Rowland Croucher
Climate update adds more heat to debate
February 5, 2011 Paddy Manning Forget a 1 or 2-degree increase. Due to chronic political failure, we’re looking at 4 degrees. NO DOUBT Australia’s chief climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, ”gets” the urgency of the climate debate, but will the politicians listen this time, and what if the whole debate is still in the wrong […]
Three Holy Men and a Bear
A Catholic Priest, a Baptist Preacher, and a Rabbi all served as Chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette . They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn’t really all that hard – […]
Does Religious Disaster Relief Really Work?
*Sightings* 2/3/2011*The Haiti Earthquake One Year Later: A Survey of Religious Disaster Relief* — Jonathan C. Bergman On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti just sixteen miles outside the capital city, Port-au-Prince. The quake left approximately 200,000 dead, more than a million displaced, and an infrastructure in tatters. […]
Teachers may or may not love this :-)
Children Are Quick ____________________________________ TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America . MARIA: Here it is. TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America ? CLASS: Maria. ____________________________________ TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor? JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables. __________________________________________ TEACHER: Glenn, […]
Justice Mercy and Faith
A version of a talk I’ve given many times… The three key ‘kingdom values’ for Jesus – and therefore the three key ‘missional values’ for us – individually and corporately… [Rowland Croucher] [powerpress]
A Throne or A Towel
A sermon on Jesus washing the disciples’ feet – preached at First Baptist Church, Vancouver, Canada, when I was pastor there briefly 1981-2. [Rowland Croucher] [powerpress]
DREAMS OF REVOLUTION GRIP ARAB WORLD
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 093 | Wed 02 Feb 2011 Christians more vulnerable than ever as . . . DREAMS OF REVOLUTION GRIP ARAB WORLD By Elizabeth Kendal When hundreds of international Sunni jihadists infiltrated and seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 20 November 1979, they attracted little interest. The […]
How Russia Created Its Own Islamic Terrorism Problem
Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 By Fareed Zakaria The terrorist attack at the Moscow airport on Jan. 24 was horrific, murdering dozens of innocent civilians. It is probably linked to Chechnya or the surrounding areas in the Caucasus, from which so many such attacks have emanated. Russia has been the site of the largest number of […]
Hermeneutics: The Problem with Literalism
“Science and the Sacred” frequently features essays from The BioLogos Foundation’s leaders and Senior Fellows. Today’s entry was written by Pete Enns. Pete Enns is Senior Fellow of Biblical Studies for The BioLogos Foundation and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament, which looks […]
On a Rope :-)
11 PEOPLE … ON A ROPE Eleven people were hanging on a rope, under a helicopter. 10 men and 1 woman. The rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided that one had to leave, Because otherwise they were all going to fall. They weren’t able to choose that person, until […]
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