Rowland Croucher
The House of Lords and Same-Sex Partnerships
March 2010 In a dramatic development, the House of Lords has voted to allow the use of religious premises and religious language in same-sex partnerships. READ ON A Washington wedding. READ ON
Eugene H Peterson, Eat This Word
Eugene H Peterson, Eat This Word: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading Book 2 in the Spiritual Theology series (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) Peterson has a delightful way of elevating the craft of biblical leadership and its foundational skills – focusing our eyes on Jesus, celebrating everyday spirituality, listening to people in […]
Whistleblowers
Who else admires *genuine* (‘The Emperor has no clothes’) WHISTLEBLOWERS? Many Tobacco industry, Toyota, Vioxx people knew about their deadly products… One expert: ‘Put good people (eg. researchers) into a bad system, and the system always wins’. Sociologist Robert Merton: ‘Institutional evil is greater than the sum of the evil of people within them…’ Dawn […]
Labels, labels, and more labels
I remember a story told to me once by some old friends. They had brought up their children in Indonesia, and when their children played with children from other nationalities, their parents decided to ask them one day what colour the other children’s skin was. My friends’ children said they didn’t know. They just saw […]
Blog on Islam (and Israel)
I’d recommending subscribing to http://markdurie.blogspot.com/! ***** Sample: Pamella Geller Interview with Mark Durie Posted: 05 Mar 2010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarkduriecomBlog/~3/vgqhejqNqco/ pamella-geller-interview-with-mark.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email Pamela Geller Blog Radio interview with Mark Durie. Tune in here. /////////////////////////////////////////// Criticism of Israel and Antisemitism: Mr Malcolm Fraser Goes Too Far Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:02 AM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MarkduriecomBlog/~3/ZjH0ItlG-Qo/criticism -of-israel-and-antisemitism-mr.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email The recent assassination of […]
Russia
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 4 March 2010 RUSSIA: CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST READERS OF RELIGIOUS LITERATURE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1416 For the first time in Russia to Forum 18 News […]
Ain’t old age fun?
Bert decided to buy himself a new car for his 89th birthday. His friend, Harry, was unhappy with this decision, because Bert was becoming forgetful. But he agreed to ride with Bert to the dealer to pick up the new car. Bert started the motor and raced down the street. He drove through the stop […]
Quilt of Holes
As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I knelt before the Lord along with all the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives like the squares of a quilt in many piles; an angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. […]
The Community of the Forgiven
I love the idea of the church being a community of the forgiven. The truth which is bandied about – and which I used to see on bumper stickers – of Christians being ‘not perfect, just forgiven’ makes me cringe because it is so often seen as an excuse for our own hypocrisy. At the […]
Twitter Theology
*Twitter Theology: 5 Ways Twitter Has Changed My Life and helped me be a better Disciple of Jesus* *By Leonard Sweet* I have been on twitter for less than a year, but it has already changed my life. Twitter is less than two years old, with fewer than fifty employees and, as far as anyone […]
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