Rowland Croucher
Climate change needs a plain English guide
BRUCE MAPSTONE July 13, 2010 The science is solid but popular understanding of climate change lags. Scientists at the University of East Anglia have emerged from the six-month ”climategate” inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact. The challenge for scientists across the world now, however, is to communicate clearly the realities of climate change to […]
Pray for the World July 13, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * U.S.A. RETAINS BAN ON HOMOSEXUALS DONATING BLOOD * TOP CHRISTIAN LAWYER APPLAUDS PAKISTANI CHIEF JUSTICE FOR PROTECTING MINORITIES * RIGHTS OF CHRISTIAN GROUPS ON CAMPUS CHALLENGED IN U.S. COURT * SRI LANKAN STUDY SHOWS ABORTION TRIPLES RATE OF BREAST CANCER * PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES STEPS TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AROUND […]
Beyond the ‘God Gap’ – shattering stereotypes
*Sightings* 7/12/10 Reporting on the God Gap — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“A New Roadmap for Reaching Religious Americans on Public Policy Issues ¢â‚¬ is the subtitle for *Beyond the God Gap, *a 49-page report and chart for those who are trying to find their way among religious groups as they show up in politics and culture. […]
Leadership Next
In Eddie Gibbs’ book Leadership Next, there’s a list where on page 57 he quotes Halan Cleveland’s eight attitudes indispensable to managing complexity (from Cleveland’s Nobody in Charge, San Francisco”: Jossey-Bass, 2002, p.119). – Lively intellectual curiosity; an interest in everything, because everything is related to everything else and what we are doing – Genuine […]
The Subtle Signs of Impending Conflict
One of the amazing phenomena in the life of the local congregation is the apparent ease with which conflict seems to sneak up out of the blue and catch everybody by surprise. It is all the more remarkable when it is realised that the signals of impending trauma will have been around for a while […]
In Defence of Little Old Ladies
Uncertainties about the value of pastoral visitation are sometimes expressed by busy ministers in the well worn declaration, “I do not have the time to have cups of tea with little old ladies.” Now what’s wrong with cups of tea and, more particularly, with little old ladies who apparently do not need active pastoral interest? […]
Baby Boomers – What Should Our Response Be?
These days every pastor probably has a dray load of books and articles on baby boomers. These products of the post war period have been variously described as self centred, consumer driven, highly mobile, not given to making long term commitments, distrustful of institutions and highly focussed when it comes to meeting their own needs. […]
C. S. Lewis’s ‘Trilemma’
“Identity Check” by Donald T. Williams — opens: “No argument that C.S. Lewis ever made is more well known – or more controversial – than his famous ‘Trilemma’ (not his word), or ‘Lord/Liar/Lunatic’ (not his phrase) argument for the deity of Christ” found in Mere Christianity, book II, chapter 3 [1]. Williams summarizes that “the […]
Nagla al-Imam, convert to Christianity, sings about religious persecution
Saturday, July 10, 2010 This is an extraordinarily courageous YouTube video of Nagla Al-Imam, an Egyptian attorney and prominent human rights activist, who has recently converted from Islam to Christ. In this video she sings a spiritual song together with her two children, asking Christ to hold their hands and strengthen them as they go […]
Modern Exorcism
Modern Exorcism: Trading Autonomy for Demonology — Joseph Laycock Last month, a feature in the online magazine Details told the story of Kevin Robinson, a gay teenager from Connecticut. Brought up in a Pentecostal household, Kevin first came out to his family when he was sixteen. His mother, refusing to accept homosexuality as a natural […]
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