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Warning about The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass, a PG-rated movie directed by Chris Weitz and based on a book by Philip Pullman titled Northern Lights, opens in Australia on 26 December. Billed as an exciting fantasy adventure, the film has generated significant concern over its defiantly anti-Christian message. The author sides with evil, championing deceit and self-will in a […]
Good Marginal Thinking
The heroes of church history began as reflective Christians who doubted what everyone else took for granted by Brian McLaren Your skin color can make you marginal in some settings. Your level of income or education can do it in others. Your worship style or theological persuasion or political party can put you at or […]
Planets pointed to Bethlehem
December 24, 2007 12:00am IT’S long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now an American professor thinks he has it figured out. His quest: discovering what was “the star in the East” that led wise men to Bethlehem. Indiana theoretical astrophysicist Grant Mathews studied NASA databases to come up with his theory. He found […]
Transfiguration (john Dear)
Review: Transfiguration: A Meditation on Transforming Ourselves and Our World, by John Dear (Doubleday 2007) Jesuit priest, retreat leader, writer and peace activist John Dear is running with the baton handed on by the Berrigan Brothers. (He spent at least one session in jail with one of them). Which means that he’s prepared to do […]
Science and Soul (Charles Birch)
Charles Birch – Science and Soul At 89, the venerable Australian biologist, ecologist and theologian Charles Birch has written a new book, Science and Soul, a memoir in which he looks back with gratitude to the long list of world-famous scientists and philosophers of religion who have influenced his work – Theodosius Dobzhansky, J.B.S.Haldane, Paul […]
Athol Gill
Review: A Gentle Bunyip: the Athol Gill Story, by Harold Pidwell (Seaview Press, 2007). Athol Gill was arguably Australia’s highest-profile Baptist New Testament scholar. When he died in 1992 from a massive heart attack at the young age of 54, memorial services were held in his honour at the Community Church of St. Mark (Clifton […]
Sermon on Christmas by R L Stevenson
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The Golden Compass and dark material
Are Christians overreacting by sending warning emails and boycotting the film?
Where Does The Golden Compass Point?
Here’s the good news: The Golden Compass does not promote atheism. It isn’t going to steal your children. It does not signal the end of hope for religion in the West. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news: it promotes the same, shallow “don’t touch my stuff or I’ll kill you” message that appears […]
On *The Golden Compass*
*Sightings* 11/19/07 — Martin E. Marty How can *Sightings * fail to sight a feature in the December *Atlantic, *by Hanna Rosin, which bears headlines and subheads like these: “How Hollywood Saved God,” “It took five years, two screenwriters, and $180 million to turn a best-selling anti-religious children’s book into a star-studded epic—just in time […]
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