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A N Wilson: Why I Believe Again
Why I believe again A N Wilson Published 02 April 2009 A N Wilson writes on how his conversion to atheism may have been similar to a road to Damascus experience but his return to faith has been slow and doubting Unlike his conversion to Atheism, Wilson’s path back to faith has been a slow […]
Crazy for God: An Interview with Frank Schaeffer
Interview Crazy for God An Interview with Frank Schaeffer By John W. Whitehead The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really were. In public, they maintained an image that was usually quite smooth. In private, they ranged from unreconstructed bigot reactionaries […]
The Dawn Rowan Vigil: A Retrospective
This is the first time – in 71 years of living, and about 40 years of stirring on social justice issues – that I’ve participated in a public protest. I’m not ‘that kind of person’, but this gross injustice has got me wound up. Being a clergyman, I’m generally treated with respect, sometimes with deference. […]
Dawn Rowan – article in The Age
This woman took on two governments and won, so why is she in debt and fearful of losing her house? * Barney Zwartz * April 10, 2009 [Dawn Rowan and the St Andrews home she may lose any day after 20 years THIS woman may lose this house and be thrust penniless onto the street […]
Billy Graham’s pretty faith was not enough
Geraldine Doogue | February 28, 2009 THE Go-Between, the novel by J.P. Hartley, begins with the famous line: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” How true this seemed, watching a recent Sunday night’s Compass program on ABC television. It reflected on the remarkable Billy Graham crusade that swept up Australian […]
Some Christians died, some miraculously survived in the Victorian Fires
CHRISTIANS DIE IN VICTORIAN FIRES – OTHERS TELL OF MIRCAULOUS SURVIVAL As the lists of those killed in the Victorian fires continues to increase, names of known Christians are becoming clearer. There may of course be others not yet identified, but these are those known at the time of publication of this article. Kim Cain, […]
John Updike: The Masterly Blasphemer
Note from Rowland: John Updike started to get the attention of literateurs just when I was finishing an undergraduate degree in English. I still remember being astonished at his mastery of the language… ***** The John Updike opus is so vast, so varied and rich that we will not have its full measure for years […]
Smith Wigglesworth
[Note from Rowland: I’ve read one or two books about this man – truly remarkable!] “The Apostle of Faith”* I saw that God wants us so badly that He has made the condition as simple as He possibly could-“Only Believe.” It is arguable that there is no more significant patriarch of the Pentecostal Movement than […]
Barack Obama
Talk about a revolution * January 6, 2009 US President elect Barack Obama gives his victory speech to supporters during election night in November. Let’s hope Barack Obama lives up to his promise of more honest leadership. Let’s hope Barack Obama lives up to his promise of more honest leadership. IT SEEMS to have been […]
Francis A Schaeffer by his son
Screwed-up saints Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s Christian philosophy guru Francis Schaeffer, has written a warts and all account of his life growing up in a Christian community. The book, Crazy for God, has drawn a scathing attack from at least one Schaeffer disciple. Its subtitle, “How I Grew Up as One of the […]
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