Rowland Croucher
Response to a failing pastor
A pastor who feels a failure expressed those feelings, and received this positive response from another pastor: A few random thoughts for whoever you are, You need to know that only events are failures; not people. Don’t be afraid to fail in areas where you know you have no experience or gifting, and if you […]
Pigs, Plagues, Politics, and Religion
Sightings 5/14/09 — Spencer Dew In the last few weeks, fear of a swine flu pandemic temporarily closed churches in Mexico and altered liturgies in the United States, with some parishes cancelling the “passing of the peace” or performing Eucharist without a common cup. In a “precautionary” measure, 300,000 pigs were slaughtered in Egypt, while […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER May 11 2009 * INDONESIA REJECTS EXTREMISM * 200,000 MEN ATTEND CONFERENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA * PAKISTAN ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE AS GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO CONTROL TALIBAN * EMERGENCY PRAYER ALERT FOR SRI LANKA * CHINA PREDICTED TO BE A CHRISTIAN NATION WITHIN 10 YEARS * STAKES HIGH FOR CHRISTIANS IN INDIAN […]
Speech
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes
Rights charter will not lead to vilification law, Jesuit says
* Cynthia Banham Diplomatic Editor * May 8, 2009 FRANK BRENNAN, the Jesuit lawyer who heads the Federal Government’s public consultations for a national human rights charter, will move today to dispel concerns by some church leaders that the charter could entail the introduction of federal religious vilification laws. Father Brennan will tell the Australian […]
Statement from the Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia
May 8, 2009 We, the signatories to this Statement, are members of the Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia, an association formed in 2003 and supported by the Victorian peak bodies of the three Abrahamic faiths. We have come together, following the recent hostilities in Gaza and in recognition of the need for all to […]
U S Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to ‘Hunt People for Jesus’
Published on Monday, May 4, 2009 by RebelReports US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to “Hunt People for Jesus… So We Get Them into The Kingdom” Military officials at Bagram are caught on tape urging US soldiers to evangelize in the Muslim country. by Jeremy Scahill New video evidence has surfaced showing that US military forces […]
Religion and the State
(From my radical liberal Episcopal friend Harry Cook): Now That’s the Idea By Harry T. Cook 5/08/09 Thomas Jefferson would be proud. So would H.L. Mencken. So would today’s faithful watchmen upon the wall guarding our civil liberties. You’d wish the object of such pride might be, say, in Joplin, Missouri, or in Jackson, Mississippi, […]
Azerbaijan; Nagorno-Karabakh; Tajikistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 6 May 2009 AZERBAIJAN: WILL REVISED RELIGION LAW BAN UNREGISTERED WORSHIP? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1291 Azerbaijan is apparently rushing restrictive amendments to its Religion Law […]
Give away what you have learned
‘The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned, is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.’ (Annie Dillard) ‘Sir, My husband, T S Eliot, loved to recount how one evening he stopped a taxi. As […]
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