Rowland Croucher
Marriage Blues
A man goes to see the Rabbi. ‘Rabbi, something terrible is happening and I have to talk to you about it.’ The Rabbi asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ The man replied, ‘My wife is poisoning me.’ The Rabbi, very surprised by this, asks,’How can that be?’ The man then pleads, ‘I’m telling you, I’m certain she’s poisoning […]
Parenting Teenagers
Eugene H Peterson, Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up With Your Teenager (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994 [1976]) My fear is that when my children turn teenagers I won’t understand them. I am reminded of this underlying anxiety when they, now in their primary school years, express disappointment in my decisions. When the emotional storms escalate, I suspect […]
The Best Books I’ve Ever Read
My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/ evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten-plus years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that influenced me at the time. Remember, I’m not back there, stuck where-I-was. I was brought up in a ‘gentle fundamentalist’ church (Open or Plymouth Brethren) and I’m still […]
Universalism: Will God Empty Hell?
The following is an excerpt from my book LIVE! (Meditations and prayers on 22 Big Questions! In several Bible colleges I have asked the students to answer, without too much time to think, this question: ¢â‚¬ËœDoes God love the devil? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Invariably the responses are equally divided between ¢â‚¬ËœYes ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœNo ¢â‚¬â„¢ and ¢â‚¬ËœDon ¢â‚¬â„¢t know. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Of course, God is […]
Religious Freedom Threatened Around the World – May 2010
US panel faults Obama for lagging on religious freedom The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has said in its annual report to Congress and the White House. “The problems are above and beyond what we saw last year, and the administration […]
Indonesia: Threats to Pluralism
Christian leader ‘alarmed’ about threats to Indonesia’s pluralism Life is becoming difficult and dangerous for Christians in Indonesia because of outside extremists, the head of a grouping of churches in the Muslim-majority nation has warned. “For centuries, Muslims and Christians have been living in harmony and have been coexisting peacefully, but agents (from outside) of […]
A HYMN FOR MODERN TIMES (How would you respond to her?)
A hymn for modern times Roz Kaveney guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 May 2010 13.57 BST The creeping limping feet of worn-out gods Disturb my sleep; the rotten little sods After my soul again, that much is clear. They want my love, or failing that my fear I used to be immune to all their chat but […]
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE (Walter Wink)
Author: Walter Wink Walter Wink is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in NYC. He has taught at numerous seminaries. He is a United Methodist minister, works for a Presbyterian seminary, and attends Quaker meetings. His books include Unmasking the Powers, Engaging the Powers, The Powers That Be, The Bible in Human Transformation, […]
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [4]
Previous article – http://jmm.org.au/articles/23684.htm 3-9 Dialogue: The Way Forward There are many other dimensions of Islam we have not been able to touch. Here we examine what for me is the crux of the matter: How are Christians and Muslims supposed to ‘get along’? Let’s begin with an article by the conservative evangelical Muslim scholar, Dr […]
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [3]
Previous article: http://jmm.org.au/articles/23669.htm ISLAM: Is there a ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically? Some notes from my recent reading: Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). **** 3-6 Jihad, War and Terror John Azumah, from a West African Muslim background, and currently Professor of Islam at […]
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