Rowland Croucher
Does God Love Demons?
I put this onto my Facebook page (late October/early November 2009): SO DOES GOD LOVE DEMONS? First, complete the sentence ‘God is…’ Second, Jesus told us to love our enemies: is anyone saying God can’t do what he commands us to do? Third: Pharisees put creatures along a ‘line of deserving love’. They vary – […]
Pray for the World (November 2009)
* IRAN – UPDATE ON IMPRISONED CHRISTIAN WOMEN * INDIA – ANTI-CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE TOWARDS PASTORS WAGED ACROSS INDIA * EGYPT – MOB SURROUNDS CHURCH WITH CONGREGATION TRAPPED INSIDE * CHINA – TEENAGER EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL FOR HIS FAITH * SENEGAL AND UK – CHURCHES ACCUSED OF NOISE POLLUTION * USA – HILLARY CLINTON TAKES A […]
Belarus; Kazakhstan; Turkey; Uzbekistan
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 ================================================= 30 October 2009 BELARUS: “TO PREVENT THEM FROM CONTINUING THEIR WORSHIP SERVICE” http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1370 The Prosecutor who authorised a six-hour raid on a […]
Book Review – The Depression Cure, Stephen S. Ilardi
This very good book starts by hammering home some truths that speak powerfully to our Western way of living and explain quite clearly how depression has become nothing less than an epidemic in our culture. The author, Stephen Ilardi, highlights the fact that our modern way of living is a wonderful recipe for depression. Although […]
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire
A Review of William T. Cavanaugh’s Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008. Review by Paul Tyson Is there a highest common good, a true final goal, for human life, or, is any universal and transcendently referenced human telos unknowable? The answer you give to this question will powerfully […]
Human Rights Legislation
Rev Terrence Corkin, General Secretary, Uniting Church in Australia National Assembly The email below may be of interest re your letter to the editor (‘Not all Christian leaders stand with Cardinal Pell’, Australian 24-25 /10/09) in which it was suggested, in effect, that: Not all church leaders share concerns about human rights legislation. The Uniting […]
Blood Diamonds
Dear friend, Thanks for taking action to stop Robert Mugabe selling his blood diamonds on the world market. Official diamond regulators meeting in Namibia this week could suspend Zimbabwe, sending a clear message that we do not want our gifts of love to finance hate. We have just 24 hours to persuade regulators to act […]
Prayer Network Newsletter November 2009
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MUSLIMS CANNOT COPE WITH CHRISTIAN WORSHIP – SEEK TO CLOSE CHURCH DOWN * INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE PERSECUTED CHURCH SUNDAY 8TH NOVEMBER * AUSTRALIA INCREASES ASSISTANCE TO SAMOA AND TONGA * PRAYER ALERT FOR PAKISTAN * 700 PORTUGUESE DOCTORS SIGN PETITION OPPOSING ABORTION * NORTH KOREA OPENS THE […]
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 1989 This month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most wonderful moments in the history of what was a turbulent 20th century. For millions of Germans it will no doubt be one of the enduring memories of their lives. November 9, 1989 was the day that the infamous Berlin Wall finally fell. […]
Noah’s Ark
There’s a cartoon I heard about which claims that there were, in fact, three Arks, not just one. The one with wombats, koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, . . . was blown off course and finished up in Australia, not near Mt Ararat. The one with dinosaurs, elves, fairies, unicorns, dragons, centaurs, sphinxes and other extinct animals […]
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