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Healthy New Testament Churches?
We would all love to know the answers to questions such as: ¢â‚¬ËœWhat is the New Testament model for church leadership (or ministry structure, or conflict resolution, or mission, or worship, or . . .)? ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœWhat are the New Testament principles for healthy church life (or for mediating divisions, or planting new churches, or . . .)? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Or perhaps: […]
Catholic Priesthood Damned
CATHOLIC clergy commit six times as much abuse as those in the rest of the churches combined, ”and that’s a conservative figure”, a child protection expert says. Patrick Parkinson, a Sydney University law professor, told the state inquiry into how the churches handle sex abuse yesterday that the figures for the Catholic Church were strikingly […]
PORTRAIT OF A NO HOPE WELFARE BLUDGER
From a friend/prophet: Various churches have had a rich history of involvement & solidarity with residents & workers of Melbourne’s inner urban & industrial areas. The post War years of the ‘ 60s & 70s saw innovative & creative streetwork, mutual empowerment of residents & workers & ministers, ecumenical cooperation & trust, & high rise ‘parishes’ […]
The Vatican’s very own revolution
By Barney Zwartz Sept. 11, 2012 ON JANUARY 25, 1959, the newly elected Pope John XXIII invited 18 cardinals from the Vatican bureaucracy to attend a service at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. He told them he planned to summon a global church council. The horrified cardinals were speechless, which […]
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP NOT A FIX ALL by Robert Dilday, Managing editor of the Religious Herald a magazine published in America. Editors note. The following article is not published as being necessarily reflective of the views of the Australian Prayer Network but as an article of interest to encourage contemplation on the nature and relevance of the […]
WHEN CHURCH IS EASY: WHEN CHURCH IS HARD (Psalm 84, John 6:56-69)
(Rough notes for a sermon to be preached this Sunday – 26th August 2012 – at St Martin’s Community Church, Collingwood, Melbourne – an amazingly inclusive congregation, founded a couple of decades ago by John Smith/ God’s Squad). First: my preaching/handout notes: St Martin’s Collingwood, Melbourne : WHEN CHURCH IS EASY / HARD. 1.Psalm 84 is a […]
Secret tape reveals church shied from reporting abuse
Date August 18, 2012 Richard Baker and Rory Callinan Abuse victim Peter Murphy says he asked Father Brian Gallagher to report Peter Chalk to the police in 1994. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones EXCLUSIVE A SECRET police bugging operation caught a senior Catholic figure on tape saying it was not up to him to report a paedophile priest […]
SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH?
Sightings 7/23/2012 Episcopal Church Adapting to Culture – Martin E. Marty Miracles do happen. They are happening recently in the media world on the church front. Critics are responding to recent attacks on the Episcopal Church. Inspired by reports of the obvious, that that church body has experienced very significant losses of membership and church attendance in […]
Worship: a short check-list
Some notes I took at a conference several years ago (I’ve forgotten who the speaker was). There are many other facets of corporate worship of course, but these few are thought-provoking: 1. Does worship affect us profoundly emotionally? (How is it that worshippers – in biblical times and since – sometimes ‘fall down’ to worship […]
Southern Baptist Decline
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 6/25/2012 Southern Baptist Decline — Martin E. Marty The two ¢â‚¬Å“big kids on the block ¢â‚¬ of American denominationalism are making front-page and prime-time news this early summer in ways which crowd out other stories of events and trends in most […]
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