Tracy Ryan, Sweet, Fremantle Press: 2008. RRP: $26.95
Tracy Ryan’s third novel, Sweet, is the story of three women caught in the thrall of a manipulative pastor of a conservative Baptist church in the outer-suburbs of Perth circa 1986. The Reverend William King is a complex figure, genuinely caring but always controlling.
Cody is seventeen and [...]
Thinking further about the need for radical Christianity to offer a church to believers, I’m struck by an inconsistency in my thinking. I have been calling for diversity to be a key commitment of the church; surely that diversity should include radicals and conservatives and liberals too?
Our Anabaptists Anonymous group did a simulation of a Roman [...]
No-one denies that blacks and whites are equal. God created both blacks and whites in his image. They are both equally capable of leading.
But not everyone can be a leader and the Bible teaches us He created black and whites for different roles, to complement each other.
White people were created to be leaders. There is [...]
It’s a hard thing us radical Christians ask of people.
We ask them to join a movement without all the answers, without clear boundaries (and with common fences with both liberals and evangelicals), and without churches. So many of us have so many questions and so many problems that we’re not sure quite sure how to [...]
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