Rowland Croucher
Pray for the World December 19, 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER This is the last International News for 2011. ISLAMIC RIOTERS ATTACK CHRISTIAN BUSINESSES IN NORTHERN IRAQ PRESIDENT OBAMA PUSHES SUPPORT FOR HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS AS OFFICIAL U.S. INTERNATIONAL POLICY INDIA AIDS STRATEGY FOCUSES ON ABSTINENCE ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL HEALED OF MASSIVE BRAIN TUMOUR AFTER PRAYER CHURCH OF SCOTLAND REJECTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE […]
Prayer for the New Year
Thought for the new year… Dear God, My prayer for the new year is for a fat bank account & a thin body. Please don’t mix these up like you did last year. AMEN!
Coping with Grief (John Claypool)
John Claypool “Hopeful Coping with Grief” December 1 , 2002 Biography Dr. John Claypool is rector emeritus of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and theologian-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. John is the author of many books and is one of America’s great preachers. ~~ “Hopeful Coping with Grief” At least […]
RESTAURANT FRIVOLITIES…
Today Jan and I enjoyed the special $15 seniors ¢â‚¬â„¢ fish/wine/Bavarian apple meal at the Pancake Parlour. Some conversations with others (blame the wine): Waitress: How are you finding everything? Moi: I just open my eyes and look for it Waitress: Can I take these plates away? Yes they ¢â‚¬â„¢re our special Christmas gift to you Waitress: […]
Roger Williams’ molecules and the resurrection
Question for young theologians (of all ages :-): Which molecules belong to whom at the resurrection? ~~ Friend in church told me he ¢â‚¬â„¢s reading about John Brown. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown’s_Body for an interesting summary of the history of the famous song ¢â‚¬ ¦ Anyway, somehow the conversation turned to the founder of the first Baptist Church in America […]
Tongue Lashings
Barney Zwartz December 11, 2011 The exchanges of Winston Churchill are legendary. Ever thought about the perfect comeback . . . too late? Barney Zwartz shares his favourite putdowns, insults and one-liners. ‘WILKES, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox,” thundered the Earl of Sandwich. The […]
100 BEST NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
ULYSSESby James Joyce THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner CATCH-22by Joseph Heller DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck UNDER […]
Atheism in America
Sightings 12/12/2011 — Martin E. Marty Picking up from where we left off last week [??? where?] on “practical atheism:” Atheism shows up in our Sightings on occasion, partly as a refreshing alternative to the over-covered examples of ¢â‚¬Å“religion-in-American-public-life ¢â‚¬ which crowd the cable television channels and headlines: you know, like stories of the piety of quarterback […]
Christian Leadership
(how well do we do this?) ‘What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well’ (2 Timothy 2:2) ‘What we have heard and known for ourselves must not be withheld from our descendants, but be handed on by us to the […]
Today’s riddle for Seniors
*****You are on a Horse, galloping at a constant speed. On your right side is a sharp drop off.And on your left side is an Elephant traveling at the same speed as you.Directly in front of you is a galloping Kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it.Behind you is a Lion running at […]
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