Rowland Croucher
Mixed Orientation Marriages [2]
I’ve just Googled Mixed Orientation Marriages, and found these at the top of their list of sites. Note that most of the articles listed do not have an explicit Christian approach. **** Mixed-orientation marriage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the more general concept, see Mixed marriage A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage between a […]
Mixed Orientation Marriages [1] — Issues and Possibilities for Gay/Straight Marriages
Yesterday (2 July 2010) I put this on to Facebook: Friends: I counsel couples from time to time where one of the partners is gay/lesbian and the other is heterosexual. A hundred complex questions arise in these sessions, but one which I find most difficult to answer is: ‘*Rowland, do you know of any committed […]
The Pope and Abuse-victims
A comment from a concerned abuse-victim culled from a larger conversation July 2, 2010 Ratzinger was much more than part of “a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction” – it was during his time in charge of CDF that CDF tried (but thankfully failed, due to outrage among clergy abuse victims) to […]
Lightning Strikes and Divine Disfavor
— Adam Darlage As mentioned in last week ¢â‚¬â„¢s *Sightings,* until recently drivers on the stretch of I-75 between Cincinnati and Dayton had the opportunity to contemplate the six-story (62 ft.) Jesus statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, on the northbound side of the highway. On the night of Monday, June 14, however, […]
Atheism, Comparative Religion and more…
Apologia Report: Surveying New Resources in Christian Apologetics – a weekly e-mail briefing in worldview news and study designed to help bring understanding to an age-old arena of conflict Volume 15: Number 24 (1,029) June 30, 2010 In this issue: ATHEISM – new atheists come under fire from “the father of Intelligent Design” CHURCH HISTORY […]
Religious Liberty News from Around the World (June 2010)
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 062 | Wed 30 Jun 2010 WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. ‘And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and […]
The Naked Now (Richard Rohr) (2) The Dualistic vs Non-Dualistic Minds
Here are some generalizations from Richard Rohr’s book The Naked Now. Of course generalizations invoke ‘yes but’ retorts. Rohr deals with these – adequately in my view – in the book, but here I’m simply compressing the whole thing into ‘headlines’. Read his book for the whole story, and don’t be put off by these […]
THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS WE DON’T NEED TO HAVE
This is an edited script of a speech given by Per Pinstrup-Anderson, Professor of food nutrition and public policy at Cornell University, New York in Sydney recently. We face a global food shortage, the like of which the world has never seen. How do I know that? I have read books, articles and blogs that […]
Voices for Justice 2010 – stories of hope and prophetic engagement
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com “The gospel deals with the whole man, not only his soul, but his body; not only his spiritual well-being, but his material well-being … Any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul, […]
Protestants repent for churches’ role in oppressing First Nations
June 28, 2010 A global Protestant body representing 80 million Christians has issued an apology for the role played by churches in perpetrating abuse against Native Americans, First Nations and other Indigenous peoples. “We ¢â‚¬ ¦ repent of our history littered with ways in which we have betrayed Gospel values of justice, fairness, and love for […]
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