Rowland Croucher
Meat Eating: Five Religious Approaches
Sightings 7/19/2012 Five Religious Approaches to Thinking about Meat Eating – Carol J. Adams When one introduces the topic of the ethics of meat eating, a debate about religion will often follow. Scriptural texts will be invoked either for or against the practice. In short order, the diets of the Buddha, Mohammed, or Jesus will be considered. […]
Henri Nouwen’s wisdom July 2012
Tending Our Own Wounds First Our own experience with loneliness, depression, and fear can become a gift for others, especially when we have received good care. As long as our wounds are open and bleeding, we scare others away. But after someone has carefully tended to our wounds, they no longer frighten us or […]
What a Wonderful World
A stunning commercial from the BBC www.youtube.com/embed/auSo1MyWf8g?rel=0<
Why would a health-worker refuse a flu shot?
Compulsory jabs not just a shot in the dark NICK MILLER 15 Jul, 2012 02:30 AM ABOUT five years ago, two young girls died in a Philadelphia hospital. They were being treated for cancer, and caught the flu. Their immune systems were suppressed by the assault of chemotherapy drugs, so the flu overwhelmed their bodies’ […]
Compassionate Listening
By James Stillwell Sometime when I teach a Bible study, I occasionally have a heckler or two in the audience. I don’t mean the funny guys in the balcony on the Muppets Show – those guys are hilarious. They laugh with you, not at your expense. What I mean is people who have an “axe […]
Same-Sex Marriage: the case against…
The case against legalising same-sex marriage Date July 15, 2012 Simon Mann Foes of change say too much is at stake. Photo: Reuters THEY say they are not against homosexuals. Nor are they bigots, or religious zealots or people hankering after a bygone era. What they are against is same-sex marriage. In an often vitriolic debate […]
Medicine Man Chief
Medicine Man Chief : published by two Kiwis, Renier Greeff & Trevor W. King in 2002, is a story about how humans live in tribes – ancient/modern, traditional/Western – and the dynamic roles of Chief and Medicine Men/ Women in the life of the tribe/group/church/nation. The publisher’s blurb says: Tribal life is the relational way human […]
PRAY FOR THE WORLD JUNE/JULY 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER July 30, 2012 ACCOUNTS OF FORCED ABORTIONS IN CHINA ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG U.K. DEBATES TEACHING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN SCHOOLS DREAMS AND VISIONS MOVING MUSLIMS TO CHRIST THE NEW INTOLERANCE – WHY MILITANT ATHEISTS HATE RELIGIOUS BELIEF SO MUCH PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM BOY […]
The Moral Case for Drones
The Moral Case for Drones Vahram Muradyan By SCOTT SHANE Published: July 14, 2012 Washington Related Times Topic: Predator Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) FOR streamlined, unmanned aircraft, drones carry a lot of baggage these days, along with their Hellfire missiles. Some people find the very notion of killer robots deeply disturbing. Their lethal operations inside sovereign […]
Worship: a short check-list
Some notes I took at a conference several years ago (I’ve forgotten who the speaker was). There are many other facets of corporate worship of course, but these few are thought-provoking: 1. Does worship affect us profoundly emotionally? (How is it that worshippers – in biblical times and since – sometimes ‘fall down’ to worship […]
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