Rowland Croucher
The Longest War
By Harry T. Cook 11/12/10 As wars and rumors of wars have been always with us, I can say that, never having been given a choice about whether to have one, I was able to tolerate our longest war best. It was the one that lasted about 45 years, roughly from 1945 to the early […]
Rescue the Humanities
By Harry T. Cook 11/19/10 When angst over the spiraling costs of higher education gets the better of college and university administrations, the humanities frequently end up taking the hindmost. Deans and faculties under pressure to recruit and keep students ponder such otherwise tabooed questions in academe as: “Who needs to know about ‘Moby Dick’ […]
Ambition
Ambitious Like Jesus If your ambitions aren’t worth your life, they’re not big enough. Will Willimon Tuesday, October 12, 2010 So my wife signs me up to participate in a research project at Duke that was investigating the “effect of exercise upon Type A personalities who had no previous experience with physical exercise.” Why did […]
Why there are no suicide bombers on Israeli buses
In Seville, Spain, the City Council authorized the construction of a Mosque on one of the empty pieces of land. The citizens did not want the mosque built in their vicinity and found a brilliant solution. They buried a pig in the land, and made the news public. The Islamic law prohibits the construction of […]
A ‘Buy Nothing’ Day: Now there’s a good idea!
Saturday was International Buy Nothing Day, not that anyone here knew anything about it. We'd like to suggest Keep Your Receipts And Return It If You Don't Really Need It Week, as the obvious alternative, what with Christmas coming. READ ON <http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/a-little-ray-of-sunshine-20101128-18cg7.html> Prepare for Christmas with … buy Nothing Day. READ ON <http://www.whatwouldjesusbuy.org.au/christmas.htm>
The Poor Are Us: Poverty and Mutual Fairness
THE POOR ARE US: POVERTY AND MUTUAL FAIRNESS By John Milbank ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 22 NOV 2010 The UK Coalition government has recently unveiled plans for a wide-ranging reform of the welfare benefits system. This, in summary, involves three things. First, switching from a confusing number of myriad entitlements to one universal credit […]
Technology and wealth
Two Oz current (12 April 2010) news items to make you think: * ‘Medical radiation is estimated to trigger about 400 cancers a year here’. * ‘The richest 1% of taxpayers – now 9.8% of all income; in 2002-3 they earned 8.8%. The 15000 ‘super rich’ – 0.1% (incomes $693,000+) = 3.6% of taxpayers (up […]
The Trinity
Some random (and interesting) comments from Facebook friends: * “Here we have tiny finite minds trying to fathom the Infinite nature of God. It’s fun trying … but at the end of the day … we aint got a hope of unravelling the mystery of the Trinity. In fact, the doctrine of the Trinity doesn’t […]
Translation Problems in the KJV New Testament
Copyrighted 2000 by Theodore H. Mann Contents: Introduction Basic difficulties The development of the Textus Receptus Which Version of the KJV? Printing errors which have never been corrected Differences between the 1611 version and the modern KJV Passages in the KJV having no Greek manuscript support A few passages not appearing in any of the […]
Winston Churchill: The Ugly Briton
The Ugly Briton A scholarly account of Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine leaves his reputation in tatters By SHASHI THAROOR Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 Few statesmen of the 20th century have reputations as outsize as Winston Churchill’s. And yet his assiduously self-promoted image as what the author Harold Evans called “the British Lionheart on […]
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