Rowland Croucher
Hymns
Two thoughts about sacred hymns/songs from a Facebook friend: 1 There are good and bad hymns, good and bad modern songs, and some excellent modern hymns too. It’s not the form, musically or lyrically, but the content that counts. I’ve been touched by some of the older hymns but I remember a youth alive meeting […]
The Fight Against Sex Trafficking
*Sightings* 9/24/09 Seeking Moral Clarity in the Fight Against Sex Trafficking — Barbra Barnett Last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to kick off a conference on the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, in which she addressed the urgent need to combat sexual slavery, forced labor, and other forms of […]
Niall Ferguson on the Global Economic Crisis (A Facebook discussion)
Harvard Prof Niall Ferguson says our economic future will probably be worse now that (except for Lehmann Bros) taxpayers bailed out big (‘Too Big to Fail’) banks. As long as the big banks feel confident that they can count on the government… to bail them out they can more or less ignore calls to be […]
I Love Huckabees
Note from Rowland (September 2009) I’ve just watched the video of I Love Huckabees, and the following helped me to make sense of it (if that’s possible :-): Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off-the-wall ‘I ? Huckabees’, a deep […]
Church and community
WHAT IS THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY by Ric Benson Senior Pastor Kenmore Baptist Church Brisbane If regular examination of one’s life is an imperative for the individual, then how much more is it for a church that purports to be carrying out God’s will and which influences the lives of […]
Power of a Lyric – The Great American Novel
This is the second in my ‘Power of a lyric’ series of posts, where I take a line of a song that has influenced me in my life and expand on its meaning and relevance for today. This lyric is from the late Larry Norman’s The Great American Novel. ‘Do you really think the only […]
Amazing Painting
The painting itself is great but as you run your curser over the people it tells you who they are … BUT …. (click on a person) and you obtain their life history. Fascinating! CLICK HERE Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Wisdom from a 90-year-old
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.” My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn’t fair, but […]
Rural and City Air
23 September 2009 The contrast could not be so obvious between sports and the corporate world, in that a surprisingly large number of Australia’s top athletes were raised in rural and regional areas whereas those in corporate Australia are generally city types. This has been the finding of Well-Being Australia’s chairman Mark Tronson who has […]
The Millennium: Will Christ Reign on Earth for 1000 years?
I’ve had an interest in this subject since childhood in a Brethren Assembly, where the wisest thing I ever heard was ‘It’s a good idea to concentrate on the material *between* Scofield’s notes’. Try this re Revelation 20:1-6: The Utopian idea of a one-world government by Christ has fascinated and excited Christians for a long […]
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