Rowland Croucher
World History 101
World History 101– For those of you who slept through World History 101 here is a condensed version. Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The […]
Found on a tombstone
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour, and one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries. Some fascinating things on old tombstones! Harry Edsel Smith of St Albans Herts.: Born 1903–Died 1942. Looked up the lift shaft to see if the lift was on the way down. It was. […]
Church Bulletin Bloopers
Church Bulletins They’re Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services: ————————– The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. ————————– Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. […]
Assisted Reproduction
A modern mother is explaining to her little girl about pictures in the family photo album. “This is the geneticist with your surrogate mother and here’s your sperm donor and your father’s clone. This is me holding you when you were just a frozen embryo. The lady with the very troubled look on her face […]
Islamophobia and defamation of religion
Subj: The OIC & the UN: Islamophobia and “defamation of religion”. THE OIC & THE UN: ISLAMOPHOBIA AND “DEFAMATION OF RELIGION” (OIC: Organisation of Islamic Conference) Durban I — the UN’s first World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance — which was held in Durban, South Africa, in early September 2001 ended […]
Azerbaijan; Russia
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 13 November 2008 AZERBAIJAN: NEW EXCUSES FOR MOSQUE CLOSURE, NEW RAID ON JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1217 Azerbaijan continues to obstruct religious worship, Forum […]
New Australian
(Some might not think this is funny)… A Somalian arrives in Sydney as a new immigrant to Australia He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, ‘Thank you Mr. Australian for letting me in this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and free education!’ The passerby says, […]
Two friends
TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT. DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE. THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. THEY KEPT ON WALKING, […]
The Bible and Non-Violence
From a thoughtful friend: As for the Hebrew Bible… it seems to me that the Hebrew Bible is a record of a group of people working out what God is like through their various experiences, and that this culminates in Jesus Christ who is the fullest revelation of God…in actual fact for a civilisation of […]
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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