Rowland Croucher
Euthanasia: Rational Choice?
‘How to die’ becoming as important a question as ‘how to live’ October 7, 2010 Opinions are divided on whether euthanasia can be a rational choice. BOB Brown’s post-election call for a conscience vote on the territories’ right to pass euthanasia laws has been criticised for being a distraction from issues that really matter to […]
Algeria
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 076 | Wed 06 Oct 2010 ————————————————————— ALGERIA: SOCIETY PROTESTS ISLAMISATION AS CHRISTIANS FACE COURT ————————————————————— As in many emerging Muslim democracies, hard-line Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria have secured the balance of power and are emerging as skilful politicians and experts in the art of quid pro quo. Armed […]
Puns for Educated Minds
Puns for Educated Minds 1.The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2.I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . 3.She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. […]
R U Ok ?
RU OK? Thursday October 7 is RU Ok? Day in Australia. Aim: we ask family/friends if they’re OK, to help prevent little problems escalating into big ones. (See http://www.ruokday.com.au/content/what-is-r-u-ok-day.aspx ) Now, here’s an interesting idea: maybe we could occasionally respond to someone – real or imaginary – asking “RU Ok?” and covenant to be supportive […]
Discernment: binding and loosing
One of the most underutilised or misunderstood of the NT processes for ethical and doctrinal discernment as that of ‘binding and loosing’, most comprehensively outlined in Matthew 18 but also elsewhere. That is, that if we think someone is in error, then we go to them while it’s just the two of us; if it’s […]
Pray for the World October 4, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * HAS OBAMA AWAKENED THE EVANGELICAL VOTE? * PRAYER ALERT FOR PAKISTAN * ALGERIA CLOSES TWO CHURCHES FOR “MISSIONISING” * EVANGELICALS BACK POPE’S STAND ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM * EXTORTION DEMANDS ON CHRISTIAN CLERGY IN NEPAL * HUNDREDS OF MUSLIM RADICALS ESCAPE FROM PRISON IN NIGERIA * EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY IS […]
Human Rights – the latest (October 2010)
Battlegrounds for belief Barney Zwartz September 18, 2010 WHICH groups of Australians most worry other Australians? Muslims, gays and – astonishingly – witches. That apparently anachronistic result appears in a survey of public submissions to a national inquiry into freedom of religion and belief in the 21st century, from which the draft report was submitted […]
David Suzuki: Ecological Idealist
When there’s a choice about our caring for the earth between the needs of grandchildren/human relationships and short-term monetary profits, Suzuki is the best contemporary exponent of ‘the more responsible way’. I’d call him a prophet – conveying messages which are so true they’re hurtful, and often uncomfortable. He’s sometimes described as ‘one of the […]
Burma: pray for ethnic minorities
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ———————————————————————– *The Gathering Crisis in Burma ¢â‚¬â„¢s Ethnic Minority States* ———————————————————————– October 1, 2010 A majority of Burma ¢â‚¬â„¢s estimated 2.1 million Christians, mostly from ethnic minorities, live in states along the country ¢â‚¬â„¢s border which are most vulnerable to Burmese military regime ¢â‚¬â„¢s brutalities in the run-up to and after the November 7 […]
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF A BISHOP-VICTIM
By Geoffrey Robinson ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 1 OCT 2010 BISHOP GEOFFREY ROBINSON WAS AUXILIARY BISHOP IN THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY FROM 1984 UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 2004. In the middle of the 1990s I found myself in a situation which I now recognise as bizarre. I was a bishop and the leader of […]
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