Rowland Croucher
Foreign Aid is a Waste of Money
As long as the rich can speculate on food, the world’s poor go hungry July 01, 2012 WHEN we think of overseas aid, we think of helping people who need it. The government says aid helps people overcome poverty. But does it? Obviously, to overcome poverty we have to overcome the causes of poverty, and […]
Lying: we all do it (even lying to ourselves!)
DECEPTION Author: BY ANDREW STEPHENS Date: 04/06/2011 Publication: The Age From the well-intentioned falsehood to the baldfaced whopper, untruths find their way into every conversation. Social bonds are sealed on insincerity and punishments avoided in the blink of a lie. But as we stray from the path of absolute honesty, do our little white lies […]
Future forecasting: The Year 2000?
Sightings 7/2/2012 The Year 2000? — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Forecaster of the Future, Is Dead at 81 ¢â‚¬ headlines the obituary of Anthony J. Wiener in the New York Times. He and Herman Kahn in 1967 co-authored The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, a book much favored by then-in-vogue ¢â‚¬Å“futurists ¢â‚¬ and many of the […]
Pray for the World June/July 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER CHILD MARRIAGE FLOURISHES IN INDIA AND SAUDI ARABIA ‘BABY BOXES’ IN EUROPE SETTING AN ALARMING TREND GROWING NUMBER OF U.S. CITIES MAKE IT HARD TO BE HOMELESS AS ECONOMIC CRISIS BITES EMIR REJECTS DEATH PENALTY FOR BLASPHEMY IN KUWAIT FAMILY NET WORTH DROPS 39% IN U.S. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BLOCKED IN […]
Facebook is not your friend!!!
You might not like it, but you and Facebook are worst friends forever Annabel Crabb July 1, 2012 Your funky pal is copyrighting the words Face and Book – and using your life for commercial gain. THE news last week that Facebook had bumped millions of unsuspecting users onto new and unwanted ”Facebook” email addresses […]
Tips for better sleep
by ABC Health and Wellbeing Poor sleep not only leaves you feeling lousy, it can affect your health. Check out our tips for ideas on how to improve your sleep Published 28/06/2012 ISTOCKPHOTO Good sleep is essential for good health. Lack of sleep can affect your immune system, mood and increase your chances of developing […]
Australia needs the carbon tax
Age/Sydney Morning Herald editorial June 30, 2012 Date: June 30 2012 ‘AFTER all,” Scarlett O’Hara assures herself in the concluding scene of Gone with the Wind, ”tomorrow is another day”. It is advice Australians should take to heart, having been long assailed with dire forecasts that tomorrow, July 1, will not in fact be just another […]
Leadership just twittered away
Thomas Friedman June 30, 2012 TRAVELLING in Europe last week, it seemed as if every other conversation ended with some form of this question: why does it feel like so few leaders are capable of inspiring their people to meet the challenges of our day? There are many explanations for this global leadership deficit, […]
THE PORNOGRAPHY PANDEMIC
By Patrick A Trueman President and CEO of Morality In Media, Former Chief Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice Josh McDowell, noted Christian apologist, evangelist and author of numerous books on the effect of cultural decay on our youth, calls pornography the number one killer of the spiritual lives of youth. He […]
A Faith to Live By: Conversations about faith with twenty-five of the world’s leading spiritual teachers
Roland Ashby, A Faith to Live By: Conversations about faith with twenty-five of the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s leading spiritual teachers (Anglican Media/Mosaic Press 2012). This book, for me, was a ¢â‚¬Ëœpage-turner ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬“ a marvellous collection of concentrated wisdom extracted by an interviewer who is both editor of an award-winning Anglican (Diocese of Melbourne) newspaper, but who ¢â‚¬â„¢s also […]
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