Books
Homosexuality: Two More Recent Publications…
Someone I Love is Gay: How Family and Friends Can Respond, by Anita Worthen , IVP, 1996; The Fall Upward: Spirituality in the Lives of Lesbian Women and Gay Men, NT: Little Gem Publications, 1996. Anita Worthen has a gay (HIV positive) son who is not a committed Christian. She and her husband Frank (a […]
Homosexuality And The Church
(Ed. Gordon S. Dicker) (Uniting Church Press, Melbourne) Reviewed by Rowland Croucher This 71-page report was commissioned by the Uniting Church in Australia. It was received in November 1984; congregations and other councils of the church are invited to offer their comments. Dr. Dicker’s committee will then submit a further report in 1986. Two urgent […]
Holy Spirit, Baptism
Book Review: Allan Norling, Jesus the Baptiser with the Holy Spirit, published by the author, (Box 219, Beecroft, Australia 2119), 1994. Debates about the Holy Spirit still rage (mainly in Western contexts: the rest of the world generally gets on with living the Christian life rather than debating about it). Seventy percent of all church […]
Homosexuality: A (Sydney) Anglican Approach
If you saw this quote cited with approval: ‘Homophobia is far more widespread than homosexuality. It is not recognized as a pathological condition so it is largely untreated and unconfessed. Yet those with gay feelings instantly detect it’ (Lance Pierson) followed by this exhortation: ‘Only when we have examined ourselves and repented of wrong attitudes […]
John Selby Spong
Book Review: John Shelby Spong, This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop’s Search for the Authentic Jesus, HarperSanFrancisco, new edition, 1993. Bishop Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark, USA, is perhaps today’s most widely-read liberal ‘theologian’. (Why the quotes? Many would not use this term for him). He’s earned the nickname ‘the re-thinking bishop’, from the subtitles of […]
Homosexuality
Someone I Love is Gay: How Family and Friends Can Respond, by Anita Worthen , IVP, 1996; The Fall Upward: Spirituality in the Lives of Lesbian Women and Gay Men, NT: Little Gem Publications, 1996. Anita Worthen has a gay (HIV positive) son who is not a committed Christian. She and her husband Frank (a […]
Trinity
Book Review Leon Uris, Corgi Books, 1985. Each annual holidays I try to read a well-researched historical novel. Reading ‘Trinity’ – sometimes acclaimed as Uris’ best book – was the highlight of a week in Bali (courtesy of a generous friend). (PS. There’s really no reason to go to Bali unless you’ve never experienced a […]
Jesus (book reviews etc.)
Can we rely on the Gospels’ accounts when they describe Jesus’ life and teaching? Here are three ‘posts’ I’ve sent to religious – and alt.atheism – newsgroups during 1995 on this question… Watch this homepage for my appraisal of John Dominic Crossan’s brilliant (though flawed) study of the life of Jesus (hopefully October/November 1995). Shalom! […]
How Churches got to be the way they are
by Gavin White (London: SCM Press), 1990. I bought this little (120 pp.) book when in London on a preaching/ seminar-trip. If you thought church history was boring, this will cure you. It’s a popular history of the church/es in the West and the USSR in the last couple of hundred years. Its style is racy and […]
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