The below article is taken from John Wright’s blog at http://www.pastorjohnwright.org/archives/2008/12/tears_and_midci.html. Well balanced from an American who cares about being God’s love to ALL.
After the first of January, I hope again to blog more regularly. It has been much too long since I’ve been able to keep up, and I hope things will be different [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Tears and Mid-City in Israel/Palestine
Posted in Christianity, Compassion, Injustice, Integrity, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Violence, War on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Graduation October 2008
Posted in Personal on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some links…
Group Photo
Family
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Posted in Atheist, Christianity, Health, Integrity, Secularism, Theology, tagged Atheist, Christian, Compassion, Integrity, Love, Mission on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris is an atheist, and so gives this insight to something that is meaningful and effective because people care.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. [...]
Ministry blames crowded jails on Labour
Posted in Conflict, Consumer, Control, Crime, Culture, Deception, Fear, Fiction, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, Law, Media, National Disgrace, Police, Politics, Prison, Restoration, Urban Decay, Violence, tagged Deception, Justice, Law, Politics, Prison on Monday, December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Britain’s soaring prison population is being driven by government policies rather than crime levels, according to an internal Whitehall briefing document seen by the Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/28/prison-crisis-labour-crime-levels
The paper, a presentation to ministers and civil servants drawn up by the Ministry of Justice, explains in detail how new measures introduced by Labour have [...]
Disestablishment of Church of England would be welcome, say leading bishops
Posted in Christianity, Church, Freedom, Good Theology, Integrity, News, Politics, Theology, tagged Independance, Integrity, Politics, Prophetic, Theology on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Disestablishment of the Church of England would bring welcome advantages, according to leading bishops.
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3966193/Disestablishment-of-Church-of-England-would-be-welcome-say-leading-bishops.html
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has received support from other leading bishops over the disestablishment of Church and state. Photo: PA
The Rt Rev John Packer, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, and the [...]
Recession could prove our chance for moral renewal
Posted in Capitalism, Christianity, Conflict, Consumer, Crime, Culture, Good Theology, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, National Disgrace, Restoration, Secularism, Theology, tagged Compassion. Politics, Morals, Poverty, Theology on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/3982504/Recession-could-prove-our-chance-for-moral-renewal.html
The trenchant denunciation of the Government by five Church of England bishops will strike a resonance well beyond the confines of their denomination or even the wider Christian community.
These churchmen have done the nation a favour by confronting it with a significant reality – that the current crisis is not simply economic, it has [...]
Bishops attack ‘immoral’ Labour
Posted in Capitalism, Christianity, Compassion, Consumer, Control, Crime, Culture, Deception, Disaster, Ethics, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Good Theology, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Justice, National Disgrace, Politics, Restoration, Secularism, Theology, Urban Decay, tagged Credit Crunch, Debt, Integrity, Morals, Poverty, Recession, Theology on Sunday, December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bishop of Manchester accused Labour of being beguiled by money
Five leading Anglican bishops have attacked the government by calling into question the morality of Labour policy.
Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Hulme, Manchester and Carlisle told the Sunday Telegraph the UK was suffering under family breakdown, debt and poverty.
Bishop of Manchester the Rt Rev Nigel [...]
Deutsche Bank rejects church charge
Posted in Capitalism, Deception, Disaster, Indecency, Injustice, Institutionalism, Integrity, Urban Decay, tagged Debt, Integrity, Parasite on Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b0453f6-d37c-11dd-989e-000077b07658.html
By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt
Published: December 26 2008 23:16 | Last updated: December 26 2008 23:16
Deutsche Bank reacted angrily on Friday after Germany’s senior Protestant bishop accused Josef Ackermann, its chief executive, of turning money-making into a form of “idolatry”.
In a rare and testy public exchange between a prominent German financial institution and a [...]
‘The soldiers didn’t ask any questions. They just shot him’
Posted in Violence, War, tagged Brutality, Conflict, Death, Iraq, War on Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Witnesses tell of the systematic slaughter of civilians by Nkunda’s Tutsi rebels
Chris McGreal in Kiwanja
Jumy Kasereka told his mother the Tutsi rebel soldiers would not harm him. After all, he was a schoolteacher, not a fighter, and they would see he was too sick from malaria to move. Kasereka begged his mother to leave [...]
Face to faith
Posted in Advent, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Good Theology, Methodism, Restoration, tagged Advent, Christian, Christmas on Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saint Luke’s gospel sees God making imaginative use of the everyday in the nativity story, says David Monkton
David Monkton Oliver Postgate’s world of Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pogles’ Wood and The Clangers was created by using very ordinary everyday materials, sounds, objects and scenery. It captured the imagination of children and parents [...]
