Rowland Croucher
Heavy Thinking
HEAVY THINKING… It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone – “to relax,” I told myself – but I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking […]
India: Orissa – violence against Christians continues unabated
15th October 2008 /See this article on our website for a video presentation/ Hindu extremist violence against the Christian community in Orissa State, India, which started on 24 August (see previous articles : 12/09/2008 , 01/09/2008 ), has continued almost unabated since then. At least 50 Christians have been murdered, some cut to pieces and […]
Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Communique from A Common Word conference Posted On : October 15, 2008 4:50 PM ACNS: http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/10/15/ACNS4534 At a press conference today, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and His Excellency Dr Ali Gomaa, presented the communiqu © from ‘A Common Word’ conference, a meeting of leading Muslim and Christian clerics and scholars. The full text […]
What would you do?
Two Choices What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that […]
Creationists’ vs. Evolutionists’ approaches
From one of Australia’s best researchers into creationism/ evolution, Dr Ken Smith: The textbooks refer to the *evidence* for evolution. Creationism, on the other hand, is full of rhetoric. If you take anything written in support of creationism and remove all the criticisms of anything which doesn’t fit with creationist thinking, you will be left […]
Financial Crisis Prayer
You Have Our Attention, Lord A prayer by Max Lucado – October 2008 Our friends lost their house The co-worker lost her job The couple next door lost their retirement It seems that everyone is losing their footing This scares us. This bailout with billions. These rumblings of depression. These headlines: ominous, thunderous – “Going […]
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English writer and scholar, born at Oxford in 1893, the only child of an Anglican clergyman. She studied medieval literature at Oxford (Somerville College), being one of the first women to graduate (1915) from that university. Her first published writings were two volumes of verse, 1916 Op. 1 1919 Catholic […]
Making Belief Intelligible
A Christian Century Article: Making belief intelligible (Date unknown: but very relevant now – in 2008). Apologetics has largely lost its place in mainline seminary curricula. But the task of apologetics—making Christian belief intelligible— remains inescapable. If it isn’t done well, it will be done badly. The postmodern claim that all truth is relative to […]
McCain vs Obama
The 2008 US Presidential election will be over by the time most of you read this, but I post it here for its verbal brilliance anyway, whether you agree with it or not. Rowland. 13 October 2008 ***** This bulbous oblong of coiled rage came across as an appalling old waxwork Matthew Norman – Independent.co.uk […]
Staff Retreats
Dear friends, Here’s a little thing I wrote some time ago for a church considering the regular practice of Staff Retreats: 1. Why go away on regular group retreats? In principle, because Jesus did (Luke 5:15-16), and encouraged his disciples to do the same (Mark 6:30-31). The first text suggests Jesus had sometimes something more […]
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