Rowland Croucher
Is Mummy Near the Phone Dear?
Rrriiiiinnnnggg, rrriiiinnnngg ‘Hello?’ ‘Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mummy near the phone?’ ‘No, Daddy. She’s upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.’ After a brief pause, Daddy says, ‘But honey, you haven’t got an Uncle Paul.’ Oh yes I do, and he’s upstairs in the room with Mummy, right now.’ Brief pause. ‘Uh, okay […]
Religious trends and our religious future
Church of England Newspaper If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in […]
Hope
The women returned from the cemetery on the first Easter morning, announcing, He is Risen! The response of the disciples, the church, us? With one voice we responded that the women preached an idle tale (Luke 24:11). What is there about us that tends to disbelieve the possibility of resurrection, to be cynical and hopeless? […]
The Idolatry of America
*Sightings* 6/2/08 — Martin E. Marty Let Damon Linker, author of *The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege*summarize Charles Marsh and his *Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Cultural Captivity*: “A professor of religion at the University of Virginia and a devout evangelical, Marsh believes that the politicization of Christianity in recent years—using the good […]
Church is not doing enough to convert UK Muslims
Church is not doing enough to convert UK Muslims, says bishop By JONATHAN PETRE The Daily Mail [May 29 2008] The Church of England was accused by one of its most senior bishops yesterday of failing in its duty to convert British Muslims to Christianity. The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, said […]
Happy and Unhappy Nations
Many unhappy returns, from a ravenous nation * Seamus Bradley * June 1, 2008 AUSTRALIA has a super abundance of happiness, an emotional state that’s hard to measure and impossible to weigh up. Yet social scientists claim it is as valid a measure of a country’s success as the simple indicators used by economists, such […]
Religion is a product of evolution, software suggests
* 11:56 27 May 2008 * NewScientist.com news service * Ewen Callaway God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved By distilling religious belief into a genetic predisposition to pass along unverifiable information, the program predicts that religion will flourish. However, religion only takes hold if non-believers […]
Old Age is a Gift
Old Age, I decided, is a gift I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person […]
The U. S. Presidential Race and Religion
’08 race has got religion. Is that good? A greater focus on candidates’ faith is generally applauded, but some cite reasons for caution. By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the May 28, 2008 edition There was Mitt Romney’s speech to try to dispel concerns about his Mormon faith. There […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter June 2008
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * WHY MYANMAR’S MILITARY JUNTA STEALS FOREIGN AID * BRITAIN ALLOWS MIXED ANIMAL-HUMAN EMBRYOS * EFFECTS OF CYCLONE ON MYANMAR ESCALATING * INDONESIAN CHRISTIAN VILLAGE BURNT TO THE GROUND BY MUSLIMS * HOMOSEXUALS WIN LANDMARK PARENTING DECISION IN BRITAIN * IRAQI PRESIDENT AFFIRMS CHRISTIAN PRESENCE IN IRAQ ———————————————– WHY MYANMAR’S MILITARY […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,756 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress