Rowland Croucher
New Year (Richard Rohr)
For the New Year New Year’s Day RESOLVE TO LIVE AUTHENTICALLY IN 2012 ¢â‚¬Å“Turn around and believe the good news! ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬“ Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ first preached words, Mark 1:15 The Christian life is a matter of becoming who we already are, and all that we truly are! Can you imagine that? […]
NIGERIA: BOKO HARAM THREATENS CHRISTIANS
Update January 10, 2012: Also NIGERIA UPDATE (urgent) On Monday 2 January Boko Haram issued an ultimatum giving Southerners and Christians three days to leave the North or face further violence (see RLPB 140). They are fulfilling their threat. On 4 January bombs exploded in Maiduguri (Borno) and Damaturu (Yobe) killing 20. On 5 January […]
Movie Review – The Iron Lady
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com There is a sense of irony in the fact that this movie, told from the point of view of an ageing, frail, and dementia-suffering former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, is called The Iron Lady. Her frailty proves again that life catches up with everyone in the end. […]
Humo[u]r
A circus owner walked into a bar to see everyone crowded around a table watching a little show. On the table was an upside down pot and a duck tap dancing on it. The circus owner was so impressed that he offered to buy the duck from its owner. After some wheeling and dealing […]
Radical Islamic Revival
Boko Haram, the Arab ‘Spring’, and the radical Islamic Revival Posted: 30 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST This past week, as I read the grim news of Christmas killings in Nigeria, there came back to me the words of Shaikh Khalid Yasin, an African-American convert to Islam and globe trotting preacher, who visited Australia back in […]
Ethical behaviour more than just about following rules
Judith Bessant November 30, 2011 Public trust has been eroded, but there is a way to remedy this. If all the plastering of codes of ethics and value statements on the walls of meeting rooms in corporate and government organisations is anything to go by, we may well draw the conclusion we are living […]
Being a woman in Saudi Arabia
Saudi women enjoy a small win – in the lingerie department Doyle McManus December 29, 2011 ‘If this modest wave of liberalisation continues, they may even get fitting rooms.’ Progress in the kingdom comes slowly, and not at all surely. Women in Saudi Arabia won a small but promising victory this year. No, they are […]
A Prayer of Trust and Abandonment
A prayer attributed to St Brendan of Clonfert: Shall I abandon, O King of mysteries, the soft comforts of home? Shall I turn my back on my native land, and turn my face towards the sea? Shall I put myself wholly at your mercy, without silver, without a horse, without fame, without honour? Shall I […]
25 LISTS OF EVERYTHING INTERESTING/IMPORTANT
Dear friends I’m making 25 lists of 25 important/memorable/helpful items/ideas. Anything missing? We’ll have to factor it in to one of these (watch this article): 25 LISTS OF 25 1 MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE WHO’VE EVER LIVED 2 MOST MEMORABLE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE 3 GREATEST CHRISTIAN HYMNS/SONGS 4 GREATEST SERMONS EVER PREACHED 5 GREATEST […]
Australia’s Labor Party and Gay Marriage
A lethal threat lies behind Labor’s reversal on gay marriage PETER COSTELLO December 07, 2011 IN 2004 Parliament legislated a formal definition of marriage as ”the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. The amendment was contained in a bill that sailed through the […]
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