Subtitled: 'A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your
Flag, Your Future', by Robin Meyers, Wiley, 2006.

The cover blurb sums it up well: 'I join the ranks of those who are
angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by
fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are
anything but Christian.'

Robin Meyers is a United Church of Christ minister, a contributor to The
Christian Century, and 'professor of rhetoric' at Oklahoma City University.

In 2004 he gave a speech at a University of Oklahoma peace rally from
which he achieved widespread Internet fame. (You can find the speech by
putting the relevant words into Google - or the John Mark Ministries
website indexes). It ended with these stirring words: 'Time to march
again my friends. Time to commit acts of civil disobedience. Time to
sing, and to pray, and refuse to participate in the madness. My
generation finally stopped a tragic war. You can too!'

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Masturbation: A Christian Perspective

'Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's not something to be
particularly proud of, either.' (Matt Groening)

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(P.S. A note to those who've seen this post previously: I circulate it
about once a month to some Usenet groups where young people in
particular have questions about this subject and don't know where to
turn for answers. Every time it's posted 1,000+ visit the article to
read it. So, you regular Usenet inhabitants, you don't need to get
excited about this repetition - for whatever reason :-)!!!
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IRRESISTIBLE REVOLUTION (Shane Claiborne)

(Zondervan, 2006).

Shane Claiborne looks, speaks, and dresses like an Old Testament prophet
(or John the Baptist). And he makes the same sort of crazy sense. (But
he's had a better formal education than most of them).

He's a young (my guess: 30s) idealistic American, who spent time with
Mother Teresa's helpers in India, and went to Iraq with other
peacemakers (there he was lucky to survive a car accident and other
possible horrors). He's one of the founding members of The Simple Way
community in very-downtown Philadelphia, and a prominent activist.

A couple of months ago I heard him speak at the Urban Neighbours of Hope
conference in Melbourne, and was impressed. (My wife Jan's job at the
conference was to provide hospitality - bedding and breakfast, for Shane
- and his mother: he's never married - and other speakers, but that's
by-the-way). He's a terrific raconteur. Who could forget his lines:
'Patriots you may bring your flags; we're washing feet and will need
some rags'? Or his story about throwing $10,000 worth of small change
around Wall Street. Or of his grandfather's setting fire to fields
because he overloaded a new trailer with hay, which ignited from friction?

In his book Blue Like Jazz Don Miller tells the delightful story of how
he and his friends dressed like monks and set up a confessional booth on
their notoriously heathen college campus. But instead of hearing other
people's confessions, they were confessing their sins as Christians and
the sins of Christendom to anyone who was willing to listen and forgive.

I think the world would be willing to listen to a church on its knees, a
church that doesn't pretend to be perfect or to have all the answers. I
think a mystical, sacramental healing can begin within us and extend
into the wounds of our world...

Shane Claiborne, Irresistible Revolution, p. 251.

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Do Yourself a Favour: Encourage your Pastor -

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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

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