Rowland Croucher
Burqa, niqab: should they be banned?
Nigella’s beach cover-up Madeleine Bunting The Guardian, Saturday 23 April 2011 Earlier this week, a British woman in Australia wore a full head-to-toe black suit, complete with hoodie, to go swimming. Perhaps she thought what she wore on the beach was her own business. How wrong could she be. Wind forward a couple of days and there […]
Fascinated by Jesus
Still fascinated after all these years by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I just watched an amazing video of a portrait of Jesus being put together by a wonderful artist. As I was watching, I realised how fascinated I still am by Jesus. After about 25 years of being a believer, he still challenges me, still […]
Why Laos Restricts Religious Freedom
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report April 25, 2011 Troops of the Lao People ¢â‚¬â„¢s Army (LPA) caught a group of Hmong Christians, confiscated their Bible and shot to death four women ¢â‚¬“ after repeatedly raping two of them ¢â‚¬“ forcing their husbands and children to witness the disgraceful and gruesome act on April 15. US-based think-tank […]
Threatened by Resurrection
One: During the 1980s, refugees fleeing the terror created in their own countries by United States foreign and trade policies, came across both the Mexican border and the United States border seeking sanctuary. Guatemalan poet, Julia Esquivel, recognizing the terror, torture, and death in her own country, wrote a poem conveying her faith in a God who […]
Atlas Shrugged and Its Reviewers
Sightings 4/25/2011 — Martin E. Marty Atlas Shrugged, viewed by reviewers of most stripes as being appallingly appalling, draws crowds of devotees, and has champions on the right, including the Religious Right. Reviewing movie reviews is not standard fare in this column, but the support for this film based on the Ayn Rand perennial best-seller, […]
Pray for the World (25 April 2011)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SNAP SHOT OF WORLD TROUBLE SPOTS * AFRICAN LEADERS SNUFF OUT FLAMES OF DISCONTENT * NIGERIA: THOUSANDS DISPLACED AS ATTACKS ON VILLAGES CONTINUE * MARYLAND STATE IN THE U.S.A. DEFEATS SAME SEX MARRIAGE BILL * JAPAN’S TRAGEDY TURNS SPIRITUAL * GOD SAVES CREW IN MICROLIGHT PLANE CRASH ———————————————– SNAP SHOT […]
Anzac Day: A Faith Event?
By Alan Matheson For historians, Anzac Day, is ¢â‚¬Å“a martial affair with military music and ritual ¢â‚¬ , while for churches and their army chaplains, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s a ¢â‚¬Å“faith event ¢â‚¬ . Anzac Day services, asserts a Brigadier Principal Chaplain, are, ¢â‚¬Å“in essence faith events. Through the prayers, the acts of memorial, and the playing of bugle calls, those who […]
Two Amazing (Musical) Experiences
http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm (Swan Lake as you’ve never seen it) http://www.choralnet.org/view/268945 (What does a 3-year-old conductor do when he has an itchy nose?)
Theology: keep it simple eh?
(Buried in a Facebook thread): In terms of simple explanations… there is this tendency in academic theology, particularly of a liberal persuasion, to build layer and layer of speculation like a house of cards… as someone with a science background I find such works of theology frankly annoying. As such, my bias is toward simple theological […]
Easter Paradox
THE EASTER JOURNEY INTO PARADOX By Alison Milbank ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 24 APR 2011 The philosopher A.C. Grayling’s The Good Book: A Secular Bible uses names of biblical books, such as Acts, and the chapter and verse format, but omits the life of Christ in favour of that of Cicero and other worthies. His […]
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