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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Review/summary: Anthony Venn-Brown: A Life of Unlearning (a preacher’s struggle with his homosexuality, church and faith). Revised ed., 2015.

‘Sitting on the edge of the cliff I cursed the day I was born.

ISIS Violence: shall we blame Islam?

Excerpts from a Eureka Street article On blaming Muslims for Paris by Justin Glyn

When terror strikes, Saudi Arabia evades responsibility

Laila Lalami November 18, 2015 We cannot defeat IS without defeating Wahhabi theology. And that means spending as much effort in defending liberal ideas. What happened in Paris on November 13 has happened before, in a shopping district of Beirut on November 12, in the skies over Egypt on October 31, at a cultural centre […]

Paris attacks were not ‘nihilism’ but sacred strategy

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 LEADING commentator Janet Daley’s article in Saturday’s Telegraph

How to confront this Islamo-Fascist plague

November 16, 2015 Bruce Hearn Mackinnon Enough is enough. We now need some straight talking, from mainstream Muslims but also from the leaders of the West.

National Anthems: an interesting comment on the ethics of abstaining

ANTHEM OUTRAGE REVEALS AUSTRALIA’S SPIRITUAL SHORTCOMINGS BY DR SIMON LONGSTAFF AO 02 NOVEMBER 2015 Australians wouldn’t have any problem with students skipping the anthem for reasons of physical health

Rene Girard and the Jesus-Driven Life

The Gist of Michael Hardin

Are the commands of Jesus only for Christians?

Nils von Kalm

Why the Paris climate treaty will be the flop of the year

The chief obstacle to such an agreement is exactly the same as it was at Kyoto in 1997 Political leaders, officials and green activists from all over the world will converge on Paris later this month, hoping for a treaty to save us all from further global warming

British doctor: I cannot forget Syria’s dead and dying children

I have seen the horrors of Syria. This Friday we can end them During heart-rending medical missions to Aleppo, I operated on the innocent victims of a war the West has failed to stop. This week’s peace conference must replace inaction with action The remains of the Great Mosque in Aleppo. The great minaret – […]