Rowland Croucher
The Religious Violence of Defending Marriage
Sightings 3/12/09 — Jon Pahl A recent article in The Atlantic and recently released Lutheran documents give good reasons to revisit the status of gays and lesbians across American society. Unfortunately, few commentators to date have addressed the most troubling development of the past few years: the growth of DOMA Laws, or “Defense of Marriage […]
Why Go To Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single […]
Mark’s Gospel
A good resource on Mark’s gospel at the Syneidon blog. http://syneidon.podbean.com/2009/02/06/exploring-the-gospel-of-mark-1/ It’s the first of a series of podcasts (although the others aren’t up yet), lasts about 20 minutes, is 13.MB to download and the blog describes it as follows: “Robert Foster and Richard Goode from the SYNEIDON Research Project at the University of Birmingham […]
Abreaction
I’m sometimes asked whether a client should relive a painful/abusive event in order to be healed from its effects. My response is mostly: only if the client feels the need to do it, and if other indications are that the event is not a figment of their imagination, or that retelling the event/s repeatedly is […]
Gotta Love Little Boys
Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and proceeded to the checkout counter. The man at the counter asked the older boy, ‘Son, how old are you?’ ‘Eight’, the boy replied. The man continued, ‘Do you know what these are used for?’ The boy replied, ‘Not exactly, […]
Economic Stimulus Payment Explained
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment? A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers. Q. Where will the government get this money? A. From taxpayers. Q. So the government is giving me back my own money? A. No, they are borrowing it from China. Your children are expected to repay […]
Book Review – Another Way to Love
Over the last 20 or so years, I have seen an encouraging move towards the church taking a lot more seriously the imperative of social justice as being a core part of the Christian message. Countless books have been written to help people see that social concern is not an optional add-on to the real […]
Darwin, biblical narrative and Christian history
Two reviews by Darren Cronshaw Charles Darwin is undoubtedly one of the catalysts for the modern-to-postmodern transition that we are starting to navigate through. These two books offer background on the influence of Darwin on contemporary society, the place of the church and our understanding of the gospel. The first, The Story We Find Ourselves […]
A Fool and His Money
Man loses €23,000 in cash during convertible test drive Published: 14 May 09 11:55 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090514-19273.html A man test driving a new Audi convertible on Wednesday lost €23,000 – with which he’d planned to purchase the vehicle – because it blew away when he simply put it on the backseat. The 23-year-old from Hannover […]
Famous Prayer by Thomas Merton
O Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. […]
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