Rowland Croucher
The Violinist at the Metro Station
A STORY OF AWARENESS By: Kristof Burm A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the […]
Wandering medicine man deals in cures and hope
Amrit Dhillon February 25, 2012 Omkar Nath provides free medicine.Photo: Amrit Dhilon EVERY day, at an age when most men are curled up in their armchairs, full of sleep, Omkar Nath travels more than 10 kilometres by foot and by bus all over Delhi, begging people to give him their unused or surplus medicines so […]
Happiness: surely that’s not all there is to the meaning of life
ROSS GITTINS February 22, 2012 ‘You could do yourself a mischief trying to live like Dr Pangloss.’ How about the meaning of life? People forget relationships are the core of our wellbeing. FED up with all the wrangling and speculation over who should be leading the Labor Party? Want something more substantial? How about the […]
SUDAN & SYRIA: MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS FACING DEATH
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 147 | Wed 22 Feb 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal * SUDAN: NUBA NEED BREAKTHROUGH IN FOOD & SECURITY As reported in RLPB 145, the UN estimates that some half-million displaced predominantly Christian African (non-Arab) Nuba will face famine conditions by March. Not content to decimate the Nuba by means […]
LOVE OF SELF: small group study
Notes for a Reflection/Bible Study for our Wednesday Koinonia group 22 March 2012. Although they’re rough notes/headings, you’ll get the idea. I’ve tried to summarize about 600 pages of pre-reading on the subject into one page! Feel free to use this in your small group. A. INTRODUCTION — Love of self ¢â‚¬“ command or assumption? – Thesis: [Move from] […]
PROOF-READING: a dying art
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next […]
Ten Irrational Ideas that are responsible for most unhappiness (Albert Ellis)
10 Irrational Beliefs ¢â‚¬“ Albert Ellis by ‘CHRIS’ (September 2007) Albert Ellis, psychologist and psychotherapist, died this August, and since Time Magazine butchered his obituary mercilessly, I thought I ¢â‚¬â„¢d correct it with a myspace bulletin (HA!). Here are his list of ten Irrational Beliefs that are responsible for most unhappiness. He spent his career trying to get people to […]
The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World Feb 6, 2012 From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith. We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring ¢â‚¬â„¢s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, […]
Religion of Atheism
Sightings 2/20/2012 Religion of Atheism — Martin E. Marty Notice: This is an alert, not a review. Repeat: This is an alert, not a review. In our sights this week ¢â‚¬”they would be hard to miss ¢â‚¬”are notices of Alain de Botton ¢â‚¬â„¢s Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer ¢â‚¬â„¢s Guide to the Uses of Religion. The ethic of reviewers demands that […]
Pray for the World Feb. 20, 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER A NEW DAY DAWNS FOR BURMA (MYANMAR) BOKO HARAM DECLARES WAR IN NIGERIA CHRISTIANS UNDER-REPRESENTED IN NEW EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT ELIMINATING FITNA IN INDIAN ADMINISTERED KASHMIR AL-QAEDA ON THE MOVE IN YEMAN MIDDLE CLASS BECOMING ECONOMICALLY POWERFUL IN INDIA 40 DAYS OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PAKISTAN 20th FEBRUARY TO 30th MARCH […]
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