Rowland Croucher
LGBTIs and the Bible: Pieces of Ease and Grace
Note from Rowland: I’ve had a quick read of this interesting book; below are very rough jottings / ideas I want to think more about… When I get time, I might write a proper review… PIECES OF EASE AND GRACE, Ed. Alan H Cadwallader, Adelaide: ATF Theology, 2013. We now have a trilogy of books […]
Sleep: are you getting enough?
Sleep’s role in memory formation discovered: do you get enough? Scientists have discovered how sleep is key to learning and forming new memories. How much sleep do you get and is it enough? Carmen Fishwick theguardian.com, Friday 6 June 2014 21.57 AEST Photograph: Rob Bartee/Alamy Sleep’s role in improving memory has been discovered by scientists in […]
Dairy Products: Major Cause of Cancer?
Will giving up dairy defeat cancer? Date: June 06 2014 Cherrill Hicks A leading scientist and cancer survivor says the disease is overwhelmingly linked to animal products and we need to give them up. In 1993, the breast cancer that had plagued Jane Plant since 1987 returned for the fifth time. It came in the […]
We Are Our Brains? (D.F. Swaab)
I’ve been reading about the eminent Dutch neuroscientist, D. F Swaab. Like this: So much can go wrong with our brains that, after reading D.F. Swaab ¢â‚¬â„¢s book, one can ¢â‚¬â„¢t help but be amazed that anything ever goes right. In ¢â‚¬Å“We Are Our Brains, ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬â„¢ the Dutch neuroscientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam, illustrates some […]
Capitalism in Question: Thomas Piketty and the Crisis of Inequality
John Milbank and Adrian PabstABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 6 JUN 2014 OUR “EXTREMIST MERITOCRACY” HAS BECOME A KIND OF HOLLYWOOD STAR-CULT: THOSE WITH EXTREME ABILITY ARE REWARDED WITH EXTREMELY MUCH. BUT OUR VAST DISPARITIES OF INCOME CANNOT BE CORRELATED WITH MERIT.CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM SEE ALSO Related Story: Education into Virtue: Against the Tyranny of Modern Mass EducationJOHN MILBANK 9 MAY 2014 Related Story: Thatcher’s […]
Women in the First Two Generations of Christianity
Notes and a few quotes from Ross Saunders: Outrageous Women Outrageous God: Women in the First Two Generations of Christianity, Acorn Press 1996 In times of social dislocation, often it’s the women who – against social precedent – ‘take charge’. Aboriginal (Koori) women are often ‘leading their menfolk in recovering and preserving their indigenous culture… […]
Shut your windows, lock your doors, and disaster will fall from the sky (killer asteroids)
Time, June 9, 2014, pp. 32ff. An article about Don Yeomans – an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The dinosaurs are dead, thanks to a 10-km asteroid that crashed off the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago… It’s the same kind of event that flattened 2150 sq km of trees across […]
Much Ado About Francis: The Challenge of the Pope in a Cynical Age
Christopher BrittainABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 2 JUN 2014 CAN A CHARISMATIC LEADER SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE THE RIGIDITY OF LONG-STANDING RULES AND SOCIAL ORDERINGS, BE THEY THOSE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, SECULAR MORAL CODES OR ESTABLISHED POLITICAL DIVISIONS?CREDIT: NENEO / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM SEE ALSO Related Story: The Francis Phenomenon, or Media Infatuation? Reflections on the Anniversary of a PontificateSCOTT STEPHENS ET AL. 13 MAR 2014 […]
The Challenge of First-World Re-evangelization
Tuesday, 3 June 2014 | Charles Ringma The ¢â‚¬Ëœworld ¢â‚¬â„¢ of global Christianity has changed radically. In the 1800 ¢â‚¬â„¢s 80% of all Christians were Westerners. Today 70% of all Christians belong to what we call ¢â‚¬Ëœthe majority world. ¢â‚¬â„¢ And not only have we become the minority, but the church in the West is not doing all […]
Time to Stand Up: Reflections on the Federal Budget
Monday, 2 June 2014 | Brett Parris By now you may have read some of the analysis of the federal Coalition government ¢â‚¬â„¢s recent budget(e.g. here, here and here), or its Commission of Audit (e.g. here, here, here or here), which was released prior to the budget in an attempt to frame our economic challenges as a ¢â‚¬Ëœbudget emergency ¢â‚¬â„¢. Australia has had tough budgets before, but five factors […]
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