Rowland Croucher
Shirley & Marcy
Shirley & Marcy A mother was concerned about her kindergarten son, Timmy, walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe. So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked […]
Work vs Play
In 1923, Who Was: 1. President of the largest steel company? 2.. President of the largest gas company? 3. President of the New York stock Exchange? 4. Greatest wheat speculator? 5. President of the Bank of International Settlement? 6. Great Bear of Wall Street? These men were considered some of the worlds most successful of […]
Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell – review
Charlie Campbell’s panoramic survey of humanity’s tendency to blame others might just help buck your ideas up Christopher Bray The Observer, Sunday 25 September 2011 If only ¢â‚¬ ¦ Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Remember the big scene in On the Waterfront, when former boxer Terry Malloy (played by Marlon Brando) […]
The Power of Love
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.” ¢â‚¬“ Elbert Hubbard See here, and be inspired! http://www.flickspire.com/m/Share_This/PowerOfLove?lsid=3143fb15b0801617a11d1c93d62587aa
Married for the 4th time
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80 and then about her new husband’s occupation. “He’s a funeral director,” she answered. “Interesting,” the newsman thought. […]
Clever Definitions
READ SLOWLY—-IT MAY TAKE A WHILE FOR THE LIGHT TO SHINE, BUT THESE ARE RATHER CLEVER! 1. ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds 2. AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tried to do 3. BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage 4. BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with 5. CONTROL: A short, ugly […]
Why Young People Are Fleeing Conservative Evangelicalism
Some leave because they oppose the church’s doctrinal stance. Others are turned off by its hostility to science. Others reject the limitations placed on sex. February 9, 2012 | The results of a five-year study of the Millennial Generation ¢â‚¬”people born between 1982 and 1993 ¢â‚¬”are in. Thanks to the Barna Group, a 28-year-old, California-based, Christian research firm, we […]
Police officer chased ‘himself’ for 20 minutes
An undercover police officer in the UK spent 20 minutes ”chasing himself round the streets” by mistake. 09 February 2012 An undercover police officer in the UK spent 20 minutes “chasing himself round the streets”. The plain-clothed officer – who has not been named – was looking for suspects in a town in Sussex that […]
Ex-Pastors: Why do they drop out?
Leadership is Influence is Dropout (Part 1) by Thomas Scarborough Dropout among ministers in the USA, by various estimates, lies between 80% and 95%. The second figure is widely accepted, and implies that the number of ministers who remain in ministry halves every ten years. The purpose of this article, and of that which is […]
SUDAN & BURMA: CHRISTIAN REFUGEES IN PERIL
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 145 | Wed 08 Feb 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal SUDAN: NUBA GENOCIDE LOOMS When Khartoum began ethnic cleansing South Kordofan in June 2011, there were an estimated one million non-Arab, non-Muslim, predominantly Christian Nuba in the state. Today more than half that number have been either killed or displaced. […]
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