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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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BIG SOCIETY, SMALL WORLD (By Rowan Williams)

On April 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 1 APR 2011 The theme of the Big Society has found its way into a wide range of contexts in the last year or so. Reactions have been varied; but we should not be distracted from recognising that, whatever the detail of rationale and implementation, it represents an extraordinary opportunity. […]

Darwin and Genesis

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DARWINISM AND THE QUEST TO CHEAT DEATH By John Gray ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 28 MAR 2011 Contrary to the cartoon history of ideas that prevails today, Darwinism’s threat to religion did not come principally from challenging the biblical account of creation. Until a few centuries ago the Genesis story was known to be […]

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary

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3/31/2011 *Mary ¢â‚¬â„¢s Late Arrival to the United States* — Joseph Laycock On December 8, 2010, Our Lady of Good Help, a tiny shrine in Champion, Wisconsin, became the first Marian apparition site in the United States to receive official church approval. David L. Ricken, bishop of Green Bay, concluded a two-year investigation and determined that […]

The Deity of Jesus, Islam (The Third Choice) and other issues

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Apologia Report: Surveying New Resources in Christian Apologetics – a weekly e-mail briefing in worldview news and study designed to help bring understanding to an age-old arena of conflict Volume 16: Number 11 (1,061) March 31, 2011 In this issue: BIBLICAL HEBREW – a comparative review of the modern, critical, and electronic editions CHRISTOLOGY – […]

Rediscovering the Historical Jesus (Dr. William Lane Craig)

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In this first part of a two-part article, the presuppositions and pretentions of the Jesus Seminar are exposited and assessed. It is found that the principal presuppositions of (i) scientific naturalism, (ii) the primacy of the apocryphal gospels, and (iii) the necessity of a politically correct Jesus are unjustified and issue in a distorted portrait […]

Billy Graham’s Suit

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Billy Graham is now 90 years old with Parkinson’s disease. In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte , North Carolina , invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, ‘We don’t expect a major […]

Pray for the World 31 March 2011

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Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 101 | Wed 23 Mar 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal MARCH 2011 UPDATE — During March we prayed for . . . EGYPT, after the Egyptian Army fired live ammunition against the community of St Bishoy Monastery in Wadi al-Natroun before using tanks and bulldozers to destroy the monastery’s security […]

Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

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WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ————————————– *Saving Pakistan’s Christians* ————————————– March 30, 2011 Pakistan is rightly in the spotlight of Christian rights groups after last month ¢â‚¬â„¢s assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian and Minister of Minority Affairs, for his efforts to repeal the notorious blasphemy law. Despite severe criticism by the international community that followed, […]

Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted (review by Ben Witherington)

On March 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted, (San Francisco: Harper One, 2009), xii +292 pages. Part One ( the first 60 pages) Bart Ehrman is both a gifted writer and a gifted lecturer. Perhaps his best gift is the ability to distill difficult and complex material down to a level that undergraduates and ordinary lay folk can […]

Allah: A Christian Response (Miroslav Volf) [5]

On March 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Previous article in this series – http://jmm.org.au/articles/26663.htm Chapter 3: A Protestant Reformer and the God of the Turks For Martin Luther, the question as to whether Christians and Muslims have a common God revolved around the understanding of God’s love and its utter gratuity. Can we say they have a common God if they differ […]

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