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Harry welcomed into church
Michelle Pauli Thursday August 2, 2007 Guardian Unlimited It’s been a couple of weeks since the record-breaking publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and while most of the familiar elements – midnight queues, speed-reading reviewers, claims that JK Rowling can’t write for toffee – were present and correct, one thing seemed to be […]
Movies and Christians (two more contributions)
[1] I reckon “The Matrix” (the first episode) provides a good presentation of the Gospel. And “The Mission” presents several important themes – sacrifice, redemption, Christian responses to injustice/violence. Then, of course, there’s the powerful message on grace in Les Miserables. [2] Matrix would be one of the best movies for a long time. Some […]
Book Review: Against Religion (Tamas Pataki)
Against Religion, (2007) by Tamas Pataki Scribe Publications At least four quite provocative/notorious (notorious for religionists anyway) anti-theist books have been published in the last two years. The best known is The God Delusion, in which Richard Dawkins argues that belief in God is both delusional and pernicious: ‘Any God capable of designing a universe, […]
Ten Movies Every Christian Should See
Lenny Esposito’s 10 films every Christian should see (due to their covert to overt Christian themes): — Ten Movies Every Christian Should See But Probably Hasn’t by Lenny Esposito [source unknown] Many people I’ve spoken with bemoan the state of Hollywood and the poor entertainment choices out there. However there are a good number of […]
Movie Review: Crude Awakening
Movie Review Crude Awakening. By Jim Reiher “Oil is the excrement of the devil”. So began the documentary that looks at the world’s dwindling oil supplies, the nature of modern warfare, and the future for a world that has an insatiable appetite for more and more oil, and a declining supply of the same. As […]
The Great Global Warming Swindle
The film “The great global warming Swindle” is to be aired on the ABC at 8:30pm on the 12th of July, 2007. This film was first aired on Channel 4 in Britain several months ago and attracted a great deal of controversy due to its claims that global warming is not caused by human activities, […]
Australian Religion
Gary Bouma, Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Professor Gary Bouma, an ordained Anglican priest, is head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. He’s one of Australia’s leading sociologists of religion, and excellently equipped to survey the Australian religious scene. Australians are more […]
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Two lonely figures traverse a ruined, anarchic, desolate America where few survivors remain after a cataclysmic event that causes the cities to burn and turns the air into ash. A father and his young son are travelling on foot, scavenging food and with only a pistol as protection, they try desperately to reach the coast […]
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [3]
More from Brian McLaren’s ‘A Generous Orthodoxy’: 14. WHY I AM METHODIST The Protestants –  Luther and Calvin –  created intellectual systems. But nobody before the Methodists seriously developed a system of spiritual formation to replace the Catholic system of spirituality. They did for spiritual formation what Luther and Calvin did for doctrine (the latter […]
The Gist of Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy [1]
Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (2004) Brian McLaren is probably today’s most widely-read ‘progressive evangelical’. Surprisingly he’s never attended classes for credit in a theological institution, nor has any ordination qualifications from a bona fide denomination. ‘Rather I am a lowly English major who snuck into pastoral ministry accidentally through the back doors of the […]
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