Rowland Croucher
Poverty, and living a truly creative life
Seen on a friend’s Facebook page: To live a truly creative life, we must first lose the fear of being wrong – Joseph Chilton Pierce. ———————- “These are the ‘advantages’ to being poor. 1. The poor know they are in urgent need of redemption 2. The poor know not only their dependence on God, and […]
Why did the chicken cross the road?
PAT BUCHANAN To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. DR. SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I’ve not been told! ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die alone. In the rain. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I envision a […]
Afghanistan: military power is no solution to terrorism
* January 25, 2009 Active compassion and a holiday from war can combat terrorism, says George McGovern. AS YOU settle into the Oval Office, Mr President, may I offer a suggestion? Please do not try to put Afghanistan aright with the US military. To send our troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan would be […]
Morning in America
* Guy Rundle * January 25, 2009 WITH the broad expanse of a clean desk before him, the new President, flanked by an American flag and the presidential standard, makes calls to world leaders. He’s coatless, in a white sleeve shirt, the sun shining through the crook of his arm, illuminating him. In the window […]
Prayer for President Obama
(Yes, I realize that posting a prayer by this particular person is controversial. This website is an inclusive one – all sorts of sinners have their prayers here – and I’m sure God was paying attention during this prayer). **** Bp Gene Robinson’s prayer at Lincoln Memorial… A Prayer for the Nation and Our Next […]
An Inner Life with New Meaning
*Sightings * 1/22/09 — Krista Tippett As the indicators by which we’ve measured our collective well-being in recent years continue to plummet, I found a conversation with Parker Palmer echoing in my head. He and I spoke years ago on the radio program *Speaking of Faith* about his mid-life experience of clinical depression, about which […]
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 ================================================= 20 January 2009 TAJIKISTAN: “NO RIGHTS TO ORGANISE PRAYERS” http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1242 Tajikistan is continuing to close down places of worship in the capital […]
The Politics of Universal Love
by John Dear Wednesday, January 21, 2009 While hiking the other day in the high desert of northern New Mexico, I met my neighbor, a Native American elder who gives workshops around the country on Native-American spirituality. When I asked him for his thoughts on President-elect Obama, he said that Obama had already given us […]
The Demise of the Newspaper
Vanquishing the Devil Harry T. Cook 1/23/09 In the 1939 movie version of Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” Cedric Hardwicke, playing Claude Frollo, archdeacon of the cathedral, looks upon Johannes Gutenberg’s recently invented printing press as “the instrument of the devil.” The problem? The printing press, while unbearably slow by modern standards, could […]
How To Call The Police
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU’RE OLD AND DON’T MOVE FAST ANYMORE. George Phillips of Gold Coast, Australia was going to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. (Does this sound familiar! ) George opened the back […]
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