Rowland Croucher
Humo[u]r: some sillinesses to lighten your day
Doctor, Doctor You’ve got to help me – I just can’t stop my hands shaking! Doc: Do you drink a lot? Not really – I spill most of it! ==================== Doctor, Doctor Have you got something for a bad headache? Doc: Of course. Just take this hammer and smash yourself in the head. Then you’ll […]
God is with you (Richard Rohr)
To live [in cooperation with God] is to live inside of an unexplainable hope, because your life will now feel much larger than your own. In fact, it is not just your own life, and yet, paradoxically, you are more ¢â‚¬Å“you ¢â‚¬ than ever before! I hope you have experienced that, if just for a moment. […]
7 billion human beings: where do you fit in?
Go here, and enter your birth date: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 1500: the population is estimated at 500 million November 2011: 7,000,000,000 I AM HERE: When I was born, I was the: 2,238,537,381st person alive on Earth 74,586,561,713th person to have lived since history began (So what do I do with that important information???).
Islam: Dr Patrick Sookhdeo responds to critical Guardian article
On 9 September 2011, The Guardian newspaper in the UK published an article by Mehdi Hasan, senior political editor of the New Statesman, entitled ¢â‚¬Å“How fear of criminalisation forces Muslims into silence ¢â‚¬ . This contained a number of specific and personal criticisms of Barnabas Fund ¢â‚¬â„¢s International Director, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo. This is not the first time in the recent past […]
Egypt: crescent vs cross (by a Christian and a Muslim)
Sightings 11/3/2011 From Tahrir to Maspero: Religious Tensions in Egypt Before and After the Revolution — Anthony Banout and Emran El-Badawi It seems so long ago that the eyes of the world were fixed on Tahrir Square, where a broad cross-section of Egyptians peacefully asserted their fundamental right to self govern and took a stand for […]
The Occupy Movement: a comment from Moscow
Occupy the Belly of the Beast 27 October 2011 By Boris Kagarlitsky When asked where he worked, one of my economist friends from the United States answered, ¢â‚¬Å“In the belly of the beast. ¢â‚¬ He meant Wall Street. For left-leaning and liberal Americans, Wall Street exemplifies the irrationality of modern capitalism. Many provincial conservatives also share this […]
Humo[u]r
Need an ark to save two of every animal? I noah guy… ================ TEACHER: What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested? PUPILS: A teacher. ========================== Things to Ponder Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a […]
Pray for the World (an evangelical perspective)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER EGYPT MORE RADICALISED THAN FIRST THOUGHT MUSLIMS FLOCK TO MECCA FOR THE ANNUAL HAJJ PILGRIMAGE OVER 2,000 CHAPLAINS PROTEST HOMOSEXUAL REGULATIONS AMAZING CHURCH GROWTH IN SOUTH KOREA GOD HEA;S MUTE WHO BECOMES A CHILD EVANGELIST NOT A SINGLE PUBLIC CHURCH LEFT IN AFGHANISTAN EGYPT AMENDS CRIMINAL CODE BANNING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION EGYPT […]
A Christian…..?
A Christian…..? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.. As he considered […]
Catcher in the Rye – and Cruising
Catcher in the Rye ¢â‚¬“ and Cruising I ¢â‚¬â„¢m joining these two subjects ¢â‚¬Ëœcos I ¢â‚¬â„¢m lazy at the moment, and if you ¢â‚¬â„¢re not interested in one you might be in the other… J D Salinger ¢â‚¬â„¢s The Catcher in the Rye has been on College English Lit. reading lists for half a century, but even with a […]
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