Rowland Croucher
The Sun, Love and God
During the Second World War a hopeful person scratched these words on to ‘I believe in the sun, even if it does not shine; I believe in love, even if I do not feel it; I believe in God, even if I do not see him’.
The Lord’s Prayer
Matthew 6: 1-14 “Take care not to flaunt your religion in public to be noticed by others. Otherwise, you will have no recognition from your Father in the heavens….And when you pray, don’t act like phonies. They love to stand up and pray in houses of worship and on street corners, so they can show […]
Teacher’s Woes
A kindergarten teacher was helping one of the children put on his cowboy boots. He’d asked for help and she could see why. Even with her pulling and him pushing, the boots didn’t want to go on, and she had worked up a sweat by the time they eventually got them on. She almost cried […]
Non-violence
For me it comes down to an issue of faith – literally the question of what (or who!) we trust in to save us. Is is the economy, or the government, or the military (the ‘big bullies’), or is it the nonviolent way of God revealed in Jesus? I believe this is not merely a […]
Open Source Software
From a friend: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?q=article/304048/microsoft_ charity_crackdown_spurs_boycott&fp=&fpid= Microsoft charity crackdown spurs boycott Charities prep for open source What’s “open source”, you ask? In practice, the Linux operating system and other software. Anyone for Ubuntu? http://www.ubuntu.org (or its other flavours, notably Kubuntu http://www.kubuntu.org or commercially supported Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/, or Novel’s SuSE 11.1 http://www.novell.com/linux/) — I’ve used them […]
Website Review – The BioLogos Foundation
http://biologos.org If you are one of those believers with a fascination for science and how God put the universe together, but at the same time you are sick of the constant bickering between Christians and atheists, this website provides welcome relief. The BioLogos Foundation has been set up by Francis Collins, former Director of the […]
Traffic camera
A man was driving when a traffic camera flashed. He thought his picture was taken for exceeding the speed limit, even though he knew he was not speeding. Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. He thought this was […]
In Defense of Distraction
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation. * By Sam Anderson * Published May 17, 2009 I. The Poverty of Attention I’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions […]
Deaf Book-keeper
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper has cheated him out of ten million bucks. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place. It was assumed that a deaf bookkeeper would not hear anything that he might have to testify about in court. When the Godfather […]
Jesus’ teachings
To the question: I’d ask again, when did Jesus’ teachings become impractical, idealistic, unrealistic? Nathan responded: One way of answering that question would be to say that they were always impractical, idealistic and unrealistic (at least when seen from the perspective of a worldly pragmatism), but we who have been called to proclaim the gospel […]
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