Rowland Croucher
What Would Jesus Do? Try this: The Songs of Jesse Adams
Book Review: The Songs of Jesse Adams, Peter McKinnon, Acorn 2014. ¢â‚¬ËœWWJD? ¢â‚¬â„¢ has been a very popular slogan in Evangelical Christianity since the days of the Jesus People in the 60s/70s. Every Christian pastor has preached or counseled asking ¢â‚¬Å“If Jesus came to [our town] what would he be doing? Who would he be […]
Thinking: ‘It Hurts too Much!’
Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain than being made to sit and think Report from psychologists at Virginia and Harvard Universities tackles question of why most of us find it so hard to do nothing A woman alone with her thoughts on a couch. The researchers have learned that people hate being left […]
The counter-cultural life of surrender
by Nils Von Kalm ¢â‚¬Å“Surrender ¢â‚¬ is not a popular concept in our culture. It speaks of submission, of giving up and of letting someone else control our lives. Yet when we are surrendered to Christ, we find that we are given the life we have always been searching for. The way of Christ is counter-cultural […]
Asylum-seekers: are most of them economic refugees?
Lethal cost of kindness to asylum seekers on the high seas ANDREW BOLT HERALD SUN JULY 03, 2014 Note from Rowland: I’m frankly not interested in ‘shock-jock’ Andrew Bolt’s views, but am happy to employ him as a research assistant 🙂 A boat carrying asylum seekers arrives in the port of Geraldton, Western Australia. Up-sized. […]
Welfare bureaucracy: quite an experience…
There are no benefits for a soul waiting here Date June 27, 2014 Barry Dickins Centrelink or Missinglink was my response to the humiliation I received when seeking both Newstart and Disability Pension at my local centre. To begin with it took three-and-a-half hours to be put down. I waited on a rather good-looking easy […]
Asylum-seekers & 50% chance of torture…
Punting on a person’s life is another form of torture Date: 29/06/2014 Publication: The Sunday Age Sending asylum seekers ‘home’ is a cruel gamble, writes Warwick McFadyen. Australians like a bet. We’re one of the bettingest countries on Earth. Horses, greyhounds, footy matches, they’re all fair game for a bet. Two flies on the wall? […]
Arab states – quo vadis?
JUNE 24, 2014 Thomas L. Friedman The past month has presented the world with what the Israeli analyst Orit Perlov describes as the two dominant Arab governing models: ISIS and SISI. ISIS, of course, is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the bloodthirsty Sunni militia that has gouged out a new state from Sunni […]
Dairy foods and cancer
Will giving up dairy defeat cancer? Date June 3, 2014 Cherrill Hicks Photo: James Davies In 1993, the breast cancer that had plagued Jane Plant since 1987 returned for the fifth time. It came in the shape of a secondary tumour – a lump in her neck the size of half a boiled egg. Doctors […]
Gluten Intolerance: Just a Myth?
Gluten intolerance – myth or misunderstood? June 27, 2014 Gluten-free foods.Photo: Eddie Jim Andrew Masterson On current assumptions, about 1 million Australians today will go to significant effort and expense to consume foods that are free of gluten. A significant number ¢â‚¬“ about 1 per cent of the population ¢â‚¬“ will do so because they […]
Vatican: Most Catholics reject teaching on contraception, sex
A typical headline calling attention to the forthcoming (October) Vatican conference of bishops reads: ¢â‚¬Å“Vatican: Most Catholics reject our teachings on contraception, sex. ¢â‚¬ The bishops are convening to deal with these often-rejected teachings. Some supporters of the Church ¢â‚¬â„¢s teachings soften the edge on the rejection theme. Thus the LifeSiteNews headline: ¢â‚¬Å“Most Catholics don ¢â‚¬â„¢t know […]
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