Rowland Croucher
Where is God in Fukushima?
St Alfs@6, 22 May 2011. Job 38:1-18 Ian Hore-Lacy “Where is God in Fukushima?” is really a focusing of Job’s question which God answered for him in the reading we have just heard. But how do we understand the particulars of that today? The issue here and now is whether a rare and complex earthquake, […]
ETHICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS
Note from Rowland: My own views are not as below, but this is posted to provide ‘equal opportunity/pro-and-con’ arguments about this fraught issue… (see http://jmm.org.au/articles/22914.htm ) **** By Rod Benson et al. There is a bill before the Australian Parliament to change the current definition of marriage to allow same-sex couples to marry. The debate […]
Bus Rapid Transit Networks
TIME | May 2, 2011 By Ayesha and Parag Khanna On April 5, Luciano Ducci, the mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, boarded the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s largest urban bus on its inaugural ride across town, marking yet another coup for the city ¢â‚¬â„¢s transportation system. Powered exclusively by biofuels (made from soybeans), the 92-ft.-long (28 m) megabus can carry […]
Republic or Monarchy?
By Nick Cohen Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 During one of the royal pageants that periodically choke the streets of London, a conservatively dressed American approached me. “You must be so proud,” she trilled, and she became quite truculent when I told her I felt nothing but shame. “How can you hate your country?” she snapped. “What’s […]
Pray for the World May 25, 2011
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 109 | Wed 25 May 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. (Isaiah 26:3 ESV) MAY 2011 UPDATE — During May we prayed for […]
Prison vs Work
IN PRISON……….you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell. AT WORK…………you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle. IN PRISON………you get three meals a day. AT WORK………..you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it. IN PRISON……….you get time off for good behavior. AT […]
Carl Rogers: pros and cons
Note from Rowland: I’ve learned something from Carl Rogers’ ‘non-directive’ therapeutic approach: how to listen empathetically to someone’s story without being invasive/intrusive with my own questions and comments. Something I didn’t learn: Rogers’ idea that the solutions to pretty-well all of a person’s problems lie within themselves, and shouldn’t be imposed from outside/above/anywhere else… Update […]
Sam Harris’s Atheism
*Sightings* 5/23/2011 — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Same Old New Atheism, ¢â‚¬ last week ¢â‚¬â„¢s clipping about religion sighted in the public sphere (it might as well be labeled ¢â‚¬Å“Same New Old Atheism ¢â‚¬ ) is a 6800-word review which places the trendy ¢â‚¬Å“New Atheism ¢â‚¬ in the context of previous efforts to establish scientific positivism in the place of religion. […]
Clean Humo[u]r
There was a man sitting at a bar, and he looks over at the gentleman sitting next to him and says, “Hey, you look familiar. Are you from around here?” The man answers, “Yeah, I live down the street.” “No kidding?” says the first man, “Well, so do I. And hey, you look about my […]
Soren Kierkegaard on the Bible
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything […]
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