Rowland Croucher
Azerbaijan; Russia; Serbia; Uzbekistan
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 ================================================= 24 February 2009 AZERBAIJAN: LITERATURE CENSORSHIP FOR EXPORT ALSO? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1259 Azerbaijan’s wide-ranging religious literature censorship system has started to affect the export […]
Racism 2009
Unfunny Watermelons 2/27/09 Twice in a week I found myself accosted by racist slurs on President Barack Obama, and, by extension, on others of darker skin loosely but not always accurately called “African Americans.” The first came in a group e-mail — I have asked to be taken off the sender’s distribution list — depicting […]
Some British Christians feel oppressed in the public square
LONDON: Some British Christians feel oppressed in the public square By Mark Rice-Oxley February 26, 2009 For a nation shaped by an overtly Christian heritage, Britain has apparently become a difficult place to be overtly Christian. The conservative press bewails a steady erosion of Christian values. A member of Parliament has called for debate on […]
Quiz: test yourself against these experts :-)
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2) Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for ‘cherrypickers’ and ‘cheesemongers’? Contestant: Homosexuals. Paxman: No. They’re regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you. BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2) Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is? Contestant: Geography isn’t my strong point. Theakston: There’s a clue in […]
Pooped Pastors
Welcome to PoopedPastors.com I’m no longer a pastor but I haven’t been away from it for so long that I’ve forgotten… The discouragement, The battles that I sometimes won and sometimes lost, The hypocrisy I often felt in thinking that my being a pastor was insane, The times when I didn’t know what I was […]
A Christian response to the economic crisis
February 28th, 2009 We are experiencing what former U.S. Federal Reserve Bank chairman Alan Greenspan calls “a once-in-a-century type of event” – a global financial crisis. First came the subprime mortgage crisis, then government takeover of home mortgage lenders, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and other major financial firms, and flow-on effects to other sectors […]
F B I authority
A FBI officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talks with an old rancher. He tells the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs. The old rancher says, “Okay, but don’t go in that field over there.” The FBI officer verbally explodes saying, “Mister, I have the authority of the […]
Know Your Customers
Know Your Customers: A disappointed salesman of a famous Cola Co. returns from his Middle East assignment. A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?” The salesman explained “When I got posted in the Middle East , I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually […]
The End of the World
Today’s quote: “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” -Charles Schulz.
A Poignant Story About an Ex-Pastor
I’ve just finished dawdling through ‘All the Blessings of Life’ (The Best Stories of F.W. Boreham), and was saddened by this (pp. 254-5). (I hear similar stories most weeks in my work with John Mark Ministries): ‘Mark Rutherford… had been in his first church for four weeks on probation; and the narrowness of the people’s […]
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