AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * INDONESIA: SHARIA-BASED LAWS CREEP INTO HALF OF PROVINCES * BRITISH NURSE SUSPENDED FOR OFFERING TO PRAY FOR HER PATIENTS * THE CHANGING CHURCH – TELEVANGELISM EMPIRE IN CHAOS OVER FAMILY SPLIT * INDULGENCE OF ISLAM IS HARMING SOCIETY * CHILDREN PLACED WITH HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE INSTEAD OF WILLING GRANDPARENTS * SRI-LANKAN […]
From a Usenet friend… interesting! ***** The blog “Dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness” by “Internet Monk” has an interesting series of three articles on the future of Christianity, focusing on the prediction of an Evangelical collapse. You may find the articles here: Part 1: The coming evangelical collapse. http://tinyurl.com/bzx9l9 Part 2: What will be left? […]
At my local they have ESPN and frequently have the boxing on. Anyway, this old codger walks in and says to the barmaid, “Quick, give me a drink before the fight starts”. She pulls him a schooner and hands it to him saying, “What fight?” He replies, after downing the schooner in two sips, “The […]
Please find below our latest news about this year’s Internet Evangelism Day on 26 April. It’s also available as a formatted Word document at http://www.InternetEvangelismDay.com/latestnews If you are an editor or blogger, we will be very grateful for any coverage you could give in a future issue. (Coverage well in advance would give time for […]
*Sightings* 2/2/09 — Martin E. Marty On January 22, responding to a post-speech questioner at St. Scholastica College in Duluth, which is (roughly) twenty-four percent Catholic and sixteen percent Lutheran, I observed that American Catholic criticisms of Pope Benedict XVI have often been muted, and that Lutherans held their fire and even admired some Benedict-ine […]
A man pacing back and forth glanced at his watch and yelled upstairs to his wife, “Honey, are you ready yet?” Shouting back, the woman replies, “For crying out loud, Ed. I’ve been telling you for the last half hour, I’ll be ready in a minute!” =========================== A grizzled old man was eating in a […]
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them. 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!) 3. Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. […]
Collected by a Facebook friend: “Within our human tendency to defer to others lie the seeds of our own undoing.” —Dr. Leeb “It’s not the answers that guide life’s journey…rather the questions.” —Rilke “He who knows others is learned…he who knows himself is wise.” —Tszyu “One must adhere to the law of rigorous exercise in […]
*Sightings* 1/29/09 — P. Genesius Durica In December 2008 scientists working in France announced the discovery of sugar molecules in the far reaches of the Milky Way. Soon to be published in *Astrophysical Journal Letters*, these findings increase the odds that life exists on other planets. Someone who’d not have been surprised by sugar in […]
(This is the disorder which describes the challenges we face with our youngest – 3 year old – gorgeous granddaughter, Bella. I’ve included one approach to cure – the Tomatis Method. Anyone know anything about it? Rowland. January 2009) Development is a broad term that encompasses a great number of progressive achievements and abilities. For […]