Rowland Croucher
Savvy Estate Planning
Dave was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business. When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune. One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most […]
Common Sense – some more apparently incompatible maxims
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again – Don’t beat your head against a brick wall. Absence makes the heart grow fonder – Out of sight, out of mind. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today – Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it. Two heads are better […]
English Language
Lovers of the English language might enjoy this. It is yet another example of why people learning English have trouble with the language. Learning the nuances of English makes it a difficult language. (But then, that’s probably true of many languages). There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any […]
Review: The Gospel of Grace: Tools for Building a Positive Understanding of the Bible (Mark Wickstrom, 2008)
How about this (a humorist writing to a Fundamentalist Christian): ‘I’ve heard you say you take the whole Bible at its word. Please help me understand the following: Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims this applies to […]
Borderline Personality Disorder
The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder By John Cloud Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009 Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology, though, remains a profession […]
Interesting Quotes
Here are the favourite quotations from one of my Facebook friends: “We don’t have souls. We are souls. We have bodies.” – C.S. Lewis We should be fishing outside the boat. The difference between the average Christian life and the radical Christian experience is this… The average Christian cannot imagine the thought of being apart […]
Destructive Species
There once was a Species of tail-less Monkey who had an over-developed Brain, of which it was immensely proud. Apeman thought he was Top of the Evolutionary Tree (and prior: Darling of the Gods), and could not only Dominate his Planet, but Conquer Nature, and be Immortal. His species multiplied like crazy, spread across the […]
HAMAS: Islam Makes Israel’s Survival a Theological and Moral Impossibility!
HENCE, THERE CAN BE NO SOLUTION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST “CRISIS” ——————– “Political Negotiation Won’t Resolve Mideast Hostilities” The Washington Post Saturday, January 10, 2009; B09 Below is an excerpt from “On Faith,” an Internet feature sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage […]
Notes on non-violence
Friend 1: I find Bonhoeffer’s dilemma to be a wonderful example of the way frail humanity must attempt to do God’s will in the full knowledge that their choices may be wrong. As I understand it Bonhoeffer was a confessed pacifist who chose to do violence against Hitler because of the weight of the atrocities […]
Notes on non-violence
Friend 1: I find Bonhoeffer’s dilemma to be a wonderful example of the way frail humanity must attempt to do God’s will in the full knowledge that their choices may be wrong. As I understand it Bonhoeffer was a confessed pacifist who chose to do violence against Hitler because of the weight of the atrocities […]
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