Rowland Croucher
Scrutinising the religious and political right
By Alan Matheson – posted Friday, 7 November 2008 The Australian Protectionist Party (APP) has recently invited Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party (BNP) to Australia. Churches, community groups, unions and anti racist groups in the United Kingdom (UK), are campaigning against his visit. Writing to the Australian High Commissioner, they note […]
Who Are The Obamagelicals?
Tuesday November 11, 2008 Nationally, 25% of white evangelicals voted for Obama. In certain key states, the numbers were higher. He saw a 14% in evangelicals in Colorado, 8% in Indiana, 8% in North Carolina and 4% in Ohio. Most important, he won 32% of young evangelicals (up from 16% for McCain). Who are these […]
Ingit the Eskimo
An Eskimo is fishing on the Polar ice pack at a time when there is sunshine 23hrs per day. After 18 hours his bum is numb with cold, so he packs up his catch and heads back to the igloo. He hangs up his sealskin coat, and sits down to tuck into his seal steak […]
Dogs
Ten second sketch by Dave Allen, who dressed as a postman, sees notice on front gate of house – “Beware of GOD”. Thinks out loud, “Oh, they’ve spelt DOG wrong.” Enters, and is struck by lightning. In another sketch he crosses out the letter B in ‘beware of the bog’, and falls in a big […]
The Shack
THE SHACK: Part I: A Preamble Books become best-sellers when they connect with our deep questions and tragic/meaningful experiences. Some become classics, others may be left behind with the detritus of literary or theological history. Wm. Paul Young’s The Shack (2007) is a best-seller (it’s knocked Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven books off a few perches) but […]
Nonviolence
From a thoughtful friend: Gandhi used to say that he loved Christ but couldn’t stand Christians because they were so unlike Christ…this from a man who meditated on the gospels for two hours a day for the last 40 years of his life…so I reckon he knew Jesus pretty well…how many _Christians_ do that?! Not […]
Solitude
TODAYS RIDDLE : “She” is a word that contains two personal pronouns: she and he. What five-letter word beginning with “U” contains four personal pronouns? /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ usher: us, she, he, and […]
The Dabster Method
There are some humorous stories in ‘Christian circles’ (I’d thought the word ‘square’ might be more appropriate 🙂 about what John Stott called the ‘dabster method’, and before that waas commonly called ‘the promise-box method’: Like (shuts eyes and points): ‘Judas went and hanged himself’ Oops, second try: ‘Go thou and do likewise!’ Gotta do […]
Another prawn story
Here’s another prawn story, as told by David Niven to Dame Edna Everage on her TV show (as best I can remember it): Once upon a time at the bottom of the ocean, there were a young female prawn and a young male crab. Now, prawns and crabs usually don’t have much to do with […]
Eschatology
Main the doctrine of the last things. It was originally a Western term, referring to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs about the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the messianic era, and the problem of theodicy (the vindication of God’s justice). Historians of religion have applied the term to similar […]
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