(You don’t hear too many sermons like this !) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IacEfYr9xNk — Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ (20,000 articles 4000 humor) Blogs – http://rowlandsblogs.blogspot.com/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/ Funny Jokes and Pics – http://funnyjokesnpics.blogspot.com/
From a friend: I like to think there are three works about God. One is autobiographical, God is the author – we call it creation. It seems too big for us to comprehend though it is wonderful to try. Second is biographical by a close relative – we call it incarnation, smaller for us to […]
GOD IS OK – IT IS JUST THE RELIGION BIT WE DONT LIKE Australia is one of the least devout countries in the Western world, although two-thirds of its population identifies itself as Christian, an international survey has found. Religion does not play a central part in the lives of many Australians: 48 per cent […]
Carol Herman Sunday, August 3, 2008 Noted social critic Herbert London opens his latest book with a simple statement: “Belief matters.” Every bit a cri de coeur, in little more than 100 pages Mr. London goes on to show how Americans, to the contrary, have come to embrace secularism – and do so at their […]
Ethics & Public Policy Essays by Harry T. Cook August 1, 2008 By Harry T. Cook Come November voters in Colorado will be asked to cast ballots for or against the idea that a fertilized human egg is a “person.” By her own admission, a leader of Colorado Right to Life says the referendum is […]
While I am equally outraged at the injustices of the Chinese regime, some questions about the Olympic boycott remain for me. I wonder if those intending to boycott the Chinese games did the same for the Sydney games. The Australian government, and therefore the Australian people, do not have clean hands when it comes to […]
Another from my liberal friend: posted here for mature thought rather than my endorsement of all Harry’s ideas. Rowland. **** The Religion Works Sermons by Harry T. Cook August 3, 2008 To read this week’s sermon “Taking the Bible Literally Or Seriously,” just scroll down. Matthew’s version of the “feeding of the five thousand” is […]
I have just returned from six exhausting days at the Lambeth Conference. Yes, it was ‘full on’ from morning to night. I confess that I never made Morning Prayer at 6.30 a.m., but along with most of the bishops I was present at the 7.15 a.m. Eucharist, and from then on there was no stopping. […]
* HINDU NATIONALIST CONFIDENCE GROWS * MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP FACING CRISIS WITH SOARING FUEL COSTS * THAI-CAMBODIA DISPUTE – PRAY FOR RECONCILIATION * IRAN: TORTURED CHRISTIAN FLEES * SOUTH DAKOTA FIRST USA ABORTION FREE STATE AFTER ABORTIONISTS REFUSE TO WORK * SON OF EVANGELIST GREG LAURIE, KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT ———————————————– HINDU NATIONALIST CONFIDENCE GROWS […]
By Avi Issacharoff Haaretz Magazine 31 July 2008 A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on […]