Duncan Macleod on faith and culture
Earlier this week I had the privilege of chairing a lecture by visiting Muslim scholar and imam, Abduljalil Sajid. He was speaking at an Initiatives of Change gathering hosted by Elanora Uniting Church. Imam Sajid’s topic for the evening was “Being a Muslim in the West”. The local audience, mostly Christian, were interested to explore …
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In The Shaping of Things to Come, Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch provide some useful references points for contextual incarnational approaches to mission in new people groups. Paul Hiebert is professor of mission and anthropology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He writes on anthropology, mission, folk religions, urban contexts and Hinduism. Paul …
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Today I caught the last day of Brian McLaren’s appearances in Melbourne. This morning and this afternoon were at Tabor College. Brian started the day by giving us a basic introduction to the three worlds we find co-existing and struggling with one another: premodernism, modernism and post modernism. It was helpful to reflect on the …
Mitri Raheb, pastor at Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, Bethlehem, has written an insightful reading of the Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian elections. It’s available online at Sojourners (I first saw it on the Sojourners email today) and on the site for Dar Annadwa Addawliyya – The International Center of Bethlehem. The article’s in English, …
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In honour of Fathers’ Day in Australia here’s a third TV ad on the theme fathers and their children, from Telecom New Zealand ‘s “Keep In Touch” campaign. Saatchi & Saatchi Wellington made this ad for Telecom NZ in a bid to take the former telecommunications monopoly from commodity to a company with feeling and …
Reported in the Age this week is the sentencing in the trial of Pentecostal Christian pastors Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot. Judge Michael Higgins, of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, yesterday ordered Christian group Catch the Fire Ministries, Mr Scot and Mr Nalliah to publish apologies for comments made at a Melbourne seminar in …
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