Rowland Croucher
Comforting the troops
I’ve heard sermons about the Holy Spirit being our ‘Comforter’ (Paraclete) which mentions a king who rode behind his troops with a spear or something to goad them into battle… I put this question to my Facebook friends: Who was the General/King in a famous painting who rode horseback behind his soldiers with a lance, […]
Prayer of St Francis wasn’t written by Francis!
Facebook friend David wrote: “Hi Rowland [The Prayer of St Francis was misattributed!) Since so much has been digitised, it is easy to look through the published works of an author and see if they ever said what people said they said. So many misattributions! e.g. Voltaire never said his most famous saying! That was […]
How to Live with an Awesome Attitude, Awareness & Authenticity
Most inspiring preaching I’ve heard in a long while – and without a Bible text! Embrace your inner 3-year-old. This goes for just 17 minutes – and could change your life. (Add your own Bible text, as I just did: before I tell you: what’s yours?). http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_pasricha_the_3_a_s_of_awesome.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-01-11 Oh, I’ll tell you: I can do all […]
Disaster: notes for worship-leaders
Some rough notes from a friend: “”””””God decided to send too much bloody rain”. (Financial Review 13.1.11) Well……….not really…… But…….. it is a time for reflection. Following are some resources which might be of interest, as you prepare for Sunday services: @ Check Dennis Ryle’s blog (Wembly Downs CofC; Dennis picks up in a number […]
Silent Savior: Daring to Believe He’s Still There
Silent Savior: Daring to Believe He’s Still There, by A. J. Gregory (Revell, 2009) So how do people cope with emotional pain, disaster, loneliness, depression (not to mention, in Gregory’s case, also bulimia, problems with alcohol and males – and, she also mentions, several rejections of this manuscript by publishers!)? (By the way we don’t […]
Grandparents
WHAT IS A GRANDPARENT? (Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds) Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people’s. A grandfather is a man & a grandmother is a lady! Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come […]
Moderate Muslims in Egypt: ‘Coptic Christians Are Neighbors’
Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Serve as Human Shields to Protect Coptic Christians Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as ¢â‚¬Å“shields ¢â‚¬ to Egypt ¢â‚¬â„¢s threatened Christian community Egypt ¢â‚¬â„¢s majority Muslim population stuck to its word last Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to […]
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OCCULTISM
Western Esotericism: A Concise History, by Antoine Faivre — It was our hope that this secular academic short history of the occult might help make sense of a very confusing field. Surely someone else can do better. Faivre first came to our attention for his historical survey work in 1994. Now a Sorbonne professor emeritus, this […]
Outrageous: opposing Ground Zero’s Park 51
Outraged, And Outrageous By ANNE BARNARD and ALAN FEUER Published: October 10, 2010 PAMELA GELLER’S apartment, in the fashion of the blogosphere, doubles as her office. It is a modern full-floor unit in a high-rise on the East Side of Manhattan that could belong to a socialite or the editor of a lifestyle magazine. There […]
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