Rowland Croucher
When Christmas isn’t merry
When Christmas isn’t merry. One of the pastors at my church often reminds us that, while Christmas is a time of great rejoicing when we celebrate the birth of Jesus, it is also a time when the lonely are lonelier and the poor are poorer. I recently found a few great articles talking about the […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ISLAMIC MILITANTS SENTENCED FOR ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN INDONESIA * BRITISH TEDDY BEAR TEACHER HOME AT LAST * TWO UK CHURCHES RE-IGNITE MINISTRY * CHURCH SUPPLIES SAFE WATER TO POISONED VILLAGES IN BANGLADESH * UGANDAN CHRISTIANS MOBILIZE PRAYER TO TRANSFORM KAMPALA * CHINESE PRESS PRINTS 50 MILLION BIBLES ———————————————– ISLAMIC […]
How Do You Decide Who To Marry?
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids) You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. — Alan, age 10 No person really decides before they grow up who […]
Meganumbers
*Sightings *12/10/07 — Martin E. Marty *WORLD* magazine represents political-religious conservatism, and is rarely self-critical about its commitments, but much of its reporting is a scrutinizing of the religious right and churchly movements that go with it. So one should pay attention to Warren Cole Smith’s “Numbers Racket: Survey Results on Megachurch Growth Do Not […]
Creativity question
Creativity question: How do you destroy a city without killing the humans who live in it? Four possibilities came up in our navy seminar that I can recall (to get the ball rolling): 1. A leaflet drop announcing that it will happen on a certain date to give time for humans to escape 2. Spreading […]
Belarus; Russia; Turkmenistan
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 ================================================= 7 December 2007 BELARUS: PARISH TO “LOSE NOTHING” WHEN VETERAN PRIEST EXPELLED? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1058 A religious affairs official in the south-eastern region of […]
Isaiah’s Optimism
Dec. 9, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Isaiah 11: 1-10 About 700 years before the New Testament era, a public intellectual named Isaiah was engaged in what we know today as “punditry,” that is the enterprise of interpreting current events in light of the past and the present. Isaiah also did what many pundits do: […]
Pollution and Policy
*Sightings *12/6/07 — Spencer Dew In January of 1857 the British Raj began training their native Indian soldiers – *sepoys* – in the new weapon of the empire, the Enfield musket. The cartridges, the paper tips of which had to be bitten off, were lubricated with animal grease. Rumor quickly spread that both pig and […]
Creativity
Geoff Leslie (a friend who is a rural pastor) wrote: Many will be wondering how the drought is affecting rural areas at this time. It’s been an interesting season. Irrigation in the Murray Valley has been dramatically cut this year even worse than last year, and there is always the nagging doubt that we need […]
Radio Interview: Parliament of the World’s Religions
Here’s an interview with Rodney Olsen from Sonshine FM, Western Australia. I was asked to represent the ‘evangelical’ view about dialogue with people of other faiths. http://mpegmedia.sonshinefm.ws/feeds/SUN120607_1324.mp3 Rowland Croucher December 6th, 2007
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