Rowland Croucher
The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei
Sightings 6/4/09 The Curious Case of Galileo Galilei (in which he does not go to jail) — Karl E. Johnson Last week, the Niels Stensen Foundation, a Jesuit study center in Florence, Italy, convened a conference entitled “The Galileo Affair” to show how recent research “might alleviate the ‘tension and conflict’ still clouding the relationship […]
Parker J Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Parker J Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (2000). Here’s a very readable short book, written with an elegant simplicity, and transparent honesty, about ‘being who you are’ rather than ‘being what others want you to be’. It’s a modern commentary on the adage ‘To thine own self be true… And it must follow as the […]
Golf stories
A gushy reporter told Phil Michelson, “You are spectacular, your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What’s your secret?” Michelson replied, “The holes are numbered.” —————————– A young man and a priest are playing together. At a short par-3 the priest asks, “What are you […]
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Human Rights Legislation
The Uniting Church in Australia is the only Australian church to officially support the development of federal human rights legislation IT’S OKAY FOR CHRISTIANS TO SUPPORT A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 25 May 2009 I am a Christian and like many other Christians I support the development of federal human rights legislation. I sincerely hope that […]
A. N. Wilson: Look Who
A.N. Wilson: Look Who’s a Believer Now Have you ever heard the one about the Christian who started to study calculus and ended up losing his faith? Of course you have. Such “conversion” to atheism is supposed to be the story of all modern, thinking people. But imagine it happening the other way around. Moreover, […]
Sin and love
Judge (in the movie The Reader): ‘Why did you let those 200 Jews die in the burning building?’ German guard’s response: ‘Because if we’d let them out there would have been too much disorder!’ Extreme example of the adage ‘Sin may be doing a good thing at the wrong time; love is doing a good […]
Swine Flu Sermon
From my friend, Dr. Geoff Pound: Swine Flu Sermon Preached Throughout the Emirates A distinctive of life in the United Arab Emirates is that in an Islamic nation there is no separation between mosque and state. This was highlighted last Friday when the government authorities gave to imams a ‘unified sermon’ to preach at every […]
Contemporary Islam
This extract from a book written by Dr Peter Hammond is quite enlightening, more especially so in light of well publicised developments worldwide of growing discord between, on the one hand, basically tolerant democratic societies and, on the other hand, their Muslim residents or immigrants. It makes for sobering reading. ____________________________________________________________ Islam is not a […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * NEW BRITISH LAW WILL FORCE CHURCHES TO EMPLOY HOMOSEXUAL STAFF * INDIA: CHRISTIANS BREATHE EASIER AFTER ELECTIONS * EMERGENCY PRAYER ALERT FOR SOMALIA * MORE AMERICANS PRO LIFE THAN PRO CHOICE FOR THE FIRST TIME * CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE * CALL TO PRAY FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS […]
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