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Mary Daly
From the Washington Post. Mary Daly’s ‘courage to sin big’ If there ever were a big sinner in the eyes of patriarchal religion, the honor of that title goes to Mary Daly. Mary Daly, “elemental feminist philosopher” and ground-breaking early feminist theologian, has died, but her ability to give women courage to name their experience […]
Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri Nouwen
Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri Nouwen by Michael Ford, 1999. Henri Nouwen, with Thomas Merton, were the first 20th century Catholic writers on Christian Spirituality to be widely read among non-Catholics. (And each of them was criticized for ‘never having an unpublished thought.’ ‘Like Merton’, says this biographer, [Nouwen] seemed to feel that, unless […]
Amazing painting – famous people
The painting itself is great but as you run your curser over the people it tells you who they are … BUT …. (click on a person) and you obtain their life history. Fascinating! CLICK HERE
50 People Every Christian Should Know
Ignatius Loyola used to be encouraged reading the lives of great Christians, remarking that since they were as human as he was he knew he could be as saintly as they were… In addition to Wiersbe’s book, (reviewed by my friend Bill Muelenberg below) two recent collections of biographies I’ve been reading in my devotions […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in New York
Over the past few days I had a delightful time reading Volume 10 of the new edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s works, Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928-1931 (Fortress 2008), 764 pp. – a remarkable collection of letters, sermons, essays and lectures from his time as a vicar in Spain, a postdoctoral student in Berlin, and a […]
A W Tozer
Aiden Wilson Tozer once said, “Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aid to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.†And that is certainly true of the great man himself. In the past week I have read two biographies of Tozer, and perused a dozen of his important books. What started all this […]
Rabbi Harold Vallins
Note from Rowland: I was privileged to know Harold Vallins – perhaps the only Jewish Rabbi in Australia to convert to Christianity. He invited me to speak a couple of times at the Brethren-affiliated retirement home where he lived, Grace Court. The last time I saw him was at the Vigil for Dawn Rowan (Google […]
Amazing Painting
The painting itself is great but as you run your curser over the people it tells you who they are … BUT …. (click on a person) and you obtain their life history. Fascinating! CLICK HERE Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Review: A. W. Tozer in Pursuit of God
Review: A. W. Tozer in Pursuit of God (James L. Snyder) (2009) There were two significant 20th century Evangelical pastors who taught about ‘spiritual theology’ from the classical saints and mystics. On one side of the Atlantic Britain’s Dr. W. E. Sangster – a Methodist – wrote Masters’ and PhD dissertions on ‘holiness’ and Christian […]
C.S. Lewis, Wartime and Britain
Britain has not always been a relative basket case. It was indeed a great nation not all that long ago. During the Second World War it produced gallantry, bravery and heroism. Not only leaders, such as Churchill, stood tall, but the common Brit, faced with huge challenges and dangers, managed to rise to the occasion. […]
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