢â‚¬â„¢s over, we ¢â‚¬â„¢re back to the federal budget deliberations, and I prefer a story in which nothing gets sequestered but the cardinals. ¢â‚¬  Thus columnist Gail Collins […]

Catholic Church bedevilled by ‘turbulent waters’

By and others ⋅ March 5, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

A poisoned chalice awaits the new leader of a Catholic Church bedevilled by ‘turbulent waters’ Date March 2, 2013 Barney Zwartz, Religion Editor, Rome Crowds gather in St Peter’s Square ahead of Pope Benidict XVI’s final audience last week.  Photo: AFP THE great baroque builder Bernini produced many masterpieces in Rome, but none exceeds the twin […]

Is the Church Failing Young People?

By and others ⋅ February 19, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Posted on  February 18, 2013  by  Joel Rieves   Even though I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t work with youth anymore when I saw  ¢â‚¬Å“Youth Ministry  ¢â‚¬“ The Fifty Year Failed Experiment ¢â‚¬  by Fr. John Peck, I was intrigued. At some level, I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve always known there were problems in the church and five years of youth ministry showed me those problems weren ¢â‚¬â„¢t […]

Papacy of Benedict was fraught with problems

By and others ⋅ February 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

BY:ANGELA SHANAHAN From:The Australian   February 16, 2013  12:00AM IN a society where religion is often dismissed by the elites as irrelevant to public debate, the news that the Pope had resigned was not ignored by the hoi polloi. People have been talking about the papal abdication all week. Even the ABC thought the resignation of the […]

Catholic Schools

By and others ⋅ February 12, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings    2/11/2013 — Martin E. Marty In a bittersweet column in the  Wall Street Journal, Joe Queenan suggests that  ¢â‚¬Å“all sorts of iconic, useless institutions could be under siege; coleslaw, fedoras, ¢â‚¬  etc. Added to that headlined list were U.S. Savings Bonds, dachsunds, […]

Religion: what’s news?

By and others ⋅ February 5, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings    2/4/2013 Religion News: One Day — Martin E. Marty  ¢â‚¬Å“Public Religion ¢â‚¬  or  ¢â‚¬Å“Religion-in-Public, ¢â‚¬  our cause, appears in blogs, films, on TV and radio, and in zillions of sources which together dwarf the coverage in print media, our main source. Occasionally […]

Catholic Church apology after damning abuse report released

By and others ⋅ January 17, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By  Martin Cuddihy  and Stephanie Smail   The Catholic Church has unequivocally apologised for failing to protect its parishioners from the accused paedophile priest known as Father F. An independent report  by former Federal Court judge Antony Whitlam has been scathing of the way the church has dealt with the former priest. Justice Whitlam levels much of his […]

St Martins Collingwood: one church’s ‘health report’

By and others ⋅ December 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

JOHN MARK MINISTRIES Seminars, counseling & consulting services for pastors, ex-pastors, & church leaders Director: Rowland Croucher Email: [email protected]   Website:  http://jmm.org.au/   This report was commissioned by St. Martin ¢â‚¬â„¢s Church, Collingwood, Melbourne. Here’s an amended version of the congregational report (amended for public consumption without some of the  ¢â‚¬Ëœloving criticisms ¢â‚¬â„¢ I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve put in the original, which more […]

Church services any day now…

By and others ⋅ December 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

PASTOR:  Praise the Lord. CONGREGATION:  Hallelujah! PASTOR:  Can we please turn our Tablet PC, iPad, Cellphone, Kindle Bibles to 1 Cor. 13:13 ¢â‚¬ ¦.!  And please switch on your Bluetooth to download the sermon ¢â‚¬ ¦. ! PASTOR:  Let us pray committing this week into God ¢â‚¬â„¢s hands. Open your WhatsApp, BBM, Twitter and Facebook and chat with your God. Come on ¢â‚¬ ¦ PASTOR:  Please have your […]

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