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New Book on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
ISBN 1 875258 88 4 A Christian Apocalypse: The Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church 1984–2004 Table of Contents: Part 1 Foreword, Celibacy practice, third millennium; ‘High Noon in Boston’ The Crisis Time-Line; Catastrophe to Action; Sexual Network/Sexual Underworld; The Dynamo of Reform; The Celebrity Molester; Lay Collusion in sexual abuse; Community and Zero […]
Creative Art And The Art Of Supervision
One small step: creative art and the art of supervision Colin J. Hunter This paper forms the basis of a lecture delivered at the Melbourne College of Divinity 2004 Residential School which had the theme ‘Harvesting Wisdom For Reflective Practice’. It may be viewed at: http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/chunter/web/creativeart.html Preamble Art has always held a certain mystique, even […]
Father of Deconstructionism Dies, If ‘Death’ Means Anything
(2004-10-10) — French President Jacques Chirac announced today that Jacques Derrida, the father of the intellectual movement called deconstructionism, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, “if indeed ‘death’ can be said to mean anything beyond the biases of culture, language, religion and philosophy.” “Of course, we can’t assert anything positively about Monsieur Derrida’s recent failure to […]
Breaking The Da Vinci Code
So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real. By Collin Hansen | posted 11/07/2003 Perhaps you’ve heard of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller has captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 32 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller […]
My Best Books (a list by a theologically liberal friend)
Note: A theologically liberal offers this valuable list, from his liberal theological stance. My ‘progressive evangelical’ list can be located at http://jmm.org.au/articles/8073.htm Rowland. MY BEST BOOKS What would you say are the 100 essential books a literate Christian should read? My list (… these are not referenced properly but you should be able to get […]
Beyond the Baptist boycott
This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 08/18/2004 It was a cheesy ad slogan sure to raise eyebrows during the summer battle for the teen-movie bucks — “Got Passion? Get Saved!” An acidic take on a Christian high school, “Saved!” was crafted to make evangelicals punch their boycott buttons. It featured clean […]
Books on Worship (more)
Rowland Croucher wrote: Nathan: does the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship have daily – morning and evening – prayers? If it does, I’ll get it! Yes it does. The table of contents looks as follows: – Preparation for Worship (16 pages) – The Service of the Lord’s Day (132 pages of resources) – Resources for […]
Books on Worship
Rowland Croucher wrote: Best Prayer Book? Either the New Zealand or Australian Anglican Prayer Books. They both have morning and evening prayers for each day, and I think are brilliant! Nathan responded: Thanks for a great list, Rowland. Probably the only point where I’d disagree with you is on the best prayer book. The NZPB […]
Book Review: The Shaping of Things to Come
THE SHAPING OF THINGS TO COME I’ve just read two excellent books about the contemporary church. One of them was Eddie Gibbs’ Church Next.’ Eddie has radically revised the church growth paradigm (‘church on steroids’ as someone has described that movement). The other: ‘The Shape of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st […]
The Passion of the Christ
One person wrote: Found a very interesting and informative article on this movie at: http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/thepassion/questions/index.html It answers some of the basic questions about the movie, and some of the questions that may arise from watching the movie. Another responded: I’d take issue with several of its assertions, but I note with approval that it steers […]
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