Bogosity

I heard from Don about Willow Creek’s (an american megachurch) decision to cancel church on sunday because it is a time for families. Google the news for it and you’ll come up with a number of opinions and it seems to have created some controversy.

I thought this guy was interesting and has some good [...]

James has gotten me out of the lackofchristmasmessage hot water by providing me with a well researched and thoughtful one that I can link to without any effort on my part.

So with out any further ado, here is the link and some choice cuts below.

Putting Herod Back Into Christmas

In Luke’s account of Christmas there was [...]

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902 – 1968)

Catching up on some episodes of Compass that I taped.

Make it real is a doco about a teenage boy Kevin from Kenya who is an AIDs orphan. It follows his story of going to the international AIDs conference and also follows the stories of some other youth who were at the conference from Australia [...]

This is the newsletter from the World Council of Churches Climate Change Programme. David Hallman was the speaker at a church and environment conference in Brisbane that I went to a few years back.

COP11/MOP1 2005 Report

A second important decision, this time including the USA and Australia, is that all countries will begin a “dialogue” [...]

This is great!

The Chronicle: 12/2/2005: How Christianity (and Capitalism) Led to Science

During the past century Western intellectuals have been more than willing to trace European imperialism to Christian origins, but they have been entirely un-willing to recognize that Christianity made any contribution (other than intolerance) to the Western capacity to dominate other societies. Rather, the [...]

An article emailed to me by James.

Being Blessed by Pagan Friends

“There is one fundamental truth in which I have never for a moment disagreed with him. Whatever else he is, he has never been a pessimist; or in spiritual matters a defeatist. He is at least on the side of Life…. Everything is wrong about [...]