Rowland Croucher
Metaphors vs Literalism
Metaphors and Symbols for Religious and Spiritual Experiences By Arlene F. Harder, MA, MFT “How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These images must point past themselves to that ultimate truth which must be told: that life does not […]
The Essence of Leadership
Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say “We have done this ourselves” LaoTzu
Finishing Well
“There is no joy on earth comparable to the joy of finishing well.” The Fiery Crags (F W Boreham) p. 192.
The Joy of finishing and of finishing well
The joy of finishing and of finishing well! How passionately good people have coveted for themselves that ecstasy! I think of those pathetic entries in Livingstone’s journal. ‘Oh, to finish my work!’ he writes again and again. He is haunted by the vision of the unseen waters, the fountains of the Nile. Will he live […]
Indonesia: Islamisation and Polarisation
Subj: Indonesia: Islamisation and Polarisation — religious freedom-related violence increasing — President enacts anti-pornography bill RELIGIOUS FREEDOM-RELATED VIOLENCE INCREASING The Jakarta Post reports: “Religious violence is on the rise in the world’s largest Muslim country according to a report by the Wahid Institute http://www.wahidinstitute.org/ , which places the blame on the government for its failing […]
Socrates on Leadership
Socrates put it, “Societies [are made of those] whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.””
The Dog and the Parrot
Wanda’s dishwasher quit working so she called a repairman. Since she had to go to work early the next day, she told the repairman, “I’ll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I’ll mail you a check. Don’t worry about my dog Spike; he won’t bother […]
How to talk to students
Andrew Hamilton December 11, 2008 Golden Years One of the features of post-war Catholicism in the English speaking world was the growth of student chaplaincies. It reflected the expansion of universities. In his early comic novels the English writer, David Lodge has traced the path of young Catholics through the chaplaincies into the later years. […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Message
Anglican Communion News Service Archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas Message to the Anglican Communion Posted On : December 15, 2008 3:47 Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all sorts of shapes; but – although there were one or two instances, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, of gods being pictured as boys – […]
Palestine
For many of us, our image of Bethlehem is a peaceful little rural/pastoral village, awash with Shepards and sheep. The Bethlehem that we imagine is the one we see on the front of Christmas cards or the one we read about in the bible. Today, however, the real Bethlehem is very different. While it is […]
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