Rowland Croucher
Blonde Pilot
The Blonde Pilot.. This is the story of the poor dizzy blonde flying in a two-seater airplane with just the pilot. He has a heart attack and dies. She, frantic, calls out a May Day. “May Day! May Day! Help me! Help me! My pilot had a heart attack and is dead. And I don’t […]
EKNATH EASWARAN: Original Goodness
EKNATH EASWARAN: Original Goodness: on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount (1989/1966). Recently posted to my Facebook page: photo of young lady sitting in a meditative posture with hands open, saying: ¢â‚¬ËœHurry up peace of mind, I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t have all day! ¢â‚¬â„¢ My recently-discovered expert on meditation, Eknath Easwaran, is the writer I would […]
Pray for the World August/September 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 177 | Wed 19 Sep 2012 ————————- PRAYING THROUGH THE RIOTS ————————- by Elizabeth Kendal The current ‘Film riots’ bear many similarities to the ‘Cartoon Intifada’ of February 2006. The Danish cartoons had been published months earlier – even republished in Cairo during Ramadan (Nov […]
‘Insider Killings’ in Afghanistan
Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 AM PDT This article first appeared with Frontpage Magazine. In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan allies in what is known as ¢â‚¬Ëœinsider killings ¢â‚¬â„¢. Members of the Afghan army, having been trained and armed by NATO forces, are turning their weapons in increasing numbers against their […]
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP NOT A FIX ALL by Robert Dilday, Managing editor of the Religious Herald a magazine published in America. Editors note. The following article is not published as being necessarily reflective of the views of the Australian Prayer Network but as an article of interest to encourage contemplation on the nature and relevance of the […]
Henri Nouwen: more wisdom
Remaining Anchored in Love When we are anxious we are inclined to overprepare. We wonder what to say when we are attacked, how to respond when we are being interrogated, and what defence to put up when we are accused. It is precisely this turmoil that makes us lose our self-confidence and creates in us […]
Richard Rohr: More Wisdom…
SILENCE The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it’s the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don’t love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface. We won’t have the courage to go into that terrifying […]
Gay Issues: Justice Michael Kirby…
Last night (Anglican) Trinity College Melbourne hosted the 42nd Barry Marshall Lecture with guest speaker, the Hon Michael Kirby AM CMG. Justice Kirby was, before he retired recently, the longest-serving Australian judge. He was introduced with several minutes’ worth of accomplishments (including, I think, 20 honorary doctorates). My review of one of his books is here. […]
Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity [1]
Notes for our Wednesday Koinonia group, September 12, 2012 A New Kind of Christianity: Brian McLaren. Summary of first 125 pages Introduction: Bad news: Christian faith/church is in trouble. (The ¢â‚¬ËœWay ¢â‚¬â„¢ of Jesus a club for Pharisees; today people admire Jesus but hate the church). Protestants: lost between modernity and postmodernity. Catholics: torn since Vatican […]
WHEN CHURCH IS EASY: WHEN CHURCH IS HARD (Psalm 84, John 6:56-69)
(Rough notes for a sermon to be preached this Sunday – 26th August 2012 – at St Martin’s Community Church, Collingwood, Melbourne – an amazingly inclusive congregation, founded a couple of decades ago by John Smith/ God’s Squad). First: my preaching/handout notes: St Martin’s Collingwood, Melbourne : WHEN CHURCH IS EASY / HARD. 1.Psalm 84 is a […]
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