Rowland Croucher
Apostasy from Islam
Click here for printable version Apostasy in the Media Highlighting freedom for apostates from Islam “I believe that the classical law of apostasy in Islam is wrong and based on a misunderstanding” – Usama Hassan Dear Christian Friends, I am delighted to see how the British media have in recent months begun to focus on […]
Four Christian teachers murdered in Somalia
Four Christian teachers, two of them converts from Islam, were murdered by Islamic militants last Sunday, 13 April, in Beledweyne in south-central Somalia. Mr Daud Assan Ali (aged 64), Ms Rehana Ahmed (aged 32), both of Somali origin, and two Kenyans were shot and killed when militants stormed the school where the Christians were sleeping. […]
Anzac Day and Nonviolence
(In response to another pastor asking for help re leading an Anzac Day service): I’m sure you’re asking this on a purely practical level, but I have to say I think it’s an excellent question…what should a follower of the crucified Jesus do when asked to lead a group of people in the spirituality of […]
Wisdom
Katherine Hepburn said: “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard
John Stott
From a friend: Reading your comments about John Stott reminds me of having heard him speak on the Gospel and the Church back in 1973 At the University of Papua New Guinea. John having finished his talk, invited questions from the audience. One of the nationals asked him a question and John, said ” You […]
Belarus; Turkmenistan; Turkey
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 14 April 2008 BELARUS: BAROQUE MONASTERY TO BE LUXURY HOTEL – OR RETURNED TO CATHOLICS? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1114 The Belarusian state appears to have […]
Bully Pulpit
By Harry T. Cook This essayist is one liberal for whom the emergence of Barack Obama as a serious candidate for President of the United States has not exactly amounted to the dawn of a messianic age. The junior senator from Illinois seems still a little green in some areas, despite his brilliant educational credentials […]
Facebook Friends Going AWOL 9:20pm Wednesday, Apr 16 About Face Between 2006 and 2007 the social networking site, Facebook, went from being the 60th to the 7th most popular web site on the Internet but one year on there are signs that the Facebook bubble is bursting. A face to face conversation with about 90 […]
Definition of the Call/Calling
by Thomas Scarborough Dr. George N. Malek must be one of South Africa’s most abstruse theologians. He is, in fact, both a doctor of theology and a doctor of psychology. Among his many publications is a fourteen-page booklet titled THE CALLING TO THE PRIESTHOOD, which is the subject of this review. But first, some definitions. […]
Heresies
A Miscellany of Heresy By Jed Perkins. This is a list of heresies condemned by the Church in the Nicene Creed. Heresy comes from the Greek word for ‘choose’. In Christendom we are not to choose but rather ‘trust and obey’. Adoptionism – the view that Christ was a mere man upon whom God’s spirit […]
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