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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Contemplation and Action

On June 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

29 August 2010 “Don’t just do something: sit there”. In a world where urgent social and environmental issues call us to action, can we afford the luxury of contemplation? What is the relationship between doing and sitting? Laurence Freeman, Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation, looks at prayer, meditation and the virtue of […]

Paraprosdokians

On June 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sent Friday, May 27, 2011 A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Check out the following for examples: I asked God for a bike, but […]

ZIMBABWE: CHURCHES TARGETED AMIDST POLITICAL VIOLENCE

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Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 110 | Wed 01 Jun 2011 —————————————————– ZIMBABWE: CHURCHES TARGETED AMIDST POLITICAL VIOLENCE Plus Algeria; Ivory Coast —————————————————– By Elizabeth Kendal On 9 April some 500 Christians from Harare, Mutare, Bulawayo and Gweru gathered in the Church of the Nazarene in Glen Norah for a special ‘Praying for Peace […]

Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community

On June 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community (Paperback) “Love is an Orientation” could have been written by many of us. My last 18 years as out gay man, being involved in of the many diversities of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community and 22 years living totally within a Christian […]

Catholic sexual abuse study greeted with incurious contempt

On May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Posted Fri May 27, 2011 3:34pm AEST Pope Benedict XVI visits the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City May 12, 2009. (Reuters: Ronen Zvulun) I suppose I should no longer be surprised by the self-righteous cynicism and seemingly wilful ignorance of the media when it comes to reporting on Catholic affairs. […]

Islam and Women’s Rights

On May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

OIC Fatwa on Domestic Violence and the Rights of Women in Islam In April 2009, the Islamic Fiqh Academy made a ruling entitled  ¢â‚¬ËœDomestic Violence ¢â‚¬â„¢. This is a highly significant document which reflects a high-level consensus of leading Muslim scholars in the world today. It was clearly issued in the context of criticisms of Islam […]

Religious Education in Schools

On May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Balanced  ¢â‚¬Ëœdebate ¢â‚¬â„¢ about religious education in Victorian Schools is missing in The Age By Lance Lawton – posted Monday, 30 May 2011 The recent publication of Lindsay Tanner ¢â‚¬â„¢s Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy has in some sense given us all permission to question the health of politics in Australia, and especially of political coverage by media […]

The Usefulness of (some) laws

On May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Without law in some form, and also without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily and naturally. The rebellions of two-year-olds and teenagers are in our hardwiring, and we have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against – to test our mettle. Richard Rohr, Falling Upward, 26  ¢â‚¬Å½’As Rilke put […]

Pray for the World 31 May 2011

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AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * AMERICAN CHURCHES LOSING BUILDINGS AS BANKS FORECLOSE * NORTH KOREA’S COLLAPSING ECONOMY OPENS DOOR FOR CRIMINAL GANGS * ‘RELIGICIDE’ EXTERMINATING IRAQI CHRISTIANS * THE BIBLE BEATS MANCHESTER UNITED AND JUSTIN BIEBER ON FACEBOOK CHARTS * CHINA’S PRISONS * SWEDISH CHRISTIANS MINISTERING TO REFUGEES ———————————————– AMERICAN CHURCHES LOSING BUILDINGS AS BANKS […]

Palestine: pray for Justice and Peace

On May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi Joint action for just peace is the theme for the “World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel” 29 May-4 June. The WCC is calling for churches to plan their focus around 3 principles: * Praying with churches living under occupation * Educating about actions that make for peace * Advocating with political leaders using […]

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