Rowland Croucher
THEODICY: debate between Bart Ehrman and Tom Wright
Notes from the famous discussion between an Evangelical-turned-agnostic and a ‘progressive evangelical’ Anglican bishop. Bart Ehrman: How the Problem of Pain Ruined My Faith Thursday April 17, 2008 In my mid 20s, I left the evangelical fold, but I remained a Christian for some twenty years ¢â‚¬”a God-believing, sin-confessing, church-going Christian, who no longer held to […]
IRAN: REGIME HITS OUT AT APOSTASY — 70 ARRESTED
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 090 | Wed 12 Jan 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal Ethnic Armenian and Assyrian Orthodox Churches in Iran may exist in peace as long as they do not proselytise (i.e. seek converts). It is illegal to preach Christianity in Farsi (the Persian language) just as it is illegal for Muslims […]
Theodicy and the 2004 Tsunami
David B. Hart ¢â‚¬â„¢s essay from the March 2005 issue of First Things, written in light of the tsunami that devastated the South Asian coastline in December 2004. No one, no matter how great the scope of his imagination, should be able easily to absorb the immensity of the catastrophe that struck the Asian rim of the […]
Anorexia
Received this today from an online friend… Reactions? I was on my smoko break at work and I sighed as I looked up into the heavens ¢â‚¬Å“there must be more to life than this? ¢â‚¬ No answer came…. well straight away that is. But, a lot happened after that moment. I was diagnosed with anorexia in the […]
Martyrdom and Acquiescence
– Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Iran Targets Christians with a Wave of Arrests, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“Egyptian Copts Mark Christmas Cautiously, ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“Anti-Christian Crimes Downplayed, ¢â‚¬ were all Friday headlines that set the tone for weekend coverage of bad news. Google some words like ¢â‚¬Å“Christian Martyrs ¢â‚¬ and scroll down from early Christian accounts to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. You […]
THE BURQA AND LIBERATION
“Tis very easy to see they have more Liberty than we have, no Woman of what rank so ever being permitted to go in the streets without two muslims, one that covers her face all but her Eyes and another that hides the whole dress of her head and hangs halfway down her back …You […]
Pray for the World (January 2011)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * IVORY COAST FACING WAR AS CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS FACE OFF * SCORES OF CHRISTIANS KILLED OVER CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR * AUSTRALIA WARNED AS SWITZERLAND CONSIDERS REPEALING INCEST LAWS * IRAQI CHRISTIANS MURDERED IN THEIR HOMES * URGENT PRAYER REQUEST AS CHRISTIANS CONTINUE TO FLEE IRAQ * CONGRESS TWEAKS PRESIDENT’S […]
Bees are dying off worldwide and our entire food chain is in peril
Dear friends, <https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_bees/?cl=897408805&v=8125> Bees are dying off worldwide and our entire food chain is in peril. Scientists blame toxic pesticides and four European governments have already banned them. If we get the US and the EU to join the ban, other governments across the world could follow, and save bees from extinction. Sign the petition […]
Affairs and the mid-life crisis
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Many Christians, mainly men, have affairs in their 40s. Why is this? Do we really believe that another partner (more often than not someone younger and sexier) will give us what we think is lacking in our lives? Many of us talk about unmet needs, meaning sexual fulfillment, so we […]
Surrender: Running Up the White Flag
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com ‘Surrender’ has been a dirty word since time immemorial. Ever since Adam defied God by refusing to continue to submit his life to the One who created him, we have a natural tendency to baulk at the idea of giving up control. The irony is though that giving up means […]
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