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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Illegal border-crossing

Note from Rowland: This is a mix of truth and bigotry (the ‘red-neck’-type bigotry has to do with a lack of feeling for those less fortunate, who simply want to make a better life for themselves and their families – and what’s wrong with that? We or our ancestors – all of them – were […]

Islam and the dhimma pact

27 May 2010 03:29 This article was published in the National Observer. It is a condensation of Chapter 6 of The Third Choice, which discusses the theological and legal status of the dhimma pact, in the light of Sura 9:29 of the Quran. ============== National Observer, Australia, No. 82 (March – May 2010) Islam and […]

Body Image

*Sightings* 5/27/10 The New Religion of Body Improvement — Jeremy Biles  ¢â‚¬Å“The worldwide pursuit of body improvement has become like a new religion, ¢â‚¬  says photographer Zed Nelson in the introduction to his latest book, *Love Me*. His photos therein depict in loving, lurid detail evidences of bodily fanaticism around the globe  ¢â‚¬“ a preposterously muscled […]

Don’t Tell Lies :-)

John was a salesman’s delight when it came to any kind of unusual gimmick. His wife Marsha had long ago given up trying to get him to change. One day John came home with another one of his unusual purchases. It was a robot that John claimed was actually a lie detector. It was about […]

Christian Dating Sites

Christianity may be the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s most popular faith, with billions of believers in the afterlife, but to the mainstream secular world, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s also the number-one subject of ridicule. Not that much has changed over the centuries. Christians have long endured persecution for their beliefs. And instead of separating themselves from the world around them and […]

Global catastrophe is already here

Bill McKibben ¢â‚¬â„¢s Brave New Eaarth (No, That ¢â‚¬â„¢s Not a Typo) by LaVonne Neff 05-25-2010 A couple of weeks ago I read Paul Greenberg ¢â‚¬â„¢s excellent review,  ¢â‚¬Å“Hot Planet, Cold Facts, ¢â‚¬  of Bill McKibben ¢â‚¬â„¢s newest book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. I immediately put a hold on it at the public library. It […]

The Billy Graham team remembers…

An Evening to Remember What the Graham team continues to communicate with or without words Gordon MacDonald | posted 5/24/2010 A few days ago I journeyed to The Cove – the Billy Graham Training Center in Asheville, North Carolina – to participate in a small two-day discussion between pastors and business leaders. After dinner on […]

Religious Persecution – Iraq, Indonesia, Eritrea, Iran, Laos, Morocco, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam,

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 057 | Wed 26 May 2010 WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. ————————————————– MAY 2010 UPDATE — During May we prayed concerning . . . IRAQ, where the indigenous Assyrian-Chaldean Christian population is besieged by escalating Muslim fundamentalism (that marginalises, discriminates against and persecutes) […]

MAILING A BIBLE :-)

Mailing a Bible There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. “Is there anything breakable in here?” asked the postal clerk. “Only the Ten Commandments,” answered the lady.

RELIGIOUS TRENDS – Evolution, Pluralism, Roman Catholicism, Science

. 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 20 (1,025) May 26, 2010 In this issue: ORIGINS – Bruce Waltke resigns over evolution statement RELIGIOUS PLURALISM – Stephen Prothero exposes […]