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Joshua (Joseph Girzone)

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-071 (Film/Book Review) ‘JOSHUA’ KEEPS ON PREACHING by Terry Mattingly The doctor’s verdict was blunt and he didn’t want to quibble about details. The patient’s heart and blood were in terrible shape. He was working too hard and the stress was about to kill him. The doctor said he should quit his […]

Richard Rohr Tapes

Note from Rowland Croucher These are the best teaching-tapes in the English language!!! ~~~ The CAC is pleased to make available the following books and tapes. (You may also print this list.) Please print out a copy of the order form, complete it and send it to the CAC along with your payment in U.S. […]

Harvey Cox, Common Prayers

Reviews In the Court of the Gentiles by Duane Shank Book Review: Harvey Cox, Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and the Christian’s Journey Through the Jewish Year (Houghton Mifflin: 2002). Sojourners March 2002 Jewish-Christian “dialogue” is too often just that-an intellectual, theological discussion with no grounding in shared experience. Common Prayers is Jewish-Christian dialogue grounded in […]

Reasons Of The Heart (Bishop Bruce Wilson)

Bishop Bruce Wilson. Allen and Unwin and Albatross Books. 1998. Rev Peter Breen. Senior Pastor, Everton Hills Wesleyan Methodist Church, Brisbane. How many people have done much about “a vision for the new millennium” – seriously? Hype and personal success agendas with bridges or games or yet another desperate national identity crisis [the Federation centenary] […]

Annie Dillard, For The Time Being

Reviews In the Face of Brutality Annie Dillard’s unsentimental view of God in the world. Ray Kelleher Book Review: Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (Knopf: 1999). Four-fifths of the way through her new book, For the Time Being, Annie Dillard confesses, “I don’t know beans about God.” Up until then she nestles her theology […]

Harry Potter (By An Ex-Witch)

I am writing this urgent message because I was once a witch. I lived by the stars as an astrologer and numerologist casting horoscopes and spells. I lived in the mysterious and shadowy realm of the occult. By means of spells and magic, I was able to invoke the powers of the “controlling unknown” and […]

Harry Potter… More

On 21 Nov 2001 21:00:07 +1100, (Andrew Bromage) wrote: >G’day all. > >Malcolm Purvis writes: > >>I take it, then, that C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series is right out as well. > >So is The Lord of the Rings, when it comes out later this year. > >Oh, and Macbeth, while I think of it. […]

William Faulkner’s Speech Of Acceptance

William Faulkner’s Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred fifty I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work-a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for […]

My Word Attic

My Word Attic Updated Monday, July 30, 2001 Isn’t the Web a wonderful place to keep stuff? Who needs an attic? This is my word attic. Here I put words I don’t know what to do with. Can’t throw them away. Sometimes I have no idea who wrote them. If you know, lemmeknow . “Hay […]

Jung

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of a living soul. Carl Jung