Apologetics
Why are Americans afraid to criticize Islam? (by a Muslim writer)
Losing my religion to Islamic radicals and Western progressives THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OCTOBER 29, 2014 LAST week a Canadian Muslim gunman went on a rampage in Ottawa, killing a soldier and storming into the parliament building before he was shot dead. Authorities have since said he had applied for a passport to travel to […]
Mysticism: in an Aboriginal Context
Headley Beare was a remarkable man – polymath, gifted teacher, educationalist, writer and communicator. From 1981 to 1995 he was a professor of education at Melbourne University. He believed that mystical awareness, insight and experience are available to all people, in all cultures and traditions, regardless of their theological/religious traditions. His book Dolphin’s Leap, Hind’s Feet […]
Pope Francis vs. Some of his Cardinals on Gay Issues
(Dr. Stuart Edser’s measured summary) (Check Search on this website for more of Dr. Edser’s excellent material) So, at the end of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, where exactly are we? The paragraph on gay people did not get through with a two thirds majority with the more pastoral language that welcomes gays and […]
Religion in America (Martin Marty October 2014)
Religion Unites or Divides by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 20 2014 Rally in Pensacola to support educators on trial in federal court for praying in school (2009) Image Credit: Cheryl Casey / shutterstock.com “ISIS CRISIS.†. . . “EBOLA CRISIS†. . . “ECONOMIC WORRIES†. . . Headlines about these and others […]
United Methodist (US) pastor presides over gay wedding: trouble!
‘This will become the new normal’ Author: Nick O’Malley Date: 11/10/2014 Source: AGE One pastor’s journey has brought his church to a watershed. It all began with the suffering of his gay son, writes Nick O’Malley. With a bland act of office administration last Monday morning, the United States Supreme Court changed the fabric of […]
Marilynne Robinson: Pulitzer Prize-Winner who writes ‘Christianly’
Marilynne Robinson’s Lila by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 13 2014 Marilynne Robinson in 2012 Image: Christian Scott Heine Bell / Wikimedia Commons “If you could create a phenomenology of consciousness, some part of it would be the systematic falsification of the foundations of our culture.†After that sentence in literary-critic-ese, Novelist Marilynne Robinson […]
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ – like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others – speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com – or you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook. These speakers share their […]
POT POURRI: worth pondering…
I’ll probably add a bunch of items-to-think-about regularly (from my reading/devotions etc.) A pot-pourri of items on this week’s pocket-list to ponder: Kierkegaard: Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards Yanis Varoufakis: A radical economist in the ’emperor has no clothes’ category. ‘The real purpose of right-wing politics is to […]
Acceptance, Repentance: subject/object relationships
If you put love-before-worth jmm into Google you’ll read three of my most controversial sermons! Excerpts: ~~ From a wedding homily at http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/33687.htm :   2. ACCEPTANCE. This is the basic idea in the Christian concept of ‘grace’. I am loved by God before I change, before I ‘deserve’ to be loved. This love-before-worth […]
Islam: reacting with *both* truth and love (Mark Durie)
1. Fear and the rhetoric of ‘unprecedented’ barbarity Posted: 26 Sep 2014 03:43 PM PDT By Mark Durie Many leaders have been stating that the Islamic State’s actions are ‘unprecedented’, ‘extreme’, ‘unique’, or even ‘eccentric’. Western leaders who are intervening in the Syria-Iraq conflict justify their actions by declaring the Islamic State to be uniquely […]
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