Rowland Croucher
God, power and money (Benny Hinn)
God, power and money March 3, 2008 The television evangelist Benny Hinn has an audience of millions – and makes millions. David Millikan joined the throng on stage intent on asking the American preacher a tough question. Benny Hinn. There is nothing mysterious about how you earn $US200 million ($215 million) a year promising people […]
J I Packer’s ordination to be revoked? (Same sex unions fallout)
J I Packer ¢â‚¬â„¢s Ordination to be Revoked? March 4, 2008 A Letter from Leslie Bentley About Dr. Jim Packer ¢â‚¬â„¢s Situation Posted by Kendall Harmon I am the spokesperson for St. John ¢â‚¬â„¢s Shaughnessy Anglican Church in Vancouver. Dr. Packer has been an honourary assistant at St. John ¢â‚¬â„¢s for well over 20 years. We are a church […]
Vatican Rules on Baptismal Language
Vatican Rules on Baptismal Language. March 4, 2008 Saturday, 1st March 2008. 10:01am By: George Conger. Religious Intelligence BAPTISMAL liturgies that omit the masculine names of the persons of the Trinity are invalid, the Roman Catholic Church has declared. In a statement released on Feb 29, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said […]
Strange Coincidences
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Lying: a commercial example
I buy a lot of my groceries online, because I don’t have time to go out each week to the out-of-town retail park where the big supermarkets are. Every time I go to the website, something I’ve bought regularly will suddenly be “unavailable”, and I’ll be offered a more expensive alternative, or the price will […]
As I faced my Maker
As I faced my Maker at the last Judgment, I knelt before the God along with the other souls. Before each of us laid our lives, like the squares of a quilt, in many piles. An Angel sat before each of us sewing our quilt squares together into a tapestry that is our life. But, […]
Pray for the World
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 ================================================= 25 February 2008 KAZAKHSTAN: INCREASED PRESSURE TO COMPLETE INTRUSIVE QUESTIONNAIRES http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1092 For some years, Kazakhstan has been demanding that non-Muslim religious communities […]
Lent exposes my character flaws
A few weeks ago on Shrove Tuesday I spent the evening with friends entering into the age-old tradition of eating pancakes. Being somewhat ignorant of this annual ritual, I asked one of my friends what Shrove Tuesday is all about and why we eat pancakes to commemorate it. When he told me that it is […]
Evolution: a Theory
Ethics and Public Policy Essays by Harry T. Cook March 2, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scroll down on this screen and you will find this week’s essay, “Just A Theory,” being commentary upon a recent decision of education officials in Florida concerning the teaching of evolution. It is an arrangement with which both ardent agnostics and fervent […]
I Once Was Blind, But Now I See
John 9: 1-38 By Harry T. Cook John Newton did not write those words in his hymn “Amazing Grace” because he could not physically see. He wrote them because, over time, he began to see things differently – things having to do with the treatment of African people sold in slavery. What he had once […]
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