Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. The shocking rape and murder of a young woman by a gang of male thugs in India last week has opened the eyes of the world to the violence suffered by Indian women, and their cultural disadvantage and social plight. Rape is one of the most serious of …
Happy New Year!
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. Happy New Year to all our listeners! On this first Sunday of 2013, here’s a prayer from one of the world’s great Christian leaders, the Reverend Billy Graham, published in The Saturday Evening Post: Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year …
The moral case for sustainability
Broadcast on 2CH, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. A recent study has found that encouraging people to adopt ecologically sustainable behaviours based on the moral rather than economic case may be more effective. The Guardian newspaper reports that in an experiment conducted at a Dutch petrol station, researchers compared two messages aimed at persuading people to get …
Why theological method matters
Summary of Brian Harris, "Why method matters: Insights from the theological method of Stanley J. Grenz," Crucible 2 (1), Nov 2009. Available here. Harris claims that evangelical Christians often view theological method as "the death of spiritual passion, and at best, a dangerous enterprise."[1]Â Similarly, Grenz and Franke note that while Theologians in mainline theological …
Reflections on theological formation (part 1)
I grew up in close proximity to fundamentalist and conservative evangelical churches; my primary theological degree is from a conservative evangelical theological college; and I have been employed since 1994 by Baptist churches embracing a conservative evangelical identity. So it goes without saying that reflection on theological method has not loomed large in my spiritual …
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