Rowland Croucher
Saint Theresa’s Prayer
May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be […]
Pray For The World (may 2008)
Today’s Headlines: CHINA MEDIA WARN THAT DEATH TOLL COULD RISE SHARPLY IN BANGKOK, TEAM TRAINS BURMESE IN DISASTER RESPONSE SUDAN BISHOP SAYS KHARTOUM ATTACKS PINPOINT DARFUR’S PLIGHT SURVEY: US CONGREGATIONS GAVE $8.8 BILLION TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MOST POPULAR BIBLE GOES MOBILE Today’s Top Stories: CHINA MEDIA WARN THAT DEATH TOLL COULD RISE SHARPLY Sources Mission […]
The Legal Challenges of Religious Polygamy
*Sightings* 5/15/08 Editor’s Note: Last Monday’s column, “Manifesto,” erroneously named Gary Jacobs as the author of a *Wall Street Journal* column on the Evangelical Manifesto. The author is Alan Jacobs, of Wheaton College. — John Witte, Jr. A century and a half ago, Mormons made national headlines by claiming a First Amendment right to practice […]
Journalist scrutinises religion beat amid spiritual ‘intolerance’
May 16, 2008 The theological and political divisions within the US religious landscape have made the once-quiet “religion beat” one of the most interesting, if intense, journalistic assignments in the United States today, writes a prominent award-winning reporter who covers religion. “As a reporter covering religion at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the last four […]
Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality
Judaism ¹s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality DENNIS PRAGER When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible. Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance […]
Religion (Einstein)
Einstein: Bible Is ‘Primitive, Pretty Childish’ LONDON , Associated Press 8 hours ago Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist’s religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein […]
Modern Atheism
A crazy little thing called love David Brooks May 14, 2008 A new group of assertive atheists is doing battle with defenders of faith. IN 1996, Tom Wolfe wrote a brilliant essay called “Sorry, but Your Soul just Died,” in which he captured the militant materialism of some modern scientists. To these self-confident researchers, the […]
Holocaust Heroine
Incredibly brave ‘mother’ of Warsaw’s Holocaust children May 14, 2008 IRENA SENDLER, SOCIAL WORKER 15-2-1910 — 12-5-2008 IRENA Sendler, who is credited with having saved the lives of about 2500 Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and was tortured by the Gestapo, has died. She was 98. By 1942, the Germans […]
Touche
During the 1976 USA bicentenary celebrations, the Procrastinators Club of America sent a letter of complaint to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London. In 1752 this company had cast the original Liberty Bell, which was defective from the beginning and developed its famous crack almost ninety years later. Their tongue in cheek complaint included queries […]
Exaggerated Convert Figures Could Cost Lives
14th May 2008 Converts from Islam to Christianity are increasingly concerned about a number of reports in recent months which have cited astounding statistics on conversion. It is true – and a matter for thankfulness to God – that more Muslims are now coming to Christ than at any other time in history. However, they […]
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