Sea of Faith Christchurch Group

On Friday 25 March, Bill Shepard will talk to us about Islam. He writes: “I will explain what I (and others) see to be the basic problem for Muslims in modern times and outline four kinds of responses to it, one of which includes the current “jihadis”. I will try to allow plenty of time for questions and discussion.”

Bill Shepard is a retired associate professor from the department of religious studies at Canterbury University. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on Islam and we are privileged to have him talk to our group.

Hugh has alerted us to the following youtube video, which is a good overview of mainstream geological understanding of what we have been going through:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTvFDSpmh3A

Also the following by Bronwyn Hayward on resilient citizenship:

http://resolve.sustainablelifestyles.ac.uk/news/bronwyn-hayward-talks-about-resilient-citizenship-youtube

An inclusive Christmas celebration. Especially for people who have problems with the theology in traditional Christmas carols.

Sunday 28 November 4.00 pm. St George’s Presbyterian Church, corner Linwood Av and Gloucester St.

Organized by Bill Wallace.

Recently, I came across the following story, which I shared with the group on 5 November. I assume that it is not in any of the Buddhist scriptures, but is a free composition probably from Osho himself.

Laurie

One morning, it must have been such a beautiful morning, a man comes to Gautama Buddha and asks him, “Does God exist?” Everybody is curious to know what Buddha answers. Continue Reading »

The 2010 Quaker Lecture will be held on Thursday 21 October at 7:30 in the Christchurch Art Gallery.

For more information, click here: http://sofchch.blogtown.co.nz/files/2010/09/The-2010-Quaker-Lecture.pdf