Rowland Croucher
Religious Freedom
*Sightings* 1/28/08 Virginia and Religious Freedom — Martin E. Marty In January of 1777 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, a committee met to revise Virginia’s laws as it was becoming a state. Thomas Jefferson then and there drafted a “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” an antecedent to the First Amendment of the Constitution. I’ve been to several […]
Interesting idea about Time
From a scientist-friend (1/2008): There is a new theory around you will like! One group is now claiming that time is not a true dimension at all, but simply a statistical property of the universe, a bit like temperature. They claim it comes about from observing collapsing wave functions, so is only perceived by the […]
Pakistani pastor murdered
29th January 2008 Pakistani pastor murdered in North West Frontier Province: part of a pattern of anti-Christian threats and violence *Threatened by murder, kidnapping and intimidation, Christians are coming under pressure both from lawlessness and from Islamic radicalism in Pakistan`s North West Frontier Province which borders Afghanistan.* *Most recently, on January 17^th a church minister, […]
Faith and Culture Statement
29th January 2008 Barnabas Fund Response to the Yale Center for Faith and Culture Statement (“Loving God and Neighbor Together”…) January 24, 2008 Foreword “A Common Word Between Us and You”: A Path to Progress? Much ink has been spilled in recent years on the subject of interfaith dialogue, and particularly that between Christians, who […]
Nonsense
I was gazing in a newsagent’s window yesterday, at a rack of those funny plaques, and this one struck me as rather unique: “I’ve gone to find myself. If I get back before I return, keep me here.” For pure rubbish, it seems hard to beat, yet is seems to make “sense” well, grammatically. ================================ […]
Apologetics wisdom
Think: First, NOBODY ever changed religions because his (or her) own has been sufficiently insulted and lied about. Second, nothing gets interest piqued in something quite so fast as having someone start chicken-littling about it. Third, I don’t pay for volunteer labor. It cheapens the work.
Azerbaijan; Russia
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 ================================================= 22 January 2008 AZERBAIJAN: “PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE JAILED SOLELY FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS OR CONSCIENTIOUS BEHAVIOUR” http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1075 Five years after promising the […]
God on the nose with the ‘Me’ generation
Sarah Price January 27, 2008 NEARLY a third of Australian teenagers have no religious beliefs, new research has shown. But academics from Monash University and the Australian Catholic University found those with serious spiritual and religious beliefs were likely to be more involved in their communities and donate money than non-religious peers. One of the […]
Blonde and the Dog
A blonde and her husband are lying in bed listening to the next door neighbor’s dog. It has been in the backyard barking for hours and hours. The blonde jumps up out of bed and says, ‘I’ve had enough of this’. She goes downstairs. The blonde finally comes back up to bed and her husband […]
International News
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * PRESSURE MOUNTS ON KENYA TO DEFUSE CRISIS * MOTION TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS SPEECH DEFEATED IN UK HOMOSEXUAL HATE CRIMES BILL * CHRISTIAN ARTIST REJECTED AND RIDICULED ON AMERICAN IDOL BECAUSE OF HIS MORAL STAND * CHRISTIANS TO JOIN POPULAR UK PSYCHIC SHOW PANEL * THE AMAZING HEALING POWER OF FORGIVENESS […]
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