Here’s another quotation from Marquart, this time on the language of `politics:’ Church politics, like beauty, is largely in the eye of the beholder. My “politics” is likely to be somebody else’s “responsible leadership” and vice versa. It all depends…
Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press. When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…
Readers of Ref21 will know that, given my understanding of the importance of the church and her courts, I don’t like trials by blog, petition, or tabloid press. When someone has an issue with an office bearer in their denomination,…
On the recommendation of Peter Hastie, I obtained a copy of Kurt E Marquardt’s Anatomy of an Explosion: Missouri in Lutheran Perspective, an account of the amazing confessional resurgence in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in the 1960s and 70s. …
On the recommendation of Peter Hastie, I obtained a copy of Kurt E Marquardt’s Anatomy of an Explosion: Missouri in Lutheran Perspective, an account of the amazing confessional resurgence in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church in the 1960s and 70s. …
A student brought this news story to my attention. What is it with these “non-sectarian” established churches that they find orthodox Christianity to be so problematic when it comes to getting people interested in — ahem — orthodox Christianity? First…
A student brought this news story to my attention. What is it with these “non-sectarian” established churches that they find orthodox Christianity to be so problematic when it comes to getting people interested in — ahem — orthodox Christianity? First…
At dinner with some friends in the Pacific Northwest last night, I discovered that I had been preceded a few months ago by Derek Thomas who, in addition to rubbishing my taste in music, had strangely omitted to mention to…
At dinner with some friends in the Pacific Northwest last night, I discovered that I had been preceded a few months ago by Derek Thomas who, in addition to rubbishing my taste in music, had strangely omitted to mention to…
Mrs Peel just sent me this link on a whole new branch of doctoral studies: here. Should restore the confidence in the system of any who feel that the post-Thatcherite Gradgrinds of this world are turning education into a downgraded,…
