Rowland Croucher
A Cowboy named Bud (and more…)
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni ® suit, Gucci ® shoes, RayBan ® sunglasses and YSL ® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I […]
Giving Up Golf
I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner. I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, “If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?” “No, […]
Today’s Humo[u]r
Men Should Listen . A man is driving up a steep, narrow mountain road. A woman is driving down the same road. As they pass each other the woman leans out the window and yells, “PIG!!” The man immediately leans out his window and replies, “WITCH!!” They each continue on their way, and as the […]
Christian books that should NOT be published.
A little warning: sometimes the ads which appear above our articles are, to say the least, suggestive. We do our best to cleanse our website of these: but they are our only source of income. Thanks for your understanding! If you know these preachers/authors, you’ll see the funny/clever side of all this Christian books […]
New Wine Before Bed
A single glass at night could mean a peaceful, uninterrupted night ¢â‚¬â„¢s sleep. NEW Wine for Seniors. I kid you not… California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic. It is expected to reduce the number […]
Marriage Equality
From Rowland: I’m preparing to write a major article on Marriage Equality for Gays/Lesbians – partly in response to the quote from me used by The Age supporting the idea. Here I’ll put a pot-pourri of material I’m collecting on the subject: ~~ Why I’m treated like a second-class citizen: Justice Michael Kirby May 3, […]
Ethiopian eunuch: Early church welcomed queers
For the illustrations, visit http://jesusinlove.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/ethiopian-eunuch-early-church-welcomed.html Ethiopian eunuch: Early church welcomed queers Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, detail from 11th-century illuminated manuscript (Wikimedia Commons) A black gay man was the first non-Jewish convert to Christianity, according to progressive interpretations of the Ethiopian eunuch ¢â‚¬â„¢s story in the Bible. The term ¢â‚¬Å“eunuch ¢â‚¬ probably included a variety of sexual minorities […]
Henri Nouwen… more
Sharing Freely Our Knowledge Often we think that we do not know enough to be able to teach others. We might even become hesitant to tell others what we know, out of fear that we won’t have anything left to say when we are asked for more. This mind-set makes us anxious, secretive, possessive, and […]
Stuart Edser: Being Gay, Being Christian, You can be both
Stuart Edser: Being Gay, Being Christian, You can be both (Exisle Publishing 2012). [Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG] My journey out of Pharisaism on gay/lesbian issues began in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV studio back in the 1970s. A ¢â‚¬Ëœconservative evangelical ¢â‚¬â„¢ pastor, I was then Victoria ¢â‚¬â„¢s spokesperson for The Festival of Light. […]
AFRICA: CHRISTIANS TARGETED FROM EAST TO WEST
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 157 | Wed 02 May 2012 by Elizabeth Kendal Security is deteriorating rapidly for Christians along Africa’s notorious ethnic-religious fault-line: roughly between the 5 to 10 degrees north parallels. Genocidal Islamic jihad has displaced Christians in Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Mali and Ivory Coast. Multitudes of predominantly Christian, […]
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