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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

20 Forgotten Bush Scandals

by The Daily Beast The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors. Farewell Chronicles In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, George H.W. Bush congratulated his son on running a “clean operation.” Bush […]

Tomato Garden

An old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted To dig his tomato garden but it was very hard work as the ground was Hard. His only son, Vincenzo, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his Predicament. Dear Vincenzo, I […]

Facebook Problems

Hi folks, This is addressed to everyone whose e-mail address I have recorded and who to the best of my memory is on Facebook … My sad experience: On 31st December I attempted to log on to my Facebook account, only to get the following message: “Account Disabled Your account has been disabled by an […]

Facebook – addictive?

Pros and cons on this blog – http://brownblog.info/?p=695

Kenosis and the Image of God

Three Presumptuous Sins of Teachers by Ronald T. Habermas In Christology today, two prominent doctrines stand out in need of particular attention: Image of God and Kenosis. All humankind was made in God’s Image and we still retain that reflection, albeit with serious distortions. It is easy to forget that Jesus, as both 100% God […]

Striking the Brothels

POIPET, Cambodia Nicholas D. Kristof Two teenage girls in the room they share in a brothel run by Sav Channa. Enlarge This Image Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times A group of girls in front of the brothel in which they work in Poipet, Cambodia. The toddler is the daughter of either the brothel-owner or […]

Africa needs God

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset Matthew Parris Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas […]

Andrew Bostom on Islamophobia and Jew-hatred

Despite the usual Islamically-correct gloss of denial in reportage, an ugly, uni-directional pattern of bigoted violence is onceagain clearly on display in Western Europe. Far removed from the current Gaza-southern Israel battlegrounds (“Hamas Says No To Permanent Ceasefire”) of the Middle East, European Muslims have attacked individual Jews, synagogues, and Jewish or Israeli institutions, in […]

Why We De-versified the Bible

Bible literacy is lower than ever. Who’s to blame? Try Bible publishers. BY: Glenn Paauw Why is the Bible so hard to read? For all the energies Bible publishers spend on manipulating the look and feel so that the Bible will go down easy, part of the problem is, well, the look and feel. Over […]

Just Decisions

Sunday, January 11, 2009 Just Decisions by Alistair Mackenzie and Wayne Kirkland Just Decisions is a book about ethical decision making in the sphere of work and commerce, in conversation with the resources of the Christian faith. The book is a welcome addition to the growing body of religious literature that shifts the focus from […]