Rowland Croucher
Marilynne Robinson: Pulitzer Prize-Winner who writes ‘Christianly’
Marilynne Robinson’s Lila by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Oct 13 2014 Marilynne Robinson in 2012 Image: Christian Scott Heine Bell / Wikimedia Commons ¢â‚¬Å“If you could create a phenomenology of consciousness, some part of it would be the systematic falsification of the foundations of our culture. ¢â‚¬ After that sentence in literary-critic-ese, Novelist Marilynne Robinson […]
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?
Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ – like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others – speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com – or you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook. These speakers share their […]
Left Behind…
Warning: if you open the links mentioned in the ¢â‚¬Å“Sources ¢â‚¬ section at the end of this column, your agenda of other things to read may well be left behind. The ¢â‚¬Å“Sources ¢â‚¬ list just a few reviews out of many dealing with the film that opened over the weekend, Left Behind. I, for one, became […]
THE FUTURE: 2044: What will it look like?
Some interesting prognostications in an article titled ‘A Brief History of the Future’ in The Age, Good Weekend, September 27, 2014: Government by machine: It’s already happening in the US and UK. Complain about your parking ticket and get a computerised response/decision. All your tax refunds will be machine-processed. A Jobless Future: 93% of all […]
Why I’ve had enough of being spiritual
First glance at a heading like this might cause some confusion. ¢â‚¬Å“But isn’t God spirit? Jesus himself says so, so what ¢â‚¬â„¢s the problem with any attempt at being spiritual? ¢â‚¬ Jesus did indeed say that God is spirit, in his incredible conversation with the woman at the well in John 4. And because Jesus said it, […]
LIVING UNTIL I DIE
My aim is to die young as late as possible. I am determined to live each day till I die rather than die a little each day that I live. For me, life is a gift, and the way to make the most of it Is to seek out the Giver and to try […]
Diverticulitis – Diet: Best and Worst Foods ???
Posted on to Facebook: I learned this week I have the beginnings of diverticulitis… Any wisdom about cure/ prevention from medicos/fellow-sufferers? Ahhhh Thats crappy. Sorry to hear that but if you get on top of it now you will feel a whl elot more comfortable. Back to basics for you mister. Diverticulitis OR diverticular disease??? […]
POT POURRI: worth pondering…
I’ll probably add a bunch of items-to-think-about regularly (from my reading/devotions etc.) A pot-pourri of items on this week’s pocket-list to ponder: Kierkegaard: Life has to be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards Yanis Varoufakis: A radical economist in the ’emperor has no clothes’ category. ‘The real purpose of right-wing politics is to […]
Same-sex marriage: by a former anti-gay Evangelical
MARRIAGE IS FOR EVERYBODY, SAYS FORMER ANTI-GAY EVANGELICAL Title: The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart Author: Mark Achtemeier Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Release Date: June 13, 2014 Pages: 144 Mark Achtemeier has been a minister with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) since 1984, and for much of his ministry he […]
Graham Tyson: a eulogy
A Son ¢â‚¬â„¢s Eulogy for Graham Roland Tyson (Note from Rowland. I knew Graham and his family while I was pastor at Blackburn Baptist Church. This is an excellent eulogy by his very gifted son Paul). In career terms Dad was not a climber. He was a good engineer but he had no interest in […]
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