Rowland Croucher
MORAL OF THE PORCUPINE
I never knew porcupines were so cute as babies. Good story with a great message. Have you ever seen a baby porcupine? Fable of the Porcupine It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and […]
AN ALTERNATIVE CHRISTIAN VIEW ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Muriel PorterABC RELIGION AND ETHICSUPDATED 5 AUG 2011 (FIRST POSTED 4 AUG 2011) THERE IS SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR GAY PEOPLE AND THEIR HOPES OF MARRIAGE ACROSS THE MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THIS COUNTRY. SOME WORSHIPPERS THEMSELVES ARE GAY, AND SO ARE SOME CLERGY.CREDIT: CREATAS (THINKSTOCK) Support for legalising same-sex marriage is running high in the Australian community at present, […]
A CONSISTENT ETHIC OF LIFE (more… by Richard Rohr)
Leonard Cohen ¢â‚¬â„¢s song, ¢â‚¬Å“Anthem, ¢â‚¬ states in the refrain: ¢â‚¬Å“There is a crack in everything. That ¢â‚¬â„¢s how the light gets in. ¢â‚¬ That is a much more poetic way of naming what we unfortunately called ¢â‚¬Å“original sin ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬”a poor choice of words because the word sin implies fault and culpability, and that is precisely not the point! Original […]
Review: Allah: A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf) by Mark Durie
Author: Miroslav Volf Publisher: New York: HarperOne Publication Date: 2010 Reviewer: Mark Durie 326pp. ¢â‚¬ËœHot and spicy ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬“ but who does this Allah convince? ¢â‚¬ËœDo we worship the same God? ¢â‚¬â„¢ This has become a hotly contested and divisive question, posed in these troubled days by many Christians about Muslims and Islam. Influential theologian Miroslav Volf, […]
Homeless Grace
BRIAN DOYLE AUGUST 01, 2011 Poem for Grace Farrell (1976 ¢â‚¬“2011) A thin column in the newspaper; she died in an alcove Outside Saint Brigid’s Church. She was from Wicklow. She had been an artist. She came here at age seventeen. She drank. She married a man who slept on the avenue, Not near the church. He […]
“Clearly, this is not a pacifist God we serve”
Sightings 8/4/2011 Margaret M. Mitchell These words were posted by Joseph Farah on WorldNetDaily.com at 1:00 a.m. on November 26, 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11. The full column, ¢â‚¬Å“The Bible and self-defense, ¢â‚¬ presented a battery of biblical evidence, from Old and New Testaments, for why Christians should ¢â‚¬Å“buy firearms as a first step to […]
Your spiritual DNA
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I went to a counsellor some years ago who spoke to me about what he called my spiritual DNA. What he was referring to was the sensitivity of spirit that has been handed down to us by our ancestors. Just like a parent who has blond hair and blue eyes […]
MEET AMERICA’S NEW EVANGELICALS
Marcia PallyABC RELIGION AND ETHICS1 AUG 2011 MANY AMERICAN EVANGELICALS HAVE SINCE 2005 BROADENED THEIR PRIORITIES FROM THOSE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT TOWARDS AN POVERTY RELIEF, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, IMMIGRATION REFORM AND RECONCILIATION. SEE ALSO Related Story: What would MLK do? Christians and climate changeJARROD MCKENNA 17 JAN 2011 Related Story: Love Wins: Rob Bell and the neo-CalvinistasJARROD MCKENNA 2 MAR 2011 When I […]
Who Is John Stott?
The John Stott the World Knew Little About By Anugrah Kumar | Christian Post Contributor The journalist who famously described John Stott as the presumptive ¢â‚¬Å“pope ¢â‚¬ of the evangelicals also complained that the world knew so little about the man who had won exceptional honors and was celibate, humble, articulate, and once even controversial. (Photo: Langham Partnership International) John […]
INDONESIA: DANGEROUS DAYS FOR CHRISTIANS
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 119 | Wed 03 Aug 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal China is not landlocked, but it might as well be. China’s coast does not open to the Pacific Ocean (where the US Navy is supreme) but opens to the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the […]
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