Rowland Croucher
Following Fire
Book Review – Following Fire, Cheryl Catford (ed.), 2008 Released by UNOH Publications, this is a collection of essays and articles by some of the world’s most engaged Christians about how the Spirit leads us to fight injustice. When I first looked at some of the names of the contributors to this work I realised […]
Bosnia: Catholic Church targeted for terror
Subj: Bosnia: Catholic Church targeted for terror. — with implications for Western Europe ISN Security Watch reports: “Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federation Anti-Terror Unit on 20 March arrested five men: Rijad Rustempasic, Muhamed Meco, Abdulah Handzic and Edis Velic, all in their early thirties and from Sarajevo, along with Muhamed Ficer, from the central Bosnian city […]
Rite of Passage
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry […]
Speeding Motorist
As a highway patrol car chased down a speeding motorist, the officer was amazed to see a demure little old lady at the wheel. When he asked to see her licence, she shook her head. “I’ve never had one!” she said. “What about your car registration papers?” he asked. “I wouldn’t know about them. ” […]
Wedding reading from Kahlil Gibran
This reading from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran, is often used in weddings: Then Almitra spoke again and said, “And what of Marriage, master?” And he answered saying: “You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be […]
Supermarket Surround Sound
A new supermarket franchise is opening a whole new experience in shopping… Their produce departments have automatic water misting systems to keep everything fresh. Each time it goes on, you’ll hear the sound of thunder and you can actually detect the fragrance of fresh rain. When you approach their dairy sections, you hear cows mooing […]
Creative Initiatives in Theological Education
A theologian-friend asked for some ideas, for a conference-paper he’s giving… Preface: I’ve been privileged to have been a teacher/’adjunct prof’ at several seminaries in several countries, and although it’s difficult to generalize, here are a few of my thoughts in two sections: 1. Major Creative Initiatives: 1-1: Theological colleges preparing future pastors for pastoral […]
History’s Worst Decisions and Greatest Scandals
History’s Worst Decisions (Stephen Weir, 2005), History’s Greatest Scandals (Ed Wright et. al, 2006), (Murdoch Books/Pier 9). If you want to occupy part of your holidays – as I have just done – reading about history’s idiots/ idiotics, you can’t go past these two 250-page volumes. But first, a quiz to test your knowledge of […]
Max
Paul nervously knocked on his blind date’s 17th floor flats door. She turned out to be as beautiful and charming as his friends had said. “I’ll be ready in a few minutes,” she said. “Why don’t you play with Max while you’re waiting? He does wonderful tricks. He can roll over, shake hands, sit up […]
Thinking Resurrection
Thinking Resurrection. April 9, 2008 Gerhard Manley Hopkins has a poem in which he inserts the prayer, ¢â‚¬ËœEaster in us. ¢â‚¬â„¢ He uses the noun Easter as a verb. ¢â‚¬ËœEaster in us. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Let Easter get in to us, come where we live, permeate our souls. Which sounds not only grammatically, but also theologically strange. But perhaps […]
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