Rowland Croucher
Economics and the Work Ethic
From a friend “Keynesian economics by which the world has run since the 1930’s depends on the assumption of continual growth. This I suspect has led to the exploitation of the planet and with global warming we are going to have to develop models of negative growth or zero growth. i.e. how do we live […]
Work, Stress and Quiet
From a netfriend: It is possible to over-emphasize “quietness” until it becomes a self-centred idleness. Even our culture’s concept of the five-day week is unfounded – “six days shall you work…” And the Proverbs have a lot to say about slothfulness. Time for work, God, rest, family and self are all important, and they must […]
Work Ethic
From a netfriend: The problem is what we mean by “work ethic” – in the States I’ve seen mostly 3 forms. The Puritan work ethic was simple: Do your work as unto the Lord, because work is a form of worship of God. It is based on the idea that all vocations are spiritual and […]
Nonsense
Scientists once bet they could get a postmodernist journal to accept a paper deliberately salted with total nonsense, and succeeded. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Grandparents
1. She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she’d done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, “But Gramma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!” I will probably never put lipstick on again […]
Aborigines
“An Aboriginal woman from Australia says it well: If you’re coming to help me, you are wasting your time. but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together”. (Jim Wallis,The Sound of Politics, P.164) (Check the rich resources on Aboriginal resources,Dreaming on line spirituality,etc on St.Paul’s, […]
Viewpoints
A Brit, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden. “Look at their reserve, their calm,” muses the Brit. “They must be British.” “Nonsense,” the Frenchman disagrees. “They’re naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French.” “No clothes, no shelter,” the Russian points out, […]
Deaf Wife?
A man feared his wife wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem. The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the […]
What Does A Healthy Christian Community Look Like?
WHAT DOES A HEALTHY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY LOOK LIKE? [Rough Notes] For Church Anniversary Service Mulgrave Church of Christ (Theological College Mulgrave): April 26, 2009 Text: Mark 9:38-41 Points of Contact: 1. A ‘Church Anniversary’- as with any birthday – is an occasion for celebration and review: as our ancestors used to say ‘hitherto has the […]
Church warned of errant priests
* New York * April 1, 2009 THE founder of a religious order that treats Catholic priests who molest children concluded in the 1950s that offenders were unlikely to change and should not be returned to the ministry, according to his letters, which were obtained by plaintiffs’ lawyers. Father Gerald Fitzgerald, founder of the Servants […]
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