Volume 1, Issue 3, June 1994

Article Summary:

RE-IMIAGINING

Last November, in Minneapolis, 2,000 women from all over the world gathered for a conference called Re-Imagining. It was part of the World Council of Churches' Decade in Solidarity with Women. It seemed innocent enough but it aroused tremendous controversy. More . . .

ADVANCING SECULARISM CHALLENGES RELIGION

Back in 1968, Peter L. Berger, professor of sociology in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, addressed a gathering and predicted that, by the 21st century, religious believers are likely to be found only in small sects, huddled together to resist a world-wide secular culture. More . . .

I HAVE LOST MY EASY GOD

One summer when camping in Algonquin Park I socialized with a young family from Detroit. The mother was a sister of a Roman Catholic priest, More . . .

EACH MUST FIND JESUS FOR THEMSELF

Based on the new knowledge of the historic Jesus, Daniel Easterman, has written his latest fictional novel, entitled, "The Judas Testament". Just published by HarperCollins, the novel contains the following statement by an old priest: More . . .

LIFELONG LEARNING TO DO GOOD

Contemporary life raises questions that the church is failing to answer. Society is evolving new forms in which the church can no longer function. Jesus had direct association with the poor and the outcasts. He was where the action was. He was constantly leading out. "Behold, he goes before you into Galilee". More . . .

JESUS CAN'T BE LEFT IN THE PAST

What a man Jesus was! He was a human person who did more than anyone else to better humanity. He did not drift among the commonplaces of life untouched by what he saw. He did not run from trouble because it was implicating, or sidestep human need because it was demanding. He consistently refused to answer the hard questions of life with half-truths or naive platitudes. He never left a person or a situation as he found it. More . . .

 

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