Rowland Croucher
Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri Nouwen
Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri Nouwen by Michael Ford, 1999. Henri Nouwen, with Thomas Merton, were the first 20th century Catholic writers on Christian Spirituality to be widely read among non-Catholics. (And each of them was criticized for ‘never having an unpublished thought.’ ‘Like Merton’, says this biographer, [Nouwen] seemed to feel that, unless […]
Muslims, Christians and World Peace
Accentuate the positive: Dr Muqtedar Khan’s New Year Recipe for World Peace By Mark Durie Friday 1 January, 2010. Dr Muqtedar Khan has written a recent opinion piece, (‘Muhammad’s promise to Christians’, December 30, 2009), calling upon Christians and Muslims to ‘tell and retell positive stories’ about each other, and ‘abstain from mutual demonization’. Pointing […]
Homosexuality, Ethics & Faith: Standing with the Outcast
Jan 02, 2010 Sexuality and the Church are generally mutually exclusive, no other area of debate cries taboo within Christendom as does sexuality, in particular homosexuality. In this essay I have attempted to approach the issue of homosexuality and the Church objectively rather than subjectively. I have no wish to state who is right or […]
Documents from Vatican Archives published
Homage and heresy – Holy See lets faded missives see the light of day NICK SQUIRES January 2, 2010 …. a collection of documents from the Vatican’s Secret Archives that has been published for the first time. The Holy See’s archives contain scrolls, parchments and leather-bound volumes with correspondence dating back more than 1000 years. […]
How High Will the Seas Go in a Warmer World?
From TIME Magazine, 12/18/09: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1948840,00.html By Michael D. Lemonick Even as negotiators scramble to salvage an agreement at the foundering Copenhagen climate talks, a new study in this week’s issue of Nature shows that the consequences of inaction on reducing emissions could be more severe than anyone thought. By looking back about 125,000 years, to […]
Rewards ( C S Lewis)
‘Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an […]
Should Christians get involved in interfaith dialogue?
(Picked up in a Google search): Dec 5th, 2009 by Rodney Olsen. Respected theologian, speaker, author and director of John Mark Ministries, Rev Dr Rowland Croucher turns 72 today. He’s an amazing guy who has been sharing his faith through various means for many years. He speaks to hundreds of thousands of people online each […]
Enforced celibacy?
From a pastor-friend: “On the subject of “enforced celibacy”, I know a few blokes of maturer years whose wives, due to the various factors that come with aging, are no longer excited about sex. Two of my friends, at least, have somewhat younger single female friends of an age where their biological clocks are chasing […]
Major Nidal M. Hasan’s Jihad Seminar Explained
by Mark Durie These are notes on Major Hasan’s seminar on ‘The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.’ An earlier posting surveyed some features of the seminar. These notes, put together while Pentagon and Senate investigations into the Fort Hoot shootings are still underway, go through the Major Hasan’s […]
Oh no, not religion again
OH NO – Maddy Prior Go to church? You must be bloody joking Give me the pub with drinking and smoking *** Humourless, straight laced, holier-than-thou Cheerless chapel, pledge and vow *** Church of England, boring empty ritual Vestments set with gold and jewels *** The Pope runs a multinational corporation Bleeds the poor that […]
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