Rowland Croucher
A Politician Father Mourns his Lost Son…
Dad & Dave Date September 15, 2012 Photographs courtesy of James Butt High plains drifters ¢â‚¬ ¦ John Button with sons James, at right, and David, on Victoria ¢â‚¬â„¢s Bogong High Plains in 1970. A respected minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, Senator John Button’s political skills hid a private inner despondency about the death […]
Melting Arctic Ice to Arguments about Dispensationalism !!!
An intriguing discussion (which brought back memories from my childhood Brethren Assembly in Sydney): First, a member of our fortnightly study group asked me about this: http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/environment/2012/sep/14/arctic-sea-ice-smallest-extent ~~ Then followed these: WAKE UP !! The Guardian is OWNED by the Elite and is nothing more than a propaganda machine to spread their lies and misinformation…There […]
Youth anger – let’s encourage their teachers more…
Their souls slide away, but don’t look back in anger September 16, 2012 All men are liars (Sam de Brito) Jeez, isn’t it unfashionable to be angry? I don’t mean phoning-up-the-radio-to-complain-about-“them-boat-people” angry. Or even “How-dare-they-call-Leisel-Jones-fat!” and “My-power-bill-is-what?!” angry. I refer to your I’m-young-and-live-in-a-dump-suburb-and-nothing-good-ever happens-so-I-play-loud-music-and-drive-fast-and-get-filthy-pissed-and-cause-trouble angry. There are plenty of givers for this type of anger […]
Diverse Sexuality and Gender – a collection of writings
On 1st September 2012, I was privileged to attend a whole-day conference titled ‘A Different Conversation’ – a marvelous opportunity to interact with about 60 others to discuss matters of interest/concern to ‘DSG’ (“Diverse Sexuality and Gender”) friends. Here’s a rough copy of an excellent collection of articles distributed on that day: A collection of […]
Psalm 27 (The Imperials): Beautiful!
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James Conlon: Invisible Excursions
James Conlon, Invisible Excursions: A Compass for the Journey, (Wyndham Hall Press, 2012). The names commending this visionary autobiography (Diarmuid O ¢â‚¬â„¢Murchu et. al.), writing a Foreword (Rosemary Radford Ruether), and those of James Conlon ¢â‚¬â„¢s mentors (Thomas Berry, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Matthew Fox) give anyone who reads the burgeoning literature on Christian Spirituality an inkling […]
North Korea: the world’s saddest country?
Can North Korea’s agony find an end? Reviewed by Spengler September 11, 2012 Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick Melanie Kirkpatrick tells one of the saddest stories I have ever read, about a North Korean family of four apprehended by the Chinese authorities after they had fled to China. […]
GAY HEALTH CLAIMS BASED ON FAULTY STUDIES
AUTHOR // Serkan Ozturk September 12, 2012 Controversial comments by some Christian leaders over the past week suggesting smoking was healthier than the ¢â‚¬Å“gay lifestyle ¢â‚¬ have now been linked back to discredited research funded by a fundamentalist group in the US as well as other papers which have since been retracted or disowned by their authors. […]
The Vatican’s very own revolution
By Barney Zwartz Sept. 11, 2012 ON JANUARY 25, 1959, the newly elected Pope John XXIII invited 18 cardinals from the Vatican bureaucracy to attend a service at the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. He told them he planned to summon a global church council. The horrified cardinals were speechless, which […]
The Kingdom of Heaven (Dorothy Sayers)
Dorothy L. Sayers, in a 1954 lecture on the limitations of language, gives a brilliant summary of all the different metaphors and parables Jesus uses to explain the Kingdom of Heaven. ¢â‚¬Å“The Kingdom of Heaven, ¢â‚¬ said the Lord Christ, ¢â‚¬Å“is among you. ¢â‚¬ But what, precisely, is the Kingdom of Heaven? You cannot point to existing […]
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