Reginald John Campbell on free market business competition from the sermon “Christianity and the Social Order” from City Temple Sermons (1903): Unlimited competition is wrong. There is a place for competition, but after a certain point has been reached competition becomes tyranny. […]
Reading – Acts 8:26-40 (NRSV) 26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. […]
Here is Martin Luther making a point about the difference between the philosophical (read ‘scientific’) and theological understandings of the rainbow from Genesis 9:13: This sign [the rainbow] should remind us to give thanks to God. For as often as the rainbow […]
From Socialism and the Ethics of Jesus by Henry C. Vedder, 1914 SOURCE: http://www.archive.org/stream/socialismethicso00vedd#page/174/mode/1up By its hostility to Christianity, Anarchy has rejected the only ally that promises the least encouragement to the practical working of its social theories. For, if the time […]
Here are John Wesley’s rules for church stewards. Which do you think are still relevant today? (From The Journal of John Wesley, Volume 3, pp. 300-301. June 1747. Source: https://archive.org/stream/a613690403wesluoft#page/300/mode/2up) Thursday 4 June 1747: I reduced the sixteen stewards to seven, to […]
Readings for Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Isaiah 65:17-25 Isaiah 12 Malachi 4:1-2a Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 In two weeks time we begin the Christian season of Advent. This season is when Christians prepare for the arrival of their […]
Reading – Isaiah 1:1, 10–20 1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of […]
I have been invited to deliver a conference paper at the triennial consultation of the Global Network for Public Theology in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The conference dates are 24-26 October 2016. The theme of their meeting is “Democracy and Social Justice in […]
PTC chapel reflection on Acts 16:16-34 and Paul’s exorcising the demon
Hans Jonas on the inverse relationship between our powers and our ethics: Now we shiver in the nakedness of a nihilism in which near-omnipotence is paired with near-emptiness, greatest capacity with knowing least for what ends to use it. The Imperative of […]