Rowland Croucher
An Obituary For Someone Else
Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more than a normal person’s share […]
Barack Obama Visits a Hospital in Scotland…..
Barack Obama is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness. He greets one. The patient replies: “Fair fa your honest sonsie face,/ Great chieftain o’ the puddin race,/ Aboon them a ye tak’ yer place,/ Painch, tripe or thairm,/ Weel are ye worthy […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER APRIL 13, 2009 * BISHOP LEAVES THE CHURCH TO DEFEND THE FAITHFUL * CHRISTIANS: THE NEW POLITICAL LEPERS * OLD TESTAMENT COMPLETED IN ARABIC; FULL BIBLE TO BE AVAILABLE * INDIA: GENERAL ELECTIONS START 16 APRIL ———————————————– BISHOP LEAVES THE CHURCH TO DEFEND THE FAITHFUL (Editor’s comments: The first two articles […]
Dawn Rowan – article in The Age
This woman took on two governments and won, so why is she in debt and fearful of losing her house? * Barney Zwartz * April 10, 2009 [Dawn Rowan and the St Andrews home she may lose any day after 20 years THIS woman may lose this house and be thrust penniless onto the street […]
Holiday Conflicts
Sightings 4/13/09 — Martin E. Marty America got past the seasonal holidays and festivals relatively unscathed this month. Such an observation may sound surprising, because one would not expect holidays or festivals to scathe anyone. “Holiday,” says definition one in the dictionary, is HOLY DAY. “Festival,” says the same authority, is “a time of celebration […]
Good Friday Service
(Here’s the excellent Good Friday Service some of us attended after Dawn Rowan’s Vigil. More on Dawn – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/ ). ***** Good Friday – 10 April 2009 Welcome and Call to Worship Jesus challenged the system, and the system amassed its powers against him. Jesus challenged the political leaders, and they used their wiles to […]
Dominant Culture Influences Our Reading of the Bible
By: Miguel De La Torre Posted: Thursday, April 2, 2009 De La Torre asks if the Bible does not tell us the color of Adam, Saul or Jesus, why do we assume? “For (Moses) had married a Cushite.” (Numbers 12:1) The minds of people of color are at times so colonized and their eyes so […]
Prayer Network Newsletter
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER April 6, 2009 * SOLOMON ISLANDS SEEKS TO RESOLVE PAST TENSIONS THROUGH TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION * G20 COMES TO GRIP WITH GLOBAL RECESSION * GUNMAN SHOOTS PASTOR DURING CHURCH SERVICE * ARCHBISHOP CONFRONTS BBC OVER ITS TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANITY * HINDU NATIONALISTS CONTINUE TO TARGET CHRISTIANS IN INDIA * INTERNATIONAL MONETARY […]
Being A Mother
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, ‘I love you, but I know this other woman loves you and would Love to spend some time with you.’ The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my Mother, who […]
The Irish Bagpiper
A bagpiper was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The burial was to be at cemetery in the remote countryside and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there. He was not familiar with the backwoods […]
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