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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Is Antisemitism Intrinsic to Islam?

By Andrew G. Bostom A Three-Part Series Examines the Origins of Hatred Part 1: http://www.jewcy.com/post/understanding_islam_islamic_antisemitism Part 2: http://www.jewcy.com/post/antisemitism_islams_foundational_texts Having introduced the living uniquely Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmitude in Part 1, Part 2 examines how jihad and dhimmitude operate in tandem with central Antisemitic motifs from Islam’s foundational texts. Part 3: http://www.jewcy.com/post/islamic_eschatology_annihilationist_muslim_jew_hatred Part […]

Defamation of religions

Subj: The OIC & the UN: defamation of religions as incitement This posting follows on from last week’s posting entitled: “The OIC & the UN: Islamophobia and ‘defamation of religion'” (15 Nov 2008). http://www.worldevangelicals.org/commissions/rlc/reports/articles.htm?id=2203 The 15 November posting centred around the “Draft Outcome Document for the Durban Review Conference 2009” which had just been penned […]

Stations of Creation

“All Heaven Shouted for Joy” Job 38:7 There are two major celebrations in the annual church calendar … Christmas and Easter. These celebrations are shared with the wider culture and they address the mysteries that surround birth and death. We need a poetic language to address these mysteries. At St. Ives Uniting Church we have […]

Charter seeks golden rule

* Barney Zwartz * November 18, 2008 A GLOBAL campaign to apply religion’s “golden rule” – treat others as you would like them to treat you – has been launched by Christians, Jews and Muslims. The campaigners, claiming that compassion is at the heart of most religions, have launched an online Charter of Compassion and […]

Drinking the Kool-Aid (Jonestown)

Sightings 11/20/08 Drinking the Kool-Aid — Brian Britt Thirty years have passed since the murder-suicide of over nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s People’s Temple, on November 18, 1978. A sign hanging in the pavilion of Jonestown at the time read, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today there […]

What Do You Do All Day?

A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pyjamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the […]

Muslim Academic Questions Muhammad’s Existence

Nov. 14, 2008 Below are translated excerpts from an article in German entitled, “Islamic Theology Without the Historic Muhammad — Comments on the Challenges of the Historical-Critical Method for Islamic Thinking,” by Germany’s Prof. Muhammad Kalisch, a Muslim. (See related article.) [Professor Kalich] Muhammad Kalisch Up to some time ago I was convinced that Muhammad […]

International News 17th November 2008

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * U.S. ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT WITH WINS & LOSSES ON SOCIAL AND MORAL POLICIES IN REFERENDA * NICARAGUA PRESSURED ON ABORTION * INDIAN PRIME MINISTER AFFIRMS PLACE OF CHRISTIANITY IN NATIONAL HERITAGE ———————————————– U.S. ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT WITH WINS & LOSSES ON SOCIAL AND MORAL POLICIES IN REFERENDA (Editors note: The […]

Thinking Biblically About Facebook

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by Justin Buzzard Continuing the Ten Topics series I’m teaching this fall, tomorrow night I’m delivering a message titled, Facebook: Technology and Relationships. This message explores technology’s impact on how we do relationships and how followers of Jesus ought to engage technology. Because of its extreme popularity (especially where I live), […]

Call to Priesthood

“Many claim to have heard a ‘calling’ to the priesthood, but what they don’t tell you is that it’s a small inner voice reminding them that it’s year-round indoor work with no heavy lifting.” – Terry Pratchett