Rowland Croucher
Installing a Husband
Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and […]
Coming out in church
Gays and the Anglican church have been in the news in the past week or so, particularly at the Anglican general synod in Canberra. The global Anglican church has been brought to the brink of schism by the passionate attitudes unleashed in 2003 when a gay bishop was ordained in the United States and same-sex […]
The Evolution of Morality
Steven Pinker February 23, 2008 WHICH of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? For most, it’s an easy question. Mother Teresa, famous for ministering to the poor in Calcutta, has been beatified by the Vatican, awarded the Nobel peace prize and ranked in a […]
The Fishmonger
A customer at the Tesco’s fresh fish counter marvelled at the fishmongers quick wit and intelligence. “Tell me, Fishmonger, what makes you so brainy?” “I wouldn’t share my secret with just anyone,” the fishmonger replies, lowering his voice so the other shoppers won’t hear. “But since you’re a good and faithful customer, I’ll let you […]
Compensation for Aborigines?
A wonderful start, but compensation? Peter Read February 9, 2008 CONGRATULATIONS, Prime Minister, on planning your apology to the removed children and their families. You may not realise how incredibly important it will be for the stolen generations to hear the words: “We thought it was right for the country, now we realise it was […]
Healing the psychological wounds of war
By Andrew J. Weaver 21 Feb 2008 What must [hu]mankind be, before such a thing as war could ever be known or thought of upon earth? How shocking, how inconceivable a want must there have been of common understanding, as well as common humanity, before any two Governors, or any two nations in the universe, […]
Beyond rich-poor stereotypes
By Paul Mukerji 21 Feb 2008 One morning, a couple of days after arriving as part of a recent Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to Colombia, we gathered in the park opposite our hotel for our morning reflection in which we touched upon a number of themes including poverty. The expression “rich and poor” came […]
Women walking behind their husbands
WOMEN WALK 5 PACES BEHIND THEIR HUSBANDS Barbara Walters of Television’s 20/20 did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afganistan, several years before the Afgan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked 5 paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms Walter’s […]
What is intelligence, anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn’t mean anything. The next […]
Some notes on Prayer
Some jottings from/prompted by Mark Gibbard’s Twentieth Century Men of Prayer (SCM, 1974): We are always beginners in the life of prayer (Thomas Merton) God is seeking us before we are seeking him… those seeking God have already found him (Pascal) When I cease to accept a new idea, simply because it’s new, call in […]
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