Rowland Croucher
Rape Victims: Hebrew/Muslim law
You Broke It, You Buy It: A Divine Mandate By Thom Stark So the news has just broken that a Moroccan girl has committed suicide after being ordered by a judge to marry her rapist. Now before some self-righteous Christians begin mouthing off about how unenlightened Islamic culture is, let ¢â‚¬â„¢s go to the source: ¢â‚¬Å“If […]
Pray for the World April 10 2012
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 154 | Wed 11 Apr 2012 —————————————— MALI: CHRISTIANS FLEE IMPOSITION OF SHARIA (plus: a Nigeria update) —————————————— by Elizabeth Kendal Having seized the capitals of the three main northern provinces in three days — Kidal, on 30 March, Gao on 31 March and Timbuktu on 1 April — […]
Richard Rohr: devotions
FOLLOWING THE MYSTICS If you keep listening to the love, if you keep receiving the love, trusting the love ¢â‚¬”even with all your limitations, with all your unworthiness, with all your limited intellect or whatever you feel holds you back ¢â‚¬”you start to experience within yourself a sense of possibility. Whatever life is inviting you into, you […]
Aspirin: the pendulum’s swung back again (and we’re taking a small tablet each day again)
The better pill BY: MICHAEL HANLON From: The Australian April 07, 2012 Given that it has been suspected for half a century that aspirin can fight cancer, it is odd that there has not been more research into this wonder drug. MOST medical breakthroughs that sound too good to be true are just that. There […]
CHRISTMAS, DIG? (with some nice lines about joy)
CHRISTMAS, DIG? © Martin Fawkes 2012 I’m told Swarovski is nice But surely Cartier is better Crystals grown in test-tubes Versus diamonds grown by pressure If Christmas is coming What’s inside the wrapping paper A gift to last today Or a gift to last forever? What is substantial What is solid? What is vapour? […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theologian, Christian, martyr
Ten theses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer: theologian, Christian, martyr By Ray Anderson, Fuller Theological Seminary 1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian theologian. Rather, one should say that he became a Christian theologian. Eberhard Bethge, his former student and biographer, notes the year 1933 as a ¢â‚¬Å“transition from theologian to Christian. ¢â‚¬ In 1936 Dietrich wrote to a […]
Atheism vs Religion: Dawkins vs. Pell
Professor DAWKINS vs Cardinal PELL: ABC’s Q&A last night… (9 April 2012) Who watched it? What do you make of the 24% ‘yes’ vs.76% ‘no’ to the question ‘Has religion made the world a better place?’ (20,000 respondents)? Cardinal Pell suggested yes, there’d be atheists in heaven; and at some point in the evolutionary process […]
Religion and mystery…
A tuning fork for the soul BY: NIKKI GEMMELL From: The Australian April 07, 2012 WHAT happened a decade ago? A veneration of … what? Mystery. A veering towards it like an ocean liner subtly altering course for a new destination in the great ocean of life. Yet the destination’s unknown. Once I worked at […]
Emails – waste of time and money?
From Time, April 9, 2012 (p. 42): Corporate email storage is growing 20% to 25% a year, thanks in part to heavier file sharing, according to data consultancy Osterman Research. The data dump sucks $997 billion in productivity out of US workers annually, according to research firm Basex. ‘Email is an inherently poor tool for […]
The Arab Spring and democracy
A Region at War with Its History By Fareed Zakaria April 16, 2012 One year after it captured the world’s imagination, the Arab Spring is looking less appealing by the week. The promise of a new birth of freedom in the Middle East has been followed by a much messier reality, particularly in Egypt, where […]
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