Rowland Croucher
Thought for today: FRIENDS
I WENT OUT TO FIND A FRIEND BUT COULD NOT FIND ONE THERE. I WENT OUT TO BE A FRIEND AND FRIENDS WERE EVERYWHERE! ***** (avagooddayeveryoneunlessyou’vemadeotherarrangements) 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
WHAT CAN WE BELIEVE?
Snoopy was typing a manuscript, up on his kennel. Charlie Brown: ¢â‚¬ËœWhat are you doing, Snoopy? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Snoopy: ¢â‚¬ËœWriting a book about theology. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Charlie Brown: ¢â‚¬ËœGood grief. What ¢â‚¬â„¢s its title? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Snoopy (thoughtfully): ¢â‚¬ËœHave You Ever Considered You Might Be Wrong? ¢â‚¬â„¢ This points up a central Christian dictum: God ¢â‚¬â„¢s truth is very much bigger than our little […]
Catholic tricks :-)
One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse – a very long shot – won the […]
The Way Home: memories of a railroad to the city
By Harry T. Cook 7/9/10 For a considerable term of years, home was a small village (pop. 150 in the 1940 census) in the lake region of northwestern Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It was there that my father, mother, two sisters and I began to weave a fabric of traditions into a history. Yet I could […]
Antony Flew, the atheist philosopher who became a theist
Professor Antony Flew, the rationalist philosopher who died on April 8 aged 87, spent much of his life denying the existence of God until, in 2004, he dramatically changed his mind. 13 Apr 2010 Flew always described himself as a “negative atheist”, asserting that “theological propositions can neither be verified nor falsified by experience”, a […]
Gay clergy?
Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, written by Jack Rogers, a Presbyterian pastor and former PCUSA moderator, who has been quoted as saying he agrees with the conservatives in his denomination on nearly everything except this issue. by Rev. Peter M. Wallace Posted: July 20, 2010 Gay Clergy: God’s Spirit at Work? My friend […]
Religion in Schools
*Sightings* 7/26/10 Classroom Controversy — Martin E. Marty Anyone who spends over a half century at the center and the margins of higher academe, as I have, knows better than to get involved with tenure disputes or hirings and firings of faculty. The further away from the scene of conflict one is, the dimmer the […]
INTERNATIONAL NEWS 26th July 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * DHIMMITUDE OR DEATH IN WEST JAVA * IRANIANS STILL FACE DEATH BY STONING DESPITE REPRIEVE * THREE QUARTERS OF U.S. MOSQUES PREACH ANTI-WESTERN EXTREMISM * AUSTRALIA PROVIDES $50 MILLION TO PNG CHURCHES * MORE MOROCCAN CHRISTIANS EXPELLED * CHURCH ATTENDANCE UP IN AMERICA ———————————————– DHIMMITUDE OR DEATH IN WEST JAVA […]
God’s wounds, God’s weakness
Here is a poem written by Edward Shillito, a man who survived the brutal and barbarous First War War: ———— If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow, We must have Thee, O Jesus of the […]
WAS JESUS GOD?
In the 1960s I spent several years wandering around the campuses of Australia (as an InterVarsity Fellowship staffworker). Here’s an evangelistic broadsheet which was reproduced a six-figure number of times, and provided the raw material for a talk I gave in many universities and colleges and church youth-groups. It has an ‘undergraduate’ feel to it […]
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