Rowland Croucher
Old Age :-)
TODAY IS THE OLDEST YOU’VE EVER BEEN, YET THE YOUNGEST YOU’LL EVER BE, SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT LASTS. Observations On Growing Older ~Your Kids are becoming you…and you don’t like them…but your grandchildren are Perfect! ~Going Out is good.. Coming Home is better! ~You Forget names ….. But it’s OK because other […]
Humo[u]r
A new business was opening, and one of the owner ¢â‚¬â„¢s friends sent flowers for the occasion. But when the owner read the card with the flowers, it said. ¢â‚¬Å“Rest in Peace ¢â‚¬ The owner was little upset and called the florist to complain. After he had told the florist about the obvious mistake, the florist said, […]
Clergy Self-Care (Roy Oswald)
‘Unfortunately, the majority of us clergy were sent to our places of ministry with a minimal amount of support or training in spiritual formation. Somehow, between courses in theology and the Bible, plus daily chapel attendance, we budding pastors were supposed to develop into spiritual giants. Yet, in the three years I spent in a […]
Mormons, Romney and People of Color
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/31/2012 The Wrong Side of White — W. Paul Reeve The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has consistently found itself on the wrong side of white. In a recent New York Times article, ¢â‚¬Å“Black Mormons and […]
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea. But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home! Twilight […]
Amnesty International: Persecution of Religious Minorities
ON 24 MAY 2012 Ethnic and religious minorities have been the targets of killings, torture and ill-treatment in the past 12 months, according to Amnesty International, which released on May 24 its annual report on human rights violations. ¢â‚¬Å“Failed leadership has gone global in the last year, with politicians responding to protests with brutality or […]
Political philosophy: What Money Can’t Buy
Michael Sandel: ‘We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning’ Sunday 27 May 2012 The political philosophy professor on his new book, What Money Can’t Buy, and why economics needs to be seen not as a science but a moral philosophy Something curious happened when I tried to […]
Andrew Greeley, by his friend Martin Marty
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/28/2012 Father Andrew Greeley — Martin E. Marty Sightings does not conventionally review books, but one book has been on my desk for months as a prompt for something on which I wanted to comment. This week, fortuitously, friend […]
Richard Rohr – more wisdom
THE MATERNAL FACE OF GOD Historically speaking, in our culture the role of men has been to create, to make new things, to fix broken things, and to defend us from things which could hurt us. All of these are wonderful and necessary roles for the preservation of the human race. However, most children saw […]
The (Eight) Varieties of Biblical Marriage
April 29, 2009 by Vorjack We hear a lot about ¢â‚¬Å“biblical marriage ¢â‚¬ these days. Some of us might not be clear on what that means. The website Religious Tolerance has provided a helpful article on the types of marriage found in the pages of the bible. Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s a summary: Polygynous Marriage Probably the most common […]
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