Rowland Croucher
How our minds have changed
Sep 23, 2010 by LaVonne Neff Computers are changing the way we think. “Calm, focused, un distracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts ¢â‚¬”the faster, the better.” This is probably not a […]
Western Civilization: If God Goes, the West Goes
Ray Evans From time to time events occur which illuminate clearly the forces at work in the world. In 1988 Jesse Jackson organised demonstrations at Stanford University, one of the most expensive and prestigious centres of learning in the USA. Spearheading the multiculturalists’ crusade against Stanford’s Western Civilization core curriculum for freshmen, Mr Jackson led […]
ADDRESS TO OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (Father Frank Brennan)
Game on for Parliament FRANK BRENNAN SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 It seems almost an eternity ago that we heard those words, ‘Game on’. We congratulate those who have been re-elected to the Parliament. We express our prayerful best wishes to those elected for the first time, including Australia’s first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives. […]
READING THE BIBLE WITH THE POOR
*Sightings* 9/30/2010 *Reading the Bible in South Africa* — James Hoke The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrated the unity and capability of the new South Africa. Despite doubts and negative press from around the world, South Africa rose to the occasion by producing stunning new soccer stadiums, making its streets safe and accessible, hosting big-screen […]
STANLEY HAUERWAS: theologian
THE PRIVATE STANLEY HAUERWAS AND HIS PUBLIC THEOLOGY By Bruce Kaye ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 30 SEP 2010 EVEN HIS MOST FEROCIOUS CRITICS AGREE THAT STANLEY HAUERWAS IS TOO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE. In 2001 Time magazine described Stanley Hauerwas as the best theologian in America. He thought this was hugely ironic and, at the […]
‘The Aboriginal Problem: let the full-bloods die out’
Message from a friend on Facebook (30 September 2010): It was not until 1967 that the Australian Govt changed the following policy: In Hansard is recorded – “Let the full bloods die out, breed the colour out of the rest and we’ll never know that we had an aboriginal problem…” [ I can give you […]
Megachurches: ‘I have to admit: I don’t get it’
From Rowland: I wonder if he shops at Supermarkets? See my article on megachurches – http://jmm.org.au/articles/19701.htm ***** I have to admit: I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t get it September 27, 2010 by Chaplain Mike This is all kind of off the top of my head, so take it for what it is ¢â‚¬”an impromptu rant. OK, this may seem […]
Euthanasia Debate
From a friend who is a surgeon – In my pracice, in which I saw a new cancer of the lung every week day, over half of these patients would die, but on only oneoccasion did I have a patient ask for help to die. They all ask for help in dying, but not my […]
Pray for the World September 29, 2010
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 075 | Wed 29 Sep 2010 WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. —————————————————————- SEPTEMBER 2010 UPDATE — During September we prayed concerning . . . USA, where a church in Florida had globally advertised an ‘International Burn a Koran Day’ for 9/11. * UPDATE: […]
Big Googler is doing the thinking for you
September 29, 2010 IN AN often quoted piece, Is Google making us stupid?, published in The Atlantic two years ago, former Harvard Business Review editor Nicholas Carr made the provocative argument that the ease of online searching and browsing affected our ability to concentrate. Carr wrote: ”My mind isn’t going – so far as I […]
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