Rowland Croucher
If a Dog was your Teacher
If a dog was the teacher you would learn stuff like: When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy. When it’s in your best interest, practice obedience. […]
The Role Of Women In The Church: An Egalitarian View
by Rev. Thomas Scarborough. CONTENTS 1. Foreword 2. Introduction 3. The Creation 4. The Example of the Old Testament 5. The Example of the New Testament 6. The Day of Pentecost 7. A Brief Reference to Church History 8. Submission of Wives: Eph. 5-6 & Col. 3-4 9. The Case of Sarah: 1 Pet. 3 […]
Mirth
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety–all this rust of life–ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. –Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregational minister
Are you sitting comfortably?
Late last Saturday night, a young chap was walking home from the pub. It was a cold, wet, windy evening, and he was tired and freezing. Most Of the streetlights in the area were broken, and the silence was only Broken by the occasional sound of a stray cat sifting through a Dustbin. Suddenly he […]
India: Gujarat and Orissa prefigure Indian crisis
Subj: India: Gujarat and Orissa prefigure Indian crisis. A violent anti-Christian Hindu pogrom erupted in Orissa (northeast India) on 23 August that has claimed dozens of lives, including that of a 20-year-old nun burned to death in an orphanage. Numerous others have been injured, many seriously, including another young nun who was pack raped. Casualties […]
Pastoral Statistics
(Found on a friend’s Facebook site): September 1, 2008 * According to estimates by the Alban Institute in Washington, D.C., at least 17 percent of clergy suffer from stress or burnout. * “The Charlotte Observer” reported. About 1,400 ministers a year call a toll-free hot line of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), which counsels ministers […]
Praying for rain has its problems!
(from my irreverent mate Alan): Praying for rain,always runs the danger of confusing God. Pray for rain in Sydney,and the wheat farmers in Morowa are praying for clear skies for harvest. God,herself, may have different ideas. Take the US Presidential campaign. James Dobson,old time warrior of the political and religious right,and whose Focus on the […]
Labor Day and beyond–2008
Deacon Tom Cornell St. Mary’s Church, Marlboro, N.Y. (The article below appears in the Sept/Oct 2008 issue of Tikkun Magazine. If you don’t yet subscribe, please do so by going to http://www.tikkun.org or, better yet, joining the Network of Spiritual Progressives at http://www.spiritualprogressives.org, membership in which includes a free sub to Tikkun) It’s Labor Day […]
Ode To Spell Check Her
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All of God
Sent by a friend today: “All of God is right where you are now and nowhere else. I AM is one. There is no second I AM to stand in your light, to put up the feeblest opposition. All is as you would have it because you are Who you are. Here is no spark […]
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