Rowland Croucher
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Hi friends, (Updated May 2014) [1] CANCER SCARE: My wife – of 54 wonderful years – Jan has suffered a couple of serious health issues in the last 12 months (mainly Pulmonary Embolism, and an aggressive form of Uterine Cancer + a few other medical issues). See here for updates. (Rev.) […]
MINORITIES
Welcome to the age of minorities! Small, highly organised groups of committed people are addressing single issues and wielding enormous political power. Greenies, freeway protesters, women’s libbers, homosexuals, dissident trade unions and all the rest have leant how to make their point with powerful and impressive results. Without making an assessment of the worth of […]
PERSECUTION UPDATE – JUNE 2010
June 2010 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. * EGYPT: CHRISTIAN TEENAGE BROTHERS LOSE COURT CASE * INDIA: BRUTAL MURDER […]
Hermeneutics: Conservative vs. Liberal
Biblical Literalists – like Creationists who interpret the Genesis stories in the Hebrew Bible literally – then move to a ‘scientific’ young earth rationale. Christian ‘liberal’ theologians start from ‘rational scientific’ presuppositions to doubting miracles, prayer, even the existence of God, etc. A plague on both their houses! (Summary/precis of Richard Rohr’s ideas – see […]
The Owl and the Grasshopper
This is an old parable about the grasshopper who decided to consult the hoary consultant of the animal kingdom, the owl, about a personal problem. The problem concerned the fact that the grasshopper suffered each winter from severe pains due to the savage temperature. After a number of these painful winters, in which all of […]
Jews – ‘Chosen People?’ (Martin Marty)
*Sightings* 6/14/10 Chosen People — Martin E. Marty The grand theological themes don ¢â‚¬â„¢t fade or disappear from headlines or prime time. ¢â‚¬Å“Being chosen, ¢â‚¬ as in the case of biblical or modern Israel, is the grand theological theme today. My clippings and blog-printout file bulges with records of renewed debates over what it means to be […]
PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER June 14, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ANGER OVER FIRST BRITISH TV ABORTION ADVERTISEMENT * FURTHER WAVE OF DEPORTATIONS HIT FOREIGN CHRISTIANS IN MOROCCO * INDIAN HINDUS THREATEN TO DRIVE AWAY CHRISTIANS * SAMARITAN’S PURSE STAFF ABDUCTED IN THE SUDAN * PREGNANT WOMAN TOLD SHE WAS CARRYING HANDICAPPTED TWINS REFUSES ABORTION * TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD D RETURNS […]
An Oz Pome: Ode to Canetodia
(Maybe around a campfire you and your mates could add a stanza or two to this roughie): I am an Ozzie Drongo, And Vote for Polly Fella; E’en as he Morphs, in Nullabore, To Macaw, from Rosella. For in the Land of Dingo, The Bunnies, they are rife. ‘Round Electoral Sea, the Sharks do prowl, […]
Jesus and ‘myth’ (C. S. Lewis)
C.S. Lewis on ‘Myth Become Fact’, Surprised by Joy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1955), 236. I was by now too experienced in literary criticism to regard the Gospels as myths. They had not the mythical taste. And yet the very matter which they set down in their artless, historical fashion ¢â‚¬” those narrow, unattractive jews, too […]
How a Space-station gets put together
Look at what happened from 1998 until 2008. In just eleven years, it has grown and grown. Watch the pieces come together as they are sent up from Earth. This is the International Space Station (ISS) Assembly diagram, piece by piece. What a piece of engineering!! Click below: http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm
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