Rowland Croucher
I Don’t Believe in Atheists
Barney Zwartz By Chris Hedges Continuum Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and co say the world can’t afford religious people. But if Chris Hedges is right, the world can’t afford Christopher Hitchens. And certainly not Sam Harris, who wants to bomb the “deranged” Muslims into oblivion before they bomb us. This brilliant book highlights what is […]
International News
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * NIGERIA: SIX PASTORS KILLED, 40 CHURCHES RAZED IN CONTINUING VIOLENCE * SRI LANKA’S FORGOTTEN WAR – A CALL FOR GLOBAL CHURCH ADVOCACY * RECORD BREAKING UN AID APPEAL LAUNCHED * CHOLERA OUTBREAK CAUSES HAVOC IN ZIMBABWE * PRAYING CHILDREN CONFRONT WORST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN * 5.4 MILLION […]
On Trust
*Sightings* 12/22/08 — Martin E. Marty For the next fortnight the University of Chicago and the Martin Marty Center close down; so, while I rarely visit either of them except electronically, I’ll close down, to return in 2009. This end-of-year and holiday-greeting issue differs from the other fifty columns of the past year in that […]
Be slow to criticize or make a negative justment about someone else
“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.” Dylan Thomas ***** “Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise can […]
Out in the Barn
[Note from Rowland: apart from the word ‘invented’, this is very moving]. **** Harry T. Cook 12/21/08 One of my sons and his wife built a pole barn out behind their house in the country, which is home to their horse, Buddy, their children’s pony, Coco, and various and sundry barn cats, as they are […]
A Christmas Reflection
I’ve been thinking about what Christmas holds in store this year – and by ‘store’ I don’t mean Myers! But isn’t that just what Christmas has become? Every year we hear the plea from those of us inclined to a religious/spiritual view of life to bring Christ back into Christmas. My hope is that this […]
Obama defends choice of evangelical Warren for inauguration
US president-elect Barack Obama has defended his selection of evangelical leader and best-selling author Rick Warren to deliver the prayer at his January 20 inauguration, a move criticised by some gay groups and supporters of abortion rights, saying Warren opposes what they stand for. “I am a fierce advocate of equality for gay and lesbian […]
Disaster and Triumph
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same… (From the famous Rudyard Kipling poem ‘If…’) Here are two very different, but very interesting and challenging books on dealing with disasters: 1. Stephen Robinson, Ministry in Disaster Settings: Lessons from the Edge (2007). Media news broadcasts highlighting human […]
Remember the reason for the season
“Remember the reason for the season.” It’s almost become a clich ©, but I agree the reason does seem to have got lost. So let’s remember the reason and see if it has much to do with the season. The other day in a shopping mall I was confronted by a giant Santa and next to […]
The Good Old Days
How’s This For Nostalgia? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? It took five minutes for the TV to warm up? Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a quarter was a decent allowance? You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? […]
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