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Monthly Archives: December 2009
The view from our window on Christmas morning
25 December, 2009 – 8:51 PM
Eastern Rosella (photo: michelle addison)
A cold wind blows in China this Christmas
24 December, 2009 – 5:55 PM
It has been six weeks since worshippers at Beijing’s Shouwang House Church were abruptly shunted out of their long-time home in a nondescript low-rise building. A week after their landlord succumbed to pressure from authorities and turfed them on to the street, more than 500 church members gathered outside the east gate of Haidian Park. [...]
Gotta pick a pocket or two
22 December, 2009 – 1:02 PM
Christmas must be the silly season for media hungry clergymen. A UK clergyman has advised his congregation to shoplift following his Nativity sermon. Father Tim Jones, 41, broke off from his traditional annual sermon on Sunday to tell his flock that stealing from large high street chains is sometimes the best option for vulnerable people. [...]
Christmas downunder
22 December, 2009 – 9:51 AM
Ever wondered how Santa gets around in the heat of the Australian summer? HT: Andrew Bolt
7 Lessons from the Student Volunteer Movement
21 December, 2009 – 9:04 PM
The last in a series of posts on the greatest student missionary movement in history. We’ve seen is rise and its fall. Here are a few thoughts on the enduring lessons for us today. 1. History is made by people who don’t know any better. The break throughs in the renewal and expansion of the [...]
A lost cause
19 December, 2009 – 8:49 PM
In 1927 Robert Wilder resigned and returned to the mission field. He was the first and last of the founding leaders. The Student Volunteer Movement continued to distance itself from the missionary ideals that had launched it. At the 1928 SVM convention in Detroit, Sherwood Eddy publicly repudiated the founding vision of the movement: “The [...]
Wishing you a “progressive” Xmas
18 December, 2009 – 9:45 AM
A “progressive” Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand has erected a billboard depicting Mary looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph. The huge ad shows the unhappy couple in bed accompanied by the slogan: “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow.” In the fresco-style work, Joseph looks down red-faced while an anguished Mary [...]
New Zealand Tour 2010
17 December, 2009 – 4:49 PM
The details are out: Movements Tour New Zealand 2010
Embracing another gospel
16 December, 2009 – 10:35 AM
How are we to account for the decline of a once great missionary movement? One important factor was the acceptance of a more “relevant” gospel. Just before World War I, the Social Gospel movement led by theologians such as Walter Rauschenbusch (above) began to influence the thinking of the Student Volunteer Movement. It became a [...]
