Rowland Croucher
F W Boreham: Angels, Palms and Fragrant Flowers
F W Boreham: Angels, Palms and Fragrant Flowers (F W Boreham on Spurgeon), John Broadbanks Publishing, 2009. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was probably heard by more people in the second half of the 19th Century than any other English-speaking preacher. (Another Baptist preacher – Billy Graham – is said to have been heard in face-to-face […]
British Pilot
A British Airways pilot was taxi-ing to take off at Frankfurt Airport. “NO!” screams the ground controller, “YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!! HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN TO FRANKFURT BEFORE??” “Yes,” replies the pilot, “back in 1944, but it was dark and we didn’t land.”
Lifestyle conversions
Jim Wallis Founder of Sojourners; speaker, author, activist Posted: February 24, 2010 Last month, I joined tens of thousands of Americans in donating to relief organizations after Haiti’s cataclysmic earthquake. Today, we continue to give in many ways — planning rebuilding assistance trips through our churches, picking up the slack for co-workers who are away […]
Faith
Sister Mary Ann, who worked for a home health agency, was out making her rounds visiting homebound patients when she ran out of petrol. As luck would have it, a Shell Petrol station was just a block away. She walked to the station to borrow a can and buy some petrol. The attendant told her […]
Solzhenitsyn: Postmodern Moralist
by Robert Inchausti Dr. Inchausti is assistant professor of English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. This article appeared in the Christian Century November 14, 1984, p. 1066. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared […]
Robert Inchausti: Subversive Orthodoxy
Note from Rowland (Feb. 25. 2010): Robert Inchausti, also author of a couple of books about Thomas Merton, also Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation, and The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People… He is professor of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. I only recently discovered this author, and he’s brilliant. I don’t […]
Christians kidnapped and murdered in Mosul, Iraq
CIRCULATION CODE 3. OPEN. May be circulated to general mailing lists, outside organizations, and quoted from freely in reports citing “Middle East Concern” as the source of the information. From an informed/reliable source. 26 February 2010 Last week we requested prayer for Iraqi Christians in the city of Mosul and surrounding areas. Recall that several […]
Turkey, Iran, Egypt
February 26, 2010 CIRCULATION CODE 3. OPEN. May be circulated to general mailing lists, outside organizations, and quoted from freely in reports citing “Middle East Concern” as the source of the information. Turkish Christians have requested our continued prayers for several legal cases in their country. Our most recent prayer request concerning Hakan and Turan, […]
In Toyota We Trust
*Sightings* 2/25/10 — Frances M. Leap The nearly-blanket news coverage that Toyota and its unraveling have received from all media, but especially NPR, is an indicator of much more than a slow news time, which it is not. The massive recalls seem to be a faith crisis for an entire segment of our population. Who […]
Palestinian Christians and nonviolent resistance
While it’s important to raise awareness of Palestinian nonviolence movements as an alternative to broadly held stereotypes, it’s also important to demonstrate that such movements have the potential for success. READ ON Making it personal: the Kairos Palestine document. READ ON A Palestinian Christian call to end the occupation. READ ON
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