Rowland Croucher
The Children who are poor
” The Great American Novel” – Larry Norman i was born and raised an orphan in a land that once was free in a land that poured its love out on the moon and i grew up in the shadows of your silos filled with grain but you never helped to fill my empty spoon […]
Propaganda, Islam, and the Election
*Sightings* 10/16/08 — Shatha Almutawa This Ramadan, Muslims and Arabs across the United States have come face to face with questions of identity and portrayal, as 28 million copies of the movie *Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West* were distributed in fourteen swing states, in a blatant and large-scale misrepresentation of Muslims. The DVDs […]
My Aim in Life
“While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight; while little children go hungry as they do now, I’ll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl on the streets, while there remains one dark […]
Mary…
Antiques enthusiast Mary spent all her free time haunting second-hand shops, flea markets, and other likely spots where she might encounter the odd find: a valuable antique of some sort, whose seller was unaware of its value and was offering it for a low price. On most of her expeditions she came up empty, but […]
Richard Foster’s ‘Life with God’
Richard Foster, ‘Life with God: A life-transforming new approach to Bible reading’, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008. Richard Foster – a Quaker pastor and scholar – became a house-hold (or, rather, a church-wide) name in the late 1970s when his first major book, Celebration of Discipline, became a best-seller. In that work, he brilliantly summarized the […]
Iraqi Christians flee Mosul
13th October 2008 Iraqi Christians flee Mosul as Islamic extremists launch campaign against them: “We left everything behind us. We took only our souls.” Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the city of Mosul in northern Iraq over the past week after Sunni Muslim extremists launched a deadly campaign to remove the Christian community from […]
Capitalism: Another ‘God that Failed’
*Sightings* 10/13/08 Another ‘God that Failed’ — Martin E. Marty “The Fall: Original Sin & Free-Market Capitalism,” “After the Meltdown,” and “Government Is Not the Problem: Thirty Years of Bad Economic Policy,” by William Pfaff, Charles R. Morris and Jeff Madrick, in turn, highlight a single issue of the Jesuit magazine *America* (October 10). Their […]
Tablets from the Doctor
A man comes home from a doctor’s appointment and tells his wife: “I’ve got terrible news – the doctor says I have to take one tablet a day for the rest of my life!” His wife says: “What’s so terrible about that?” The man replies: “He’s only given me seven!”
John Cleese on Sarah Palin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g
Spiritual Quotes
(sent by a liberal Roman Catholic friend): Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. ~ Rumi People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Gustav Jung You must understand the whole of life, not just one little […]
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