Rowland Croucher
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Claiming the Sacredness of Our Being Are we friends with ourselves? Do we love who we are? These are important questions because we cannot develop good friendships with others unless we have befriended ourselves. How then do we befriend ourselves? We have to start by acknowledging the truth of ourselves. We are beautiful but also […]
Desecrating Christian and Jewish Graves in Libya
Posted: 05 Mar 2012 06:26 AM PST Many commentators have expressed outrage at the recent destruction of British and Canadian war graves in Benghazi, Libya (in this YouTube Video). I watched the video and saw, not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses. The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with […]
You teachers out there: be inspired by this!
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The Book of Revelation: only just ‘made it’ into the NT canon
Sightings 3/5/2012 Revelation — Martin E. Marty The weekend just past found some of the oldest things in Western religion to be the subject of newest concern and debate. One instance: a book of the Christian Bible, the Apocalypse or Revelation of St. John, which is the main review in The New Yorker and the main book excerpt […]
Pray for the World March 5, 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER YOUNG PEOPLE MEET IN POWERHOUSES OF PRAYER ACROSS AFRICA U.K. POLL SUGGESTS WEAK LINK BETWEEN FAITH AND PRACTICE KASHMIRI CHRISTIANS FORCED TO REVERT TO ISLAM WILL THERE BE A GENOCIDE IN SYRIA? NORTH AFRICAN CHRISTIANS RISK EVERYTHING BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TO TAKE ACTION ON SCANDAL OF ALCOHOL ABUSE MILITANT SECULARISM TAKING […]
Women: Beasts of burden: we really haven’t come very far, baby
(I may not always agree with Germaine Greer – but I do here. And I love her feistiness! Rowland Croucher, March 5, 2012). International Women ¢â‚¬â„¢s Day will be upon us again next Thursday. A whole day out of the 365 that has been set aside for women. Disabled people, mountains, diabetics, the ozone layer, victims […]
Azaria’s ghost can be heard as you pass the big red rock
Martin Flanagan March 3, 2012 Lindy Chamberlain and her daughter, Azaria, shortly before Azaria’s disappearance. THE treatment of Lindy Chamberlain was the closest I have come to seeing a witch being burned alive. Recently, I read a remark she made when asked about the abducted English child Madeleine McCann, the treatment of whose parents by […]
Evil incarnate
(This story proves the point of M Scott Peck’s thesis in People of the Lie) ~~ Rotten to the core, and now rotting in jail John Silvester March 3, 2012 Photo: Simon Schluter Most creatures have some redeeming features. Killer Bandali Debs, 58, is the exception. THE years have not been kind to Bandali Debs. […]
Is the Bible sexist?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4866842.ece Delilah is dangerous, Jezebel, wicked, and as for Eve… Whether they are temptresses, harlots or simply Old Testament chattels, women (it is often argued) get a raw deal in Scripture, with the odd saintly exception (the virgin Mary). But new research into Biblical women shows that the majority receive positive or matter-of-fact write-ups. Words […]
God Behaving Badly
God Behaving Badly, by David T. Lamb (IVP, 2011) The biggest conundrum for thoughtful ¢â‚¬Ëœpeople of the book ¢â‚¬â„¢ (Muslims, Christians, Jews) ¢â‚¬“ and for their critics ¢â‚¬“ is how to make sense of a God who issues hundreds of sometimes strange edicts, many of which carry ¢â‚¬Ëœsmitable ¢â‚¬â„¢ penalties or even a death sentence… A God […]
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