Rowland Croucher
Faith and doubt
(from http://www.westarkchurchofchrist.org/chadwell/1997/051197pm.htm ) FAITH GROWS THROUGH DOUBT If you are observing a person’s faith, how can you tell if that faith is strong? That sounds like a very simple question that should have a very simple answer. But neither the question nor the answer is simple. We do have some ready made answers for that […]
Malaysians to vote against creeping Islamisation
Subj: Malaysians to vote against creeping Islamisation. For a long, long time, progressive Malaysians have been content with the status quo, believing the only alternative was the instant Islamisation advocated by PAS (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia). What they did not realise however was that the status quo meant creeping Islamisation. For background see WEA RLC News […]
Caliphate is the New Jihad
*Sightings *3/6/08 *Caliphate* is the New *Jihad* — Omer M. Mozaffar The reader is surely familiar with the phrase “*Islam* means peace”, a response to the linkages of Islam with violence. Similarly, perhaps the most common statement from Muslims since September 11, 2001 is “*jihad* does not mean holy war, but struggle.” Now Muslim apologists […]
Stealing back time
There are never enough hours in the day! Where has the year gone?! Is it that time already? These are the common questions of a society out of time; a society like ours, in which we have so much we want to do, or as Bono puts it ‘where freedom looks like too many choices’. […]
Fashion
Many of us [those over 40, WAY over 40, or hovering near 40] are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We are unsure about the kind of image we are projecting and whether or not we are correct as we try to conform to current fashions. Despite what you may have seen, the […]
Belarus, Kyrgyzstan
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 ================================================= 5 March 2008 BELARUS: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM PETITION DELIVERED, BUT PROTESTANT FINES CONTINUE http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1097 Belarus seems to be increasing its use of technical […]
Norway’s Ark
By Harry T. Cook While the Earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease – so went Yahweh’s promise to Noah once the great inundation had ebbed. It was my first Sunday school memory verse learned by rote as a six-year-old boy among […]
Truth and Freedom
(Another from my liberal episcopal friend…) Rehearsal John 11: 18-44 By Harry T. Cook In June 1963, the late Martin Luther King Jr. came to Detroit to lead a civil rights march along the city’s premiere street known as Woodward Avenue. Nothing like it had ever occurred in the Motor City. Some 125,000 people, including […]
Belief and Doubt
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
Bono’s clapping
Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the Entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous. At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow he asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in […]
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