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John Stott
From a friend: Reading your comments about John Stott reminds me of having heard him speak on the Gospel and the Church back in 1973 At the University of Papua New Guinea. John having finished his talk, invited questions from the audience. One of the nationals asked him a question and John, said ” You […]
Martin Luther King – An Unforgettable Fire
‘Sleep, sleep tonight And may your dreams be realised’ ‘MLK’ by U2 On April 4, many people around the world, and in the south of the United States in particular, will observe the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King. When I first began to explore Dr King’s life in my late teens, […]
Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
Europe – Vatican – Christianity – General “Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian” http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=28051&con=56&sec=56 By Malcolm Moore (“Telegraph”, March 19. 2008) Rome, Italy – Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St […]
Larry Norman
He combined the rhythms of Elvis and the words of Christ to create Jesus Rock Steve Turner Wednesday February 27, 2008 The Guardian Larry Norman, who has died at the age of 61, was a pioneer of what became known as Jesus Rock, which combined the rhythms of rock’n’roll with the social and spiritual observations […]
Larry Norman Dies
MESSAGE FROM SOLID ROCK Hello everybody. Our friend and my wonderful brother Larry passed away at 2:45 Sunday morning. Kristin and I were with him, holding his hands and sitting in bed with him when his heart finally slowed to a stop. We spent this past week laughing, singing, and praying with him, and all […]
Befriending Life: Encounters With Henri Nouwen
Befriending Life: Encounters With Henri Nouwen. Edited by Beth Porter, with Susan Brown and Philip Coulter. Double-day, 275 pp., $21.95. HIS PRIMARY expectation was that you keep your heart open to life,” writes Fred Bratman of his friend Henri Nouwen. That Bratman, who is a marketing executive at a New York investment bank and Jewish, […]
Mother Teresa’s Agony
–Martin E. Marty Once when Mormon origins were being radically questioned by a man who turned out to be a forger, I asked Jan Shipps, foremost Gentile scholar of Latter-Day Saints, what if the publicized fake documents turned out to be authentic? Wouldn’t such shaking of the foundations bring down the whole edifice? No, she […]
Madonna: I’m an ‘Ambassador for Judaism’
Sep 16 08:12 PM US/Eastern By STEVE WEIZMAN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) – Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an “ambassador for Judaism,” local newspapers reported Sunday. The singer, who is not Jewish, arrived in Israel Wednesday on the eve of Jewish new year to attend […]
Pastor Doug Nicholls: A Skeleton In The Church
Aboriginal people are “the skeleton in the cupboard of Australia’s national lifeâ€, and “outcasts in our own landâ€, said Aboriginal Churches of Christ pastor, Doug Nicholls in a passionate and angry speech in 1938. Later this month, the Victorian Churches of Christ will celebrate the ministry of Nicholls, with an unveiling of his portrait. Nicholls […]
D. James Kennedy
D. James Kennedy, minister of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida, USA, and known to many as the originator of the “Evangelism Explosion” method of training people in evangelism, has died. I visited this church for a conference back in the 70s, and don’t remember much about the conference there (on evangelism, you guessed […]
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