Rowland Croucher
Poems about Confession
Two nuns and my second confession BRIAN DOYLE NOVEMBER 30, 2010 Sister Anne Marie It was in second grade that I discovered I could not see. This thought had never occurred to me in all my years. When Sister Anne spun suddenly to write on the board, Her rosary big as a halter desperately trying to […]
The Seven Basic Plots
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, by Christopher Booker. New York: Continuum, 2005, viii & 728 pp. $34.98. In the summer of 1975, moviegoers flocked to see the story of a predatory shark terrorizing a little Long Island resort. The film told how three brave men go to sea in a small boat […]
WikiLeaks: the Weight of the Word
December 12, 2010 To oppose WikiLeaks is to be against press freedom and free speech. Are Julian Assange and WikiLeaks really doing anything that unusual? After all, leaks are one of the foundations of contemporary journalism. Leaks are one of the best techniques we have to peek behind the curtain of government. So the aggressive […]
THE BIBLE AND HOMOSEXUALITY, YET AGAIN
By Amy-Jill Levine ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 8 DEC 2010 The recent debates in the Australian parliament over gay marriage have followed the same wearisome pattern seen in so many other countries. Politicians try to manage their constituents, churches mount their vigorous defence of the definition of “marriage,” and the Bible, once again, is […]
HOW MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BECAME NONVIOLENT
By Stanley Hauerwas ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 8 DEC 2010 KING KNEW THAT THE WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT SUFFERING WITHOUT RETALIATION MUST BE BASED ON THE CONVICTION THAT THE UNIVERSE IS ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE. Of all the stupid claims that Christopher Hitchens makes in his God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, […]
Religious Liberty Lost Worldwide December 2010
By Doug Bandow on 12.7.10 @ 6:08AM Americans take religious liberty for granted. Unfortunately, this most fundamental freedom of conscience and action is not protected in many other countries around the world. State repression is the most obvious assault on religious faith. Today Christians face the death penalty in Afghanistan and Pakistan in prosecutions for […]
Pray for the World December 13, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SURVEY REVEALS AMERICANS’ ATTITUDE TO MARRIAGE IS STILL STRONG * 135 EVANGELICAL CHURCHES RECEIVE LEGAL STATUS IN ALBANIA * PUSH TO REPEAL PAKISTAN’S BLASPHEMY LAWS * CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT PRAY FOR PROTECTION FROM EXTREMIST ATTACKS * SUPPORT AT U.N. FOR DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS DWINDLING * INDONESIA: 110 CHURCHES CLOSED IN […]
IVORY COAST: ON THE BRINK OF WAR
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 085 | Wed 08 Dec 2010 Like Sudan and Nigeria, Ivory Coast is divided by a volatile ethnic- religious fault-line. Whilst the less-developed North has long been predominantly Muslim, the South — Ivory Coast’s economic and political engine — has historically been predominantly Christian and African Traditional Religion (ATR). […]
Christmas reflection 2010
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Singer Jackson Browne – who does not profess a Christian faith – laments the mad consumerism that overtakes us even more at Christmas than it normally does. In his song, The Rebel Jesus, Browne says the following: Well we guard our world with locks and guns And we guard our […]
Sweet baby Jesus, no crying he makes. Really?
I love people like Richard Rohr who are so warm and Christlike, and who just say it as it is. I am tired of the way Christians have gone along with the sanitised ‘sweet baby Jesus, no crying he makes’ version of Christmas that we have been fed. The reality is far from that. Let […]
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