Rowland Croucher
People Who’ve Changed Their Minds
History Shows That Famous Thinkers Also Get It Wrong. And they admit it Cover Story, Sunday Magazine When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators, at the annual request of the edge.org website, answered the following question: “What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?” […]
What does it take to get people to decide they were wrong?
The curious thing is how few people have changed their minds on Iraq By John Rentoul Sunday, 30 May 2004 What does it take to get people to decide they were wrong? What is remarkable about the invasion and the occupation of Iraq is how few people have changed their mind about the original decision […]
Why Be a Vegetarian?
Jonathan Safran Foer joins Lateline Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 26/03/2010 Reporter: Tony Jones Vegetarian US novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who set out to research ethics of what we eat to see if he would ever be able to justify it to his son, joins Lateline. TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Three years ago the American novelist Jonathon […]
Ending Well
Finishing Strong/Ending Well: Leaving Congregational Ministry at the Top of Your Game Pastoral Resources From the Alban Institute By Roy M. Oswald Pastors nearing retirement often find themselves living the paradox of possessing a rich reservoir of accumulated wisdom and yet feeling constrained by a depleted spirit. But the 5 to 7 years prior to […]
Religion and Animals
Sightings 10/22/09 On Muslims and Miniature Horses — Spencer Dew Last week’s Sightings explored religion’s horrific side, discussing a Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of videos showing animal deaths. The content of the videos under judgment ranges from demonstrations of hogs being killed by dogs (in hunting and training scenarios), to images of deadly […]
Prayer Network Newsletter 22nd March 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * HOUSE OF LORDS VOTE TO ALLOW CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS TO TAKE PLACE IN CHURCH * TURNING HETEROSEXUAL CHILDREN INTO CRIMINALS * IRANIAN MUSLIM COUPLE COME TO CHRIST * 500 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN RELIGIOUS CLASHES IN NIGERIA * ABORTION RATE IN U.S. FALLS TO IT’S LOWEST LEVEL IN DECADES * U.K. MUSLIM […]
Ponderisms
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a […]
Why was Jesus so secretive?
One of the striking features in Mark’s Gospel is how often Jesus tells people not to spread the word of what he has done. Why does he do this? Isn’t ours a missionary faith? Weren’t the 12 told to go throughout all the world and make disciples? Indeed they were, but it was only after […]
Attaining Our Nothingness
From an online friend: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Union with God is not possible without feeling like we are nothing. But what is this feeling? I can’t describe it myself. I imagine it’s like knowing that whatever actions we take we can see that all actions are do to the work of God. We become […]
Archbishop of Canterbury praises British Muslims for bringing back religion and ethics into public life
(Now here’s a novel take on dialogue with Muslims): Archbishop of Canterbury praises British Muslims for bringing back religion and ethics into public life Thank You UK Muslims: Rowan Williams IslamOnline.net & Newspapers CAIRO — In an unprecedented move by a Western Christian leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has praised British Muslims for bringing […]
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