Rowland Croucher
Faithfulness
A mangled phrase which is attributed to early Saxons; To wit; [Trans from the Saxon] If a man is married to Kate and dallies with Edythe, he will lose Kate ; For, it is truly said; “You cannot have your Kate and Edythe also”
Christmas Debrief
Christmas Debrief by Leigh Wilson – Hewett Community Church of Christ Christmas is over, and what difference has it made to us? Angelus Silesius, the ancient poet, said, “Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, ‘if he’s not born in you, your soul is still forlorn” What new life has been born in […]
Democracy
Britain has too many flaws to lecture about democracy Thursday, January 03, 2008 By Simon Jenkins Democracy is looking sick just now. At the start of 2008 Churchill’s nostrum that it is the worst form of government “except for the others” is being tested close to destruction, assassinated in Pakistan, sabotaged in Kenya, massacred in […]
The Internet and the rise of porn
Maree Crabbe and David Corlett January 3, 2008 ON THE Thursday before Christmas, a judge sentenced a Melbourne man convicted of raping a woman to 11 years’ jail. The judge, Damian Murphy, said the perpetrator, Andrew Bowen, 20, had used the internet to access hardcore pornography and to learn how to avoid leaving evidence at […]
Planets pointed to Bethlehem
December 24, 2007 12:00am IT’S long been a puzzle for Christian astronomers, and now an American professor thinks he has it figured out. His quest: discovering what was “the star in the East” that led wise men to Bethlehem. Indiana theoretical astrophysicist Grant Mathews studied NASA databases to come up with his theory. He found […]
Another dumb thought
http://jmm.org.au/articles/6734.htm Do atheists like deviled eggs?
Creation Vs. Evolution debate
To the question: Should we have an Evolution Day to debate Creation vs. Evolution here are three well-informed comments: * My concern about this sort of exercise is not the content of the debate but the side effects of the debating. People looking on won’t see the importance of the matter in relation to their […]
Banana Logistics
Dec. 30, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Timing, as we are so often told, is everything. That supposed truism will be on display in 24 time-zones around the globe come Monday night as 2008 is ushered at 24 different midnight hours. Nowhere will it be more in evidence than in Manhattan’s Times Square as at […]
What Seventh Day Adventists Believe
(I’m speaking at their national conference in February 2008, and found this simple statement of their beliefs. Rowland.) 1. Who wrote the Bible? The Holy Spirit inspired followers of God to speak and write the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Who is God? There is one God, made up of three […]
Benazir Bhutto – violence begets violence
U2 have a song called ‘Peace on Earth’ which I take as a song of frustration at the lack of peace at a time of year when we see those words on Christmas cards and hear them in church services the world over. That song became real to me again after hearing of the assassination […]
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