Rowland Croucher
Can You Be Too Happy?
Do you think you can be too happy? That seems like a crazy question and surely the answer would have to be “no, you can ¢â‚¬â„¢t be too happy.” Studies show that there is a darker side to feeling good, and the pursuit of happiness can sometimes make you, well, less happy. Apparently too much cheerfulness […]
Hanoi (Hanoi???) ponders easing rules on same-sex unions
Date: August 11, 2012 Helen Clark Activists and observers have noticed a seachange in the past five years. Photo: AFP AFTER two women wed in Vietnam’s south in 1999, the country outlawed gay marriage. But now there are signs that it may become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex unions. Last month, Justice Minister […]
Most days, a woman somewhere in Columbia has acid thrown into her face
Photographer ¢â‚¬â„¢s diary: Shooting an acid attack victim By Carlos Villalon 8th June 2012 The following is a photographer ¢â‚¬â„¢s account of the challenges and surprises he encountered while shooting the photos for our recent story on Colombian victims of acid attacks: When I first met Consuelo Cordoba, I could tell it was going to be a difficult assignment. […]
Australian Olympic sports: the last word
Harder to stand out in a crowded pool Date: August 11, 2012 Jake Niall Senior sports writer for The Age Are we being too hard on our Australian swimmers following their single-gold-medal performance? Photo: Stuart Walmsley ONE former champion, Susie O’Neill, questioned the Australian swimmers’ work rate. Another, famed butterflier Geoff Huegill, smelt a lack of ”team […]
John Pilger: How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past
Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s sports administration and Olympian ¢â‚¬Å“stars ¢â‚¬ , from Nick D ¢â‚¬â„¢Arcy to John Booth, are sad relics of a racially biased past that produced Shane Gould, Evonne Goolagong and Cathy Freeman. BY JOHN PILGER 08 AUGUST 2012 Cathy Freeman crosses the line to win gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Photograph: Getty Images The ferries that ply […]
Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing
An Idiot ¢â‚¬â„¢s Overview Of Why Western Capitalism Is Crashing By Alan Hart December 08, 2011 “Information Clearing House” — The idiot of the headline is me in the sense that I am not an economist and have never had any formal association with study of the theory and practise of economics, but ¢â‚¬ ¦ I began to […]
Mantram Handbook
Note from Rowland: I’m reading Eknath Easwaran’s brilliant book on the Beatitudes – Original Goodness – in my devotions… The Mantram Handbook Author(s) Eknath Easwaran Language English original, plus translations: Bahasa Indonesian,[1] Dutch,[2] German,[3][4][5][6] Hungarian,[7] Italian,[8] Lithuanian,[9] Spanish,[10][11][12] Telugu Publisher Nilgiri Press; others Publication date 1977 (original); 2009; others Pages 260 (1977) ISBN 978-1-58638-028-1 The Mantram […]
Why is coming second such a disaster?
Seconds count, but all we really want is first RICHARD HINDS August 04, 2012 In Atlanta 16 years ago, a huge billboard prominently displayed in the Olympic city spruiking the wares of a sneaker company proclaimed: ¢â‚¬Ëœ ¢â‚¬ËœSecond is the first loser. ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬â„¢ Thus, upon this supposedly altruistic event was imposed the very American notion that second place […]
Paul’s [High] Christology
There is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (1 Corinthians 8:6). A leading Evangelical Scholar (Gordon Fee) comments here .
Missiology: Sodality and Modality: The Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission
Sheffield Mission Communities’ Conference Monday, 2 April, 2012 The ecclesial landscape is changing and new mission movements are growing out of, or in some cases, away from traditional church models ¢â‚¬“ reports Christian Today. The challenge is: how old and new can grow long into the future in a way that allows them to complement, […]
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