Rowland Croucher
Short of a dollar?
Tired of being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife and arranging to have her killed. A “friend of a friend” put him in touch with a nefarious underworld figure, who went by the name of “Artie.” […]
If we are Christians, why are we sad at death?
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com If Jesus is coming back to renew all things and we will be reunited with loved ones who have died, why are we sad when they die? Shouldn’t we be glad that we will see them again? Such an attitude reflects a denial of the reality of life as it […]
Pray for the World December 6, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * THE VICAR OF BAGHDAD SPEAKS OUT ABOUT RECENT IRAQ CHURCH BOMBINGS * RECORD NUMBERS OF FEMALE INMATES TURNING TO CHRIST * BRITS TOLD TO INSURE THEMSELVES AGAINST DIVORCE * POPE BENEDICT CALLS FOR WORLDWIDE PRAYER AGAINST ABORTION * ALGERIA: OFFICIALS ORDER CLOSURE OF 19 PROTESTANT CONGREGATIONS * A HOMELESS MAN’S […]
Australian Spirituality
DISSATISFACTION AND THE SHAPE OF AUSTRALIAN SPIRITUALITY By Philip Hughes ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 26 NOV 2010 YOUNG PEOPLE JEALOUSLY GUARD THEIR RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS ABOUT RELIGIOUS FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY, BUT THEY DO NOT FIND THOSE DECISIONS EASY. Australia is a good place to live. It is well ordered. The basic […]
THE BLESSING OF A MATE
Someone has compiled the following list of observations about married life: * A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. * Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night. * […]
These facts/opinions got me thinking…
One of the publications I enjoy reading regularly is the Australian Quarterly Essay, in which an expert in political science or international affairs is invited to write a 25,000 essay on an important current issue. The following edition has responses by other experts The September 2010 edition focussed on Power Shift: Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s Future Between Washington […]
CHURCH DROP-OUT RATE HAS INCREASED FIVEFOLD
Are We Becoming an Atheist Nation? 3 Reasons Young People Are Abandoning Religion November 28, 2010 Chances are that if you are in your 20s or 30s, you are not hanging around a church. Polling is now a highly sophisticated industry, and religious organizations are being fed some irrefutable numbers about what is happening among […]
God’s Email
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the misbehaving that was going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time. When the angel returned, he told God, ‘Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not. […]
THREE WAYS TO READ THE BIBLE
The three books reviewed here are excellent examples of how one branch of the Christian church reads its sacred book – the Bible – and may be ignorant of other ways of approaching the Scriptures. The Evangelical/Holiness method is practised during one’s daily ‘Quiet Time’ (in what Catholics have traditionally termed the ‘oratory’) where one […]
SUDAN: REFERENDUM SOON AND WAR LOOMS
Voter registration commenced on 15 November for Sudan’s Southern Self- Determination Referendum (SSDR) to be held on 9 January 2011. In this referendum Southerners, who are black African and mostly Christian, will vote either to remain part of a united Sudan or to secede and become an independent state. The SSDR is mandated in the […]
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