"Lily's Room"

This is an article collection between June 2007 and December 2018. Sometimes I add some recent articles too.

Christianity

Liberation Theology again (1)

This is a continuation of the previous blogs (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20170703)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20170704). They are excerpts. (Lily) Structuralist Anti-Capitalism, Grass-roots Communities, and the Hermeneutic of P…

Scapegoat evangelicalism

Free Malaysia Today(http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/)Centhra’s fondness to scapegoat evangelicalism? 4 July 2017 Faulting local Christians as the cause of Muslims converting, and calling for a ban on evangelical groups, seems to be an a…

Gustavo Gutierrez

This is a continuation of the yesterday's blog (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20170703). (Lily) Gustavo Gutierrez and the Critique of Developmentalism By the last half of the sixties it was apparent that the millennium was not about to …

Whither Liberation Theology?

(https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=10281)Whither Liberation Theology? A Historical Evaluation by Paul E. Sigmund Sophia Institute, January 1, 1987 What is liberation theology? Why has a relatively new theolo…

United Church of Christ

Jihad Watch(https://www.jihadwatch.org/) United Church of Christ Congregation: Islam More Progressive than Christianity 30 June 2017 by Andrew Harrod “One of the real gifts that Islam brings is an understanding of what it is to have a co…

Liberation theology (2)

From wikipedia about Liberation Theology (excerpts) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology)・Liberation theology is an interpretation of Christian theology which emphasises a concern for the liberation of the oppressed. ・The…

Liberation theology (1)

As for this topic, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=Liberation+theology). (Lily)The Guardian(https://www.theguardian.com/world/)Catholic church warms to liberation theology as founder he…

Is Christianisation danger?

As I wrote many times in the past, this kind of story has been occurring repeatedly in Malaysia. See my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20170616)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/20170618) (Lily) The Malaysian Insight(h…

Outlaw Evangelicalism? (2)

The Malay Mail Online(http://www.themalaymailonline.com/)Church group urges govt to act against writer, Utusan mooting ‘anti-evangelicalism laws’ Kuala Lumpur 16 June 2017 Calling it an “attack” on Christians, the National Evangelical Ch…

Outlaw Evangelicalism? (1)

Such kind of news are not new to me at all. It has been repeatedly occurring for more than a few decades in Malaysia. The point is that if the Muslim side wants to ban the Christian evangelism, then Muslims should ban their Da'wa movement …

Londonistan still continues

1.The Times(https://www.thetimes.co.uk/) 13 June 2017 Only Brexit can save our values from an abyss by Melanie Phillips The EU’s surrender to mass migration has increased division while stifling dissenting voicesEvery so often, something…

Are Christians disappearing?

I have read this kind of sentence many a time since the 1980s in the Malaysian newspapers and booklets: ‘Malaysia's image as a liberal and tolerant Islamic country is increasingly fading’. (Lily) Christian Post(http://www.christianpost.co…

Where’s a national cohesion?

I met this author three times in 2014, 2015, and 2016 in New York City, Negev-Israel, and Europe (Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm) respectively. As for the so-called humanitarian assistance for the refugees, we have to make a distinction betw…

Muslims in Christian schools

1. The Telegraph(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)Muslim parents sending their children to Christian schools to prepare them for 'life in modern Britain' by Camilla Turner, EDUCATION EDITOR 20 February 2017 Muslim parents are sending their ch…

Quaker education for Israel

As for this author, please refer to my previous posting list (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Asaf+Romirowsky%22). I met him on 10 April 2014 in New York City. (Lily) (http://www.romirowsky.com/19718/) The Nature of Quak…

Debunked by the Vatican

Herald Malaysia(http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/)No, Pope Francis didn't say Christianity and Islam should merge Widely shared quotes attributed to Pope Francis, in which he advocates for a merging of the religions of Christianity and Isla…

UN Human Rights Council

As for this author, please refer to my previous postings(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=Ida+Lichter+). (Lily) The Australian(http://www.theaustralian.com.au/) New UN boss Antonio Guterres needs to treat UNHRC decay By Dr…

Toledot Yeshu

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com/)The Jewish Jesus Story In the mysterious and controversial ancient Hebrew text ‘Toledot Yeshu,’ a counterlife of the Nazarene ‘bastard, son of a menstruant’ that criticizes Jews as much as Christians by E…

The dark side of Christmas

Malay Mail Online(http://www.themalaymailonline.com/) The dark side of Christmas, 23 December 2016 DECEMBER 23 ― Many people forget that Christmas actually started with the massacre of babies. The Jewish King Herod, like most people with…

Primates’ Christmas Message

As for this Malaysian Archbishop of Anglican Church, please refer to my previous postings (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Ng%20Moon%20Hing%22&of=50)(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/itunalily2/archive?word=%22Ng+Moon+Hing%22). (Lily…

Legacy of the late Edward Said

Middle East Quaterly(http://www.meforum.org/6400/celebrating-orientalism)"Celebrating" Orientalism by Richard Landes Middle East Quarterly Winter 2017 Whether one views the impact of Edward Said (1935-2003) on academia as a brilliant tri…

Conundrum in Germany

I visited Berlin last month and went briefly to a Christian church where some Muslim converts to Christianity stayed. It was a short visit, so I could not learn more details about them. My question: Are they authentic Christians or just te…

Martin Luther and the Jews

Israel Study Center Luther, Hitler, Christianity and the Jews Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg 28 Augus 2016 (received) Christianity has struggled with the Jewish Question for a very long time. Only 70 something years ago a Christian nation unde…

Coptic Church in Egypt

Ahram (http://english.ahram.org.eg/) New Egyptian church building law to provide permits faster Egyptian Christians have long complained of having to wait years to get licences to build or renovate churches by Ayat Al Tawy 11 Aug 2016A lon…

Conundrum in Europe

Tablet(http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/209243/)by Clemens Heni On March 13, there were state elections in three German states: Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saxony-Anhalt. In all three states, the biggest…

Methodology of Dawah (3)

Each page is shown according to the PDF format page. (Lily) (www.dawahinamericas.com/bookspdf/MethodologyofDawah.pdf)"Methodology of Dawah Elallah In American Perspective" by Shamim A Siddiqi Ramadan 23, 1409 H /April 2, 1989 New York Co…

Methodology of Dawah (2)

Each page is shown according to the PDF format page. (Lily) (www.dawahinamericas.com/bookspdf/MethodologyofDawah.pdf)"Methodology of Dawah Elallah In American Perspective" by Shamim A Siddiqi Ramadan 23, 1409 H /April 2, 1989 New York Co…