| “I am a spiritual person but I’m not into organized religion.” So say many people in our world. This booklet traces the ambivalent relationship between spirituality and religion back to Jesus himself, and his conflict with the religious leaders of his day. Avoiding the kind of argument which says, “Don’t look at the church, just look at Jesus,” it encourages the reader to seek out communities which are seeking to follow Jesus with integrity–even though they may sometimes fail.
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Outside the church, the question of whether Jesus rose from the dead is a non-issue, at best a joke on a par with the question of whether Elvis is still alive. This booklet looks at the stories of Jesus and Elvis in parallel–did they really die? what is the evidence that they are now alive? and what are they (supposedly) doing now? It concludes that the claims made about Jesus are significantly more far-reaching than those made for Elvis.
Mark Harris describes the characteristics of Generation X, and shows how each one find an echo in the life and teaching of a Jesus who is timeless yet always culturally challenging.
This booklet is based on a submission by the Christian Medical and Dental Society to The Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in 1994. The first section considers arguments for and against euthanasia; the second contains moving case studies of where euthanasia was (or was not) carried out.
My friend, Lisa, wrote me recently: Suffering has been the story of my life. I am at a point in my therapy where I almost donít want to remove any more barriers blocking memories of my childhood for fear of yet another ordeal to face.
