The Batcave

A place to muse on theology, society, politics, history, arts, and culture (let's see did I miss anything?)

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Movies A to Z: Angels with Dirty Faces

›
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938 dir. Michael Curtiz ) is Warner Brothers social conscience movie making at its best. Pat O’Brien and Jimmy C...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Anti-Americanism and the Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia

›
My journal article on "Anti-Americanism and the Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia" in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History ...
3 comments:
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Movies A-Z: All of Me to Angel and the Badman

›
A ll of Me (1984 dir. Carl Reiner) is a good showcase for Steve Martin’s physical comedy, making it clear that he is the bridge between Je...
2 comments:
Friday, May 21, 2010

The Master Press Release

›
The Master: The Life and Work of Edwrad Sugden , to which I contributed chapter 9, "Reading Wesley's Sermons in Edwardian Melbourn...

2nd Annual Conference of ACWR now taking registrations

›
Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research 2nd Annual Conference Friday, August 20 -21, 2010 Salvation Army Training College 303 Royal Parade...

Worship Text on E-Reader

›
Here's how the draft of a worship text I am preparing for publication looks on an e-Reader. Courtesy of Steve Wright.
3 comments:
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Review of Be Holy

›
Joseph Coleson, ed. Be Holy: God’s Invitation to Understand, Declare, and Experience Holiness . Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House...
1 comment:
Friday, February 05, 2010

Contagious Holiness

›
Craig L. Blomburg, Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners (Downers Grove: IVP, 2005). Notwithstanding its title, this book is ...
3 comments:

Holiness in the Gospels

›
In his book, Holiness in the Gospels (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2005) Dr. Kent Brower makes an excellent contribution to the much nee...

Reform and Conflict

›
Rudolph W. Heinze, Reform and Conflict: From the Medieval World to the Wars of Religion (Oxford: Monarch, 2006) is an excellent one volume i...

B.J. Kidd, The Counter-Reformation. London: SPCK, 1958.

›
Arnold Toynbee once derided those historians who think that “history is just one damned thing after another.” They may have had Kidd’s book...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Holiness Manifesto

›
This book is the result of considerable consultation among scholars in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition operating first as the Wesleyan-Holin...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Movies A-Z: The African Queen

›
The African Queen (1951, dir. John Huston ) is what classic Hollywood is all about. Based on C.S. Forester’s novel of the same name, i...
1 comment:
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

An Advent People - Sermon for the First Sunday of Advent

›
Text: Luke 21:25-36 Today’s Gospel reading may seem an odd one for the first Sunday in Advent. Aren’t we supposed to have more positive an...
1 comment:
Monday, November 30, 2009

Review of Robert Gribben's "Uniting in Thanksgiving"

›
Robert Gribben, Uniting in Thanksgiving: The Great Prayers of Thanksgiving of the Uniting Church in Australia . Melbourne: Uniting Academic ...
2 comments:

The Reformation and the English People

›
This is one of the earliest of the revisionist accounts of the English Reformation . It helpfully states its central thesis in its second se...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Master: The Life and Word of Edward H. Sugden

›
I'm pleased to announce the publication, by Uniting Academic Press, of the result of a symposium at Queen's College last year on Ed...
4 comments:
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Review of Gordon Rupp, The Old Reformation and the New

›
Gordon Rupp, The Old Reformation and the New: The Cato Lecture for 1966 (London: Epworth, 1967) I love a book of good lectures now and then...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Pipeline article on Booth College

›
The Salvation Army's Pipeline magazine has a write up on Stuart Devenish and I in our roles at Booth College . You can read an online pd...
2 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Glen O'Brien
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I'm married to Lynda and we have four children and two grandchildren. I live in Mernda just beyond Melbourne's northern limit. I serve as Associate Professor of Church History and Theology at Booth College, a Member Institute of the Sydney College of Divinity (I commute). I'm a Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church. I watch too many movies, especially classic Hollywood, and need to start thinking about alternative storage solutions for my DVDs. As for music, I like it all. iPod therefore I am. I am a book enthusiast with a growing collection of classic theology texts, paperbacks from the classic era of crime fiction and Silver and Bronze Age (1960s and 70s) comics.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.