Rowland Croucher
Pray for the World 23 January 2012
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MUST ALLOW THE CHURCH TO MAINTAIN A CENTRAL ROLE IN PUBLIC LIFE KIM JONG UN’S SWISS SCHOOL DAYS REVEALED BRUTAL WARLORD REPENTS AND TURNS INTO A MODERN DAY PAUL COUNTDOWN FOR 865 FILM TRANSLATIONS 2012 A YEAR OF PRAYER FOR SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH KOREA URGED TO HELP AVERT […]
C’est la vie (humo[u]r)
Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. ‘We don’t have half dozen nuggets,’ said the teenager at the counter. ‘You don’t?’ I replied. ‘We only have six, nine, or twelve,’ was the […]
WISDOM (Richard Rohr)
¢â‚¬Å“And I chose to have Wisdom rather than the light, because the splendor of her never yields to sleep. ¢â‚¬ ~ Wisdom 7:10 The beauty of the unconscious is that it knows a great deal ¢â‚¬”whether personal or collective ¢â‚¬”but it always knows that it does not know, cannot say, and dare not try to prove or assert […]
A German’s View on Islam (the power of an e-rumour)
This is a forwarded article alleged to have been written by Dr. Emanuel Tanay called “A German’s View on Islam.” The Truth: Dr. Emanuel Tanay is real and a holocaust survivor but he did not write this article, nor is he German. This is an opinion piece that appeared on the web site of […]
Capitalism’s darkest hour calls for youthful idealism (Nicholas Kristof)
January 21, 2012 A Pew Research Centre poll in December found only 50 per cent of Americans reacted positively to the term ‘capitalism’. Photo: Louie Douvis With greed running rampant, employees must fight the urge to feed from the trough, writes Nicholas Kristof. WHEN I spoke at Swarthmore College recently, I was startled by a question: is […]
Scientology: Prayers and paranoia
Prayers and paranoia Barney Zwartz January 7, 2012 A bust of L. Ron Hubbard sits in the Church of Scientology at Ascot Vale. Photo: Angela Wylie THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY By Hugh B. Urban Princeton University Press, $41.95 JOURNALISTS tend to be hostile towards Scientology, whereas academics tend to be sympathetic, Hugh B. Urban suggests in […]
Humo[u]r
It’s all in the punctuation: An English professor wrote the words, “Woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly. The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.” The women wrote: “Woman: Without her, man is nothing.” ======================= Wine does not make you FAT; it makes […]
The Parents Poem (Robert Bly)
Robert Bly The Parents Poem It ¢â‚¬â„¢s a good idea to figure what to do with parents. One man I knew, after caring for them for years, Led them across a busy street ¢â‚¬”two lines of traffic. He started a lost colony for his parents. He bought them big boots and pith helmets. He sent his parents […]
INDIA: TENSIONS SOARING AS CHRISTIANS CHARGED IN KASHMIR
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 142 | Wed 18 Jan 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal TRUTH: India-administrated Kashmir has a population of 12.5 million (2011 census). Christianity is growing across Kashmir. In 1990 there were some 12,000 Christians; by 2000 that number had risen to around 20,000; Operation World 2010 Edition reports ‘more than double […]
Gay marriage: another view
Gay vows not so queer Paul Monk December 8, 2011OPINION Illustration: John Spooner. Religion’s baulking at homosexual marriage is utterly sanctimonious. The reaction by conservative religious leaders and political commentators to the decision by the ALP on gay marriage has been that this tilt will imperil the party at the next federal election. It may […]
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