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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Cleansing the Call (Cross-cultural missionaries’ survival)

On March 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

by Mirjam Scarborough I write about a holy mystery: the call that God extends to some to serve him in ministry or missions. The Catholics call it vocation. For them it would include the call to the priesthood, or the call to the religious life of nuns and monks: that special call that sets the […]

Old Age

On March 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

  Old Age   Three elderly golfers are walking down the fairway.   “Sixty is the worst age to be,”  says the 60-year-old,   “You always feel like you have to pee.   And most of the time nothing happens.”     “Ah, that’s nothing,” says the 70-year-old.   “When you’re 70, you don’t have a bowel movement any more. […]

M Scott Peck’s notorious paragraph from The Road Less Traveled

On March 17, 2012 ⋅ One comment

I put this request onto my Facebook page: Another request for help with some research… There’s a paragraph in Scott Peck’s The Road Less Traveled about adultery: something to the effect that if an affair with someone else was not abusive, was mutual/consensual – even a therapist  with a client – and he could be persuaded […]

The making of a modern soldier

On March 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Giles Fraser March 17, 2012 Can the psychological conditioning of soldiers explain the massacre of 16 civilians by a lone US soldier in Afghanistan?  Photo: Tanya Lake IN 1947, the official US historian of the Second World War, Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, published  Men Against Fire. Marshall’s astonishing contention, debated vigorously ever since, was that about 75 […]

Gay & Lesbian friends: How to Relate to an Imperfect church

On March 16, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

HOW TO RELATE TO AN IMPERFECT CHURCH (Notes of a talk to the Melbourne chapter of Freedom2B – 16 March 2012) BUT FIRST:  ¢â‚¬   I ¢â‚¬â„¢m ignorant about many things  ¢â‚¬“ I ¢â‚¬â„¢m a  ¢â‚¬Ëœpractising heterosexual ¢â‚¬â„¢ (52 years 2 months), not a scientist, psychologist, anthropologist, biblical scholar, Catholic/Eastern Orthodox…  ¢â‚¬   I do know a little bit about […]

Little Mosque on the Prairie

On March 16, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

  Sightings 3/15/2012   Believing, Belonging, and Laughing in Little Mosque on the Prairie   — Lauren E. Osborne   The Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie is running its sixth and final season. The show first aired on the CBC (Canada’s national broadcasting network) in 2007, drawing record numbers of viewers for a […]

LAOS: CHRISTIANS THREATENED — RECANT OR LEAVE

On March 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 150 | Wed 14 Mar 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal Laos is a Communist-ruled South-east Asian state known for its abysmal human rights record, particularly its appalling prison conditions and systematic use of torture. Christians in this poor, landlocked nation face intensive persecution. Generally the religious persecution occurs outside the […]

Humo[u]r

On March 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Jay went to a psychiatrist.  ¢â‚¬Å“Doc, he said,  ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve got trouble. Every time I get into bed I think there is somebody under it. I get under the bed; I think there ¢â‚¬â„¢s somebody on top of it. Top, under, under top. I ¢â‚¬â„¢m going crazy! ¢â‚¬   ¢â‚¬Å“Just put yourself in my hands for two years, ¢â‚¬  said the […]

Sleeping tablets: will they shorten your life?

On March 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

There have been several articles in news releases recently warning that ‘a study showed that sleeping pills were linked to early death… Commonly used sleeping pills, or “hypnotics”, such as temazepam and zolpidem, which are prescribed for short-term insomnia, are associated with more than a fourfold risk of death. The large-scale study, by the Scripps […]

Richard Rohr: ‘Letting Go’

On March 12, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

THE PATH OF DESCENT The spirituality behind the Twelve-Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous is a  ¢â‚¬Å“low Church ¢â‚¬  approach to evangelization and healing that is probably our only hope in a suffering world of six-and-a-half billion people. Our suffering is psychological, relational and addictive: the suffering of people who are comfortable on the outside but oppressed […]

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