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Stephen Crittenden: Welcome everyone, to The Religion Report. Today we’re picking up on the theme of individual conscience and the role of the churches in politics that we began exploring last week. In a moment we’ll be speaking to Labor’s Foreign Affairs spokesman, Kevin Rudd. He’s just written a 5,000-word piece for The Monthly magazine […]
Echoes of Horror
October 15, 2006 By Harry T. Cook My daughter, who celebrates her 24th birthday this weekend, was born 76 years and one day after Hannah Arendt. “Hannah†was one of the names we considered for my daughter at the time of her birth. Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her Eichmann in Jerusalem, in […]
Billy Graham is now 86 years old with Parkinson’s disease
Billy Graham is now 86 years old with Parkinson’s disease. In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favourite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honour. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, “We don’t expect a major address. Just […]
Frederick Buechner – Love Feast
from Frederick Buechner – “Love Feast” ( Chato & Windus; London:1975) p. 6 He said, “It’s like Christopher Columbus, Antonio. To discover the New World you have to scrap the Old.” p 60 The kingdom of God is a love feast where nobody’s a stranger. pp. 154 -155 I caught him by surprise. A Preacher […]
Brian McLaren: A Tribute to Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Brian McLaren: A Tribute to Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, Unlikely ‘Missionary’ Within hours of the Crocodile Hunter’s death on September 4, 2006, I started receiving sympathy emails from friends who knew that I was a big fan of Steve Irwin. They knew that I am one of those strange Irwinesque people […]
Simone Weil
“Anonymous Comments Header” wrote: “It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in God. He has only to refuse to believe in everything that is not God. . . . A man has only to persist in his refusal, and one day or another God will come to him.” —Simone Weil, On […]
Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
Friday, September 22, 2006 By Ian Morgan Cron. Published by Navpress. Reviewed by Lou Jacquet Every now and then, a book so unique comes along that it seems there are no conventional categories to put it in. Ian Morgan Cron’s first book, billed as “a creative and compelling hybrid of fiction, theology and historical biography,” […]
Jaroslav Pelikan
The following article is located at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2006/003/2.43.html Delighted by Doctrine Historian Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) thought theology was too important to be left to the theologians. by Timothy George When Jaroslav Pelikan died at age 82 on May 13, 2006, the world of Christian scholarship lost its greatest living advocate and the best church historian America […]
N T Wright biography
Nicholas Thomas Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland in 1948 and was raised in the context of middle Anglicanism. From before the age of seven or eight he already felt called to go into Christian ministry. Growing up, Wright had an interest in music and sports, interests that he retains to this day. He is […]
Interview with Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright
Posted: May 28, 2004 Interview with Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright of Durham, England May 21, 2004 By John L. Allen, Jr. Rome Anglican Bishop N.T. (Tom) Wright of Durham, England, is one of the world’s leading scholars on the New Testament, and especially on the letters of Paul. He is also a member of the […]
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