Rowland Croucher
Visiting many places…
I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport; you have to be driven there. […]
One in spirit’: same-sex unions in the Bible
ALAN AUSTIN “Where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from […]
RECONCILING PERSONAL FAITH AND SOCIAL ACTION
by Thomas Scarborough It has been said that one may be so heavenly minded as to be of no earthly good ¢â‚¬“ and similarly, that one may be so earthy minded as to be of no heavenly good. Theologians have described these two extremes as a ¢â‚¬Å“purely religious salvation ¢â‚¬ and a ¢â‚¬Å“purely politico-social liberation ¢â‚¬ . I […]
Reading is a right that needs to be addressed
Date August 19, 2012 Sam de Brito Recently, I met a young Perth woman who had had both her knees broken with a crowbar by her boyfriend. He followed this up by putting a gun to her head, demanding a reason why he shouldn’t kill her and, when her mother phoned her for the first […]
Humo[u]r
Three old timers chatting at restaurant! They sat down at a table while waiting to be served. One of them said; Hay Jake! Isn ¢â‚¬â„¢t this your 50th anniversary? Jake replies! Yep. Well, the old timer asked, what are you planning on doing? Jake replies, well! I remember taking my wife to Arizona on our 25th […]
The Dark Night of the Soul: Where is God when we Suffer?
Wednesday Koinonia 22/8/12: The Dark Night of the Soul: Where is God when we Suffer? (Led by Peggy Jones) ¢â‚¬Å“You, Lord, have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness. ¢â‚¬ 1 Kings 8:12 GNB – INTRODUCTION One of the most painful, perplexing yet powerful pathways on […]
Jew prays at the Wailing Wall for 60 years!!!
A journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, shuffling slowly up to the holy site. She watched him pray […]
Pray for the World August 20, 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 173 | Wed 22 Aug 2012 ——————————————————- PAKISTAN: INTOLERANCE GROWS; CHILD ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY (plus IRAN: Nadarkhani update) ——————————————————- by Elizabeth Kendal Pakistan celebrated its 65th birthday on 14 August. Founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a member of the Shia religious minority, Pakistan was initially […]
Iran: Time for the West to take stand…
Alan Howe From:Herald Sun August 20, 2012 12:00AM IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD HAS REPEATEDLY PREDICTED ISRAEL’S DEMISE. PICTURE: AP. AP IRAN’S armpit-scratching president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking in the excitable, florid manner of Arabs from whom he wishes to be differentiated, is a distraction. He may bark about killing all Jews it’s a common theme but in the […]
The Case for Gun Control
Note from Rowland: despite Zakaria’s apology for some plagiarism, this remains a cogent case for gun control… By Fareed Zakaria After the ghastly act of terrorism against a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, Americans are pondering how to stop gun violence. We have decided that it is, in the words of New York Times […]
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