Rowland Croucher
THE DECLINE OF MAINLINE CHURCHES
Mainline Decline and the “So What” Question I’ve cited Walter Russell Mead’s critical perspective on the Episcopal Church (and mainline churches more generally) in earlier postings. In a recent essay, Mead addresses the complex question, “Where Did the Mainline Go Wrong?” “As a whole,” Mead writes, “the mainline churches are now making the transition from […]
The Saving power of technology(?)
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I love technology. I love living in the 21st century with all its gadgets, and I’m continually amazed at what we are able to do now that we couldn’t do even 5 years ago. Who knows what we’ll be able to do in 5 years from now? When a new […]
An Infidel’s Progress
by EMMA BROCKES May 16, 2010 AYAAN Hirsi Ali enters an apartment in New York followed by a bodyguard. The 40-year-old, who for the past six years has been unable to turn up at a venue without it being checked by security, is a writer, polemicist and critic of Islam. She is also a Somali […]
PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER June 1, 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * NEPAL: VIOLENT UPRISING EXPECTED * PRAY FOR IRAN AS EXECUTIONS TAKE PLACE * POLL SHOWS 70% OF IRISH OPPOSE ABORTION * STUDY ALLEGES COVER UP OF HONOUR VIOLENCE IN BRITAIN * FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYS AMERICA NEEDS THE TOUCH OF JESUS * MUSLIM STUDENTS STAGE SIT-IN TO SUPPORT CHRISTIAN COLLEAGUES IN […]
The Global Warming Debate
Warming’s icy debate ADAM MORTON February 13, 2010 IT LARGELY went unreported, but January was the hottest on record. Taking a slightly wider lens, the three-month block between November and January also set a new benchmark. The record-breaking heat in the lower troposphere – the part of the atmosphere closest to the earth – came […]
Bad Day
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. […]
A spirit of sound mind: Notes on a scam
2 Timothy 1:7 states “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” This sound mind should be able to exercise sound judgement. In light of this, I seek to provide an example, based on the last week or so of John Mark […]
Two Naughty Boys
(An old one, but some of you may not have seen this): Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous. They are always getting into trouble and their parents know if any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved. The boys’ mother heard that a preacher in town had […]
A good answer I can understand
An American tourist asks an Irishman: “Why do Scuba divers always fall Backwards off their boats?” To which the Irishman replies: “If they fell forwards they’d still be in the *&%”x* boat.”
Crabby old man
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in North Platte, Nebraska , it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made […]
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