Rowland Croucher
Confidence
27 October 2009 Confidence is immensely important Bill Ellis, in a recent feature article of the Assist News Service titled ‘Shattered confidence can be devastating’, states the obvious: “To lose confidence is a haunting and hurting negative that robs life of its blessings and happiness. It brings fear and distrust. To lose confidence in one’s […]
Trouble
In response to this status-comment I put on Facebook: Heard on a BBC broadcast yesterday: ‘When someone says “Life is hard” I’m tempted to respond “Compared to what?”‘. I have at least two problems with that clever – or not-so-clever – retort. Do you? Someone wrote (wisely): It’s hard to think of a clearer a […]
Twit-face
I just read that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are merging. It’ll be called You-Twit-Face.
God as Being
From a (theologically liberal) friend: Read John A T Robinson – “Honest to God” (SCM Press: 1963) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … three pieces of writing, all brief, which contain ideas that immediately found lodgement when I first read them … *[1] Paul Tillich … “The Shaking of The Foundations” … God, Tillich was saying, is not a […]
The Ultimate Power Grab
Mark 10: 35-45 The story in today’s Gospel reading is about the ultimate power grab. James and John come up to Jesus and ask him to do for them whatever they want. That’s a pretty audacious request. If you are a parent, what would you do if your little boy or girl came up to […]
6 people you meet in a prayer circle
6 people you meet in a prayer circle: 1. The Almost-er This is the person sitting near you that is constantly on the verge of praying. You can hear them doing that little breath thing, that little exhale before you are about to speak. And you can hear it because it’s loud in the deafening […]
Proofread!!!
Everyone’s heard about the 1631 King James Bible which misses the word “not” out of the seventh commandment which then read “Thou shalt commit adultery”. A couple of others: A biography of George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Anne Evans) once referred to the author throughout as “He”. The first edition of James Joyce’ […]
Comic Books
(From a Usenet Humour group – so don’t blame me 🙂 I’ve been desperately short of stuff to do recently, hence the fact that I’ve been sitting down the library reading all the comic books (rather than actually go out and find some work!). Having exhausted Wonder Woman (not literally, unfortunately) I turned to “The […]
Spell-checker poem
Chicago Tribune Published March 5, 2004 Anonymous steps forward for attribution One of the best-read writers in the world is someone named “Anonymous,” a.k.a. “Unknown.” Last week, I printed one of Anon’s finer pieces, which had been sent to me separately by two Tribune readers under two different titles. The versions varied slightly, but both […]
Effective Leadership
Strong teams have effective leadership Over the years I have consistently noticed that effective leadership plays a huge role in the overall success of work teams. My picture of a leader is like a conductor of a great orchestra. The leader is the one who leads all the individuals in the team to produce a […]
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