Rowland Croucher
Future generations will wonder, what were they thinking?
Kwame Anthony Appiah September 29, 2010 Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father’s duty, homosexuality was a hanging offence, and waterboarding was approved. Through the middle of the 19th century, slavery was condoned and women were forbidden to vote. Well into the 20th century, lynch mobs in America […]
Borg & Wright – The Meaning of Jesus
A very interesting book, this one… Marcus Borg (about as liberal as a Christian can get, if not more so) and NT Wright (fairly conservative) discuss who Jesus was/is, who he thought he was, what he did, etc In general, Borg takes the line that Jesus was a man (but not God) who in some […]
Politics and Religion
THE LEFT AND THE POLITICS OF ATHEISM By John Milbank ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 28 SEP 2010 JUST MONTHS AFTER THE ALP APPOINTED ITS FIRST OPENLY ATHEIST LEADER, THE LABOUR PARTY IN BRITAIN HAS FOLLOWED SUIT BY ELEVATING OF ED MILIBAND TO LEADER. Just months after the Australian Labor Party appointed its first openly […]
America’s Decline in Church Attendance
*Sightings* 9/26/2010 — Martin E. Marty Pope Benedict XVI has expressed grave concern over the decline of church participation in Western Europe. His trip to the UK last week provided opportunities for him to address it. Most commentators in religious and secular communications found almost nothing that he said or did which might help reverse […]
HEALTHY CHURCHES AROUND THE WORLD (and some others)
I spend my life trying to answer the question ‘What does a healthy church look like?’ When asked to speak on this subject I can offer anything from two sentences to a week. The two-sentence version: Healthy churches are very committed churches: their text is the middle two verses of the Bible – ‘Bless the […]
Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World by Barbara Ehrenreich Jenni Murray salutes a long-overdue demolition of the suggestion that positive thinking is the answer to all our problems The Observer, Sunday 10 January 2010 Every so often a book appears that so chimes with your own thinking, yet flies so […]
Climate Change Apathy
Flannery warns of climate change apathy April 12, 2010 & September 26, 2010 The half-asleep look on a koala’s face is a reminder that not all creatures use their brains in responding to the harsh reality of climate change, a leading climate scientist says. Speaking at an International Federation of Surveyors Congress in Sydney today, […]
Hoon Behavior is on the Rise: Why?
Poor decisions of our own helped rise in hoon behaviour Peter Gebhardt September 27, 2010 Magistrate Robert Kumar, at Broadmeadows, asked some very pertinent questions in the course of his hearing of matters arising from illegal drag races at Campbellfield last March. He said, “All these young people – there must be something very wrong. […]
World Poverty (Tim Costello)
Note from Rowland: I spent an exciting/strategic decade with World Vision – and we talked about most of this back then (in the 1980s). But (my former parishioner) Tim Costello has the commitment, contacts, and intelligence to put this into practice. Terrific! ***** World Vision CEO and potential parliamentarian Tim Costello wants to change the […]
Pray for the World 27 September, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CHRISTIAN COPTS LIVING AS SLAVES TO MUSLIMS IN EGYPT * CONGO’S FIRST LADY SAYS “WE NEED YOU LORD” * THREAT TO BURN QURAN MAY INSPIRE HATE CRIME LEGISLATION * PRAYER ALERT – VIOLENCE IN SOMALIA * DISAFFECTED LUTHERANS CONSTITUTE NEW BODY * U.K. TEACHERS RECOGNISE TOXIC CYCLE OF FAMILY BREAKDOWN […]
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