Rowland Croucher
Polio: India – with others’ help – is winning the war!
Killer’s on the ropes as India wages war against polio Ben Doherty April 2, 2011 Worth the tears: Four-month-old Krishna is vaccinated against polio in a rag-pickers ¢â‚¬â„¢ village in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Photo: Ben Doherty BY THE train tracks in Moradabad, among the squalid nomads’ tents and the rag-pickers’ concrete houses, the children […]
Pray for the World April 18, 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MISSIONARY TEACHER TELLS OF THE MOMENT QUAKE HIT JAPAN * STORIES OF MIRACULOUS SURVIVALS AND RESCUES EMERGE IN JAPAN * CANADA: MAYOR DEFIES RULING TO CEASE PRAYERS IN COUNCIL MEETINGS * CHRISTIANS IN JAPAN APPEAL FOR ONGOING PRAYER * MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE GIDEON BIBLES * PERSECUTION CONTINUES IN EGYPT ———————————————– MISSIONARY TEACHER […]
Arabs and the West: Clash of Civilizations?
Arab hunger for freedom David Brooks April 14, 2011 The theory of a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West is wanting. The American political scientist Samuel Huntington published a sensational essay in 1993 in Foreign Affairs called ”The Clash of Civilisations?” The essay, which became a book, argued that the post-Cold War era would be […]
Poker machines and problem gambling
Proposals to curb problem gambling are not wowserism. Photo: Dallas Kilponen Clubs are addicted to a jackpot they refuse to relinquish Loss-limiting cards or low-impact pokies. The industry must choose one. She is a close family friend and had not gambled for more than two years. Yet, after a personal crisis, she found herself at her […]
Arab world’s smooth changes are over, civil wars remain
Thomas Friedman April 16, 2011 When I was in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising, I wanted to change hotels one day to be closer to the action and called the Marriott to see if it had any openings. The young-sounding Egyptian woman from the reservations department offered me a room and then asked: ”Do you […]
Egypt: Recent Persecution of Coptic Christians
The Dhimma Time Warp Returns for the Copts of Egypt In recent weeks a series of incidents in Egypt give evidence that, post-Mubarak, the Copts are being pressured to assume the time-warped status of dhimmis, a captive people in their own native lands, whose status is to be tightly circumscribed by traditional sharia law. The ancient dhimma […]
Retaliation vs Non-violence
Richard Rohr wrote a brief reflection on the revolutionary nature of Jesus’ life, and how freeing it actually is: Shame and honor, and the maintenance of these divisions, were, in fact, primary moral values in the culture Jesus lived in. As a result, required retaliation was the rule in Jewish culture, as it has been […]
Palm Sunday Interactive Liturgy – ‘He kept on walking’
Palm Sunday Interactive Liturgy – ‘He kept on walking’ by Lindy Croucher on Saturday, April 16, 2011 Have someone lined up to represent Jesus. When you begin, have this person walk around the room, and keep walking throughout the whole liturgy. Leader: I want you to imagine Jesus and his disciples walking dusty roads from one […]
IS THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THE FATHER OF JESUS?
(Discussion questions for a fairly well-educated study-group. There are many other issues of course: these are simply ‘starters’)… Any responses? In his book The God Delusion, atheist Richard Dawkins writes: ¢â‚¬Å“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; […]
PORN
“Hard Core: The New World of Porn Is Revealing Eternal Truths about Men and Women” by Natasha Vargas-Cooper — in reading that is not for the faint of heart, the author reports that “in 2007, a quarter of all Internet searches were related to pornography. Nielsen ratings showed that in January 2010, more than a […]
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