Most of my readers will not have heard of Central Otago. Otago
is the name of a Southern Province in New Zealand stretching
roughly from Dunedin on the …
If the “Five Fundamentals” articulated by traditional
Christians in the early years of the 20th century represent the
essence of Christianity then the time has come to acknowledge
…
The last of the Five Fundamentals claimed by American
Protestant Traditionalists as the irreducible essence of
Christianity has to do with the second coming of Jesus. To
modern …
Something clearly happened to the band of Jesus’
disciples at some point following his crucifixion that was
profound, life changing and deeply real. We have no written
records …
Something clearly happened to the band of Jesus’
disciples at some point following his crucifixion that was
profound, life changing and deeply real. We have no written
records …
Did Jesus literally and physically walk out of
his grave, restored to life, on the third day following his
crucifixion? Those who drafted the Five Fundamentals thought so
…
My lecture tour of Australia apparently tapped
into a spiritual hunger that seems to be omni-present in that
land. Book store lecture events in Sydney, Melbourne, Malvern,
Frankston …
Some twenty years or so ago the leaders of Australia’s
Uniting Church, a body that came into being in 1979 as a merger
of Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists, with
samplings …
It was the best conference I have attended in my
entire career. Entitled “Common Dreams” and attracting 1500
plus people to Sydney, it was the brainchild of a committee of
…
Author’s note: While in Australia, the Sydney Morning
Herald invited me to write an op-ed piece on the future of
Christianity. I found that a particularly interesting …