Couldn't Help Noticing
An online survey of issues, events and ideas
All quiet on the CHN front
Karen Beilharz / 8th May 2008
Eagle-eyed CHN readers have probably noticed that not much has been happening on the Couldn't Help Noticing front for a little while now. In the wake of the launch of our new blog, The Sola Panel, we have decided to suspend activity on the CHN blog for the time being.
Those who have received the May edition of e-news will know that Paul Grimmond, Chaplain at the University of New South Wales and pastor of Unichurch, will be joining us at The Briefing later this year. When Paul comes on board, ...
Politeness and hell
Gordon Cheng / 1st May 2008
Here's a sharp and pointy statement from Charles Spurgeon about politeness and hell, two subjects that I've been thinking about lately:
Men are perishing, and if it be unpolite to tell them so, it can only be so where the devil is the master of the ceremonies.
Out upon your soul-destroying politeness; the Lord give us a little honest love to souls, and this superficial gentility will soon vanish. I could with considerable refreshment to myself pour sarcasm after sarcasm upon religious ...
The longing and the library (May)
Karen Beilharz / 30th April 2008
The Briefing Library
Recent additions to our online archives:
- How to survive your denomination (Briefing #13)
- The denomination as idol by (Briefing #13)
- The Relationship Between the Testaments: Church (Briefing #58)
- Why, where, and how should Christians meet? (Briefing #116)
- Factotum #1: The Ministry of the Pew by Colin Marshall (Briefing #131)
And, in relation to Briefing #355, more articles on music and church:
- Minor or Major?: The key to church music by John Woodhouse(Briefing #112)
Sydney Bible teaching
Ian Carmichael / 29th April 2008
For our readers who are in or around Sydney, there is an upcoming opportunity for you to receive some great input from the Bible on the long weekend in June, right in the centre of the city. The details are as follows:
The Queen's Birthday Convention
When: Monday 9 June, 2008 from 10am to 5pm
Where: St Andrew's Cathedral (cnr George St and Bathurst St, Sydney)
Cost: From $15 (including morning and afternoon tea and all day parking). See the website for full details of cost.
Speaker: Phillip ...
Claire Smith on men and women
Gordon Cheng / 28th April 2008
The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood over in the US runs a blog. Currently there is an interview with Claire Smith on the subject of complementarianism in Australia. Claire says:
Many dioceses have proceeded to allow women to be ordained to the priesthood. Others, such as the Sydney Diocese, have sought to remain faithful to scriptural teaching and the Anglican tradition and have not changed the nature of ordained ministry; others, whilst having no real objections, have not as yet ...
