Rowland Croucher
Abused women
Experienced women’s prison chaplain: ‘At least 90% and maybe up to 99% of women’s prison inmates were seriously abused in childhood – sexually, emotionally, or physically – or all three. They turn to drugs/alcohol to drown their pain, and pay for their habit by robbery and/or prostitution. One question: where are the perpetrators of the […]
Canadians
Canadians, bless their flinty hearts, complain about the strangest things, unlike the Brits who whimper about nonsense. There are many Canadians who wear maple leaf pins or badges, mistakenly believing rural native populations in obscure places will recognize the symbol and not confuse them with their southern neighbors. They complain that they can’t eat baked […]
American (political tourist) intelligence
A DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of ‘why’ the US is in trouble! 1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn’t get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman’s (Moore) […]
Karen Armstrong: The Case for God
Karen Armstrong “The Case for God : What Religion Really Means”(Bodley Head: 2009) All quiet on the God front Simon Blackburn The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009 Simon Blackburn discusses the argument that religious experience can’t be discussed This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on […]
Victims and Perpetrators of Abuse
A public Facebook contribution from a wise person: “I am a therapist and deal with victims of severe abuse all the time… they need a sacred space of acceptance and love to experience real healing. It takes some work to understand their inner worlds – but it doesn’t mean you have to be a professional […]
Internet Evangelism Day 2009
New resources from Internet Evangelism Day. These are listed below as short separate news items so that editors or bloggers can use or adapt one or more, as appropriate. If reproducing items in print, you may remove the ‘www’ from the beginning of URLs and the ‘.php’ suffix from the end, to make them shorter, […]
There are cat-lovers and…
http://www.funvideoworld.com/video/1212/Crazy-cat-routine Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Lawyer’s porsche
A very successful lawyer parked his brand new Porsche Carrera GT in front of the office, ready to show it off to his colleagues. As he was getting out, a truck came along too close to the car and completely tore off the driver’s door. A policeman was close enough to see the accident and […]
50th Wedding Anniversary
At Saint Mary’s Catholic Church they have a weekly husband’s marriage seminar. At the session last week, the Priest asked Luigi, who was approaching his 50th wedding anniversary to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he had managed to stay married to the same woman all these years. Luigi replied to […]
British tourist complaints
Sun too hot, drinks too strong: bizarre British tourist complaints OLIVER SMITH September 21, 2009 Hot weather, strong alcohol and melting ice cream were among the most bizarre complaints made by British holidaymakers this year, according to one online travel agent. Upon arrival in Portugal, one British family told Sunshine.co.uk of their distress at the […]
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