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The Billy Graham team remembers…
An Evening to Remember What the Graham team continues to communicate with or without words Gordon MacDonald | posted 5/24/2010 A few days ago I journeyed to The Cove – the Billy Graham Training Center in Asheville, North Carolina – to participate in a small two-day discussion between pastors and business leaders. After dinner on […]
10 Questions for Desmond Tutu
Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 After all you’ve seen and endured, are you really as optimistic as your book, Made for Goodness, says you are? Zelalem Dawit, ADDIS ABABA I’m not optimistic, no. I’m quite different. I’m hopeful. I am a prisoner of hope. In the world, you have very bad people–Hitler, Idi Amin–and they look […]
F W Boreham: Angels, Palms and Fragrant Flowers
F W Boreham: Angels, Palms and Fragrant Flowers (F W Boreham on Spurgeon), John Broadbanks Publishing, 2009. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was probably heard by more people in the second half of the 19th Century than any other English-speaking preacher. (Another Baptist preacher – Billy Graham – is said to have been heard in face-to-face […]
Interview With Mary Daly
THE THIN THREAD OF CONVERSATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH MARY DALY by Catherine Madsen Daly imagines the overthrow of patriarchy by women’s psychic powers. No doubt the end justifies the means, but can it work? CATHERINE MADSEN is a contributing editor to Cross Currents. Perhaps a certain amount of disclosure is needed. I am, if not […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison
An online friend offers quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Letters and Papers from Prison” (SCM:1953) … my suspicion and horror of religiosity are greater than ever. p. 44 By the way it is remarkable how little I miss going to church. I wonder why. p. 54 I am sure that in view of all the misery […]
Esther Chavez – a special lady
Esther Chavez dies at 76; activist decried murders of women in Ciudad Juarez Chavez drew attention to the 1990s killings of several hundred women, which were largely ignored by Mexican authorities, and founded her region’s first rape crisis center. OBITUARIES December 27, 2009|By Tracy Wilkinson Jose Luis Magana / For The Times Reporting from Mexico […]
Obama’s law: what it tells us
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON June 28, 2008 Barack Obama, whose first presidency was at Harvard, turned his back on a lucrative legal career. Instead, he championed the poor – and the rule of law itself. IF BARACK Obama is elected president of the United States, it will be the result of another presidential election back in February […]
Mary Daly, radical feminist theologian, dead at 81
She helped reshape Christian thought through decades Jan. 04, 2010 By Thomas C. Fox Mary Daly, radical feminist theologian and a mother of modern feminist theology, died Jan. 3 at the age of 81. She was one of the most influential voices of the radical feminist movement through the later 20th century. Daly taught courses […]
Mary, Quite Contrary (Mary Daly)
Mary, Quite Contrary By Ann Powers Published: November 7, 1999 MARY DALY RECLINED ON THE LAWN of her lakeside condominium and pondered what a tree might reveal about ”radical elemental feminism.” Professor Daly, a 70-year-old pioneer of the women’s movement, was explaining how that term, which appears in the subtitle of her seventh and most […]
Edward Schillebeeckx
Grace-Optimism “Extra mundum nulla salus—There is no salvation outside the world.†That was the final message of Edward Schillebeeckx, O.P., to his theological colleagues at a symposium held in his honor in Leuven, Belgium, in December 2008. That conviction captures the love of the world and the “grace-optimism†that characterized the life’s work of this […]
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