Rowland Croucher
Searching for God in the Brain
Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith By David Biello MYSTICAL HOT SPOTS: In a 2006 study the recall by nuns of communion with God invigorated the brains caudate nucleus, insula, inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and medial […]
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
Confront sexual abuse, don’t manage it 15-Nov-2007 By Geoffrey Robinson The Cardinal Secretary of State at the Vatican is usually thought to hold the second highest office in the Catholic Church. The present Secretary, Cardinal Bertone, was a personal appointment by the pope. So it was disheartening when, on a recent visit to the United […]
Opposition to online gambling
Dear all, Please find attached my letter to NSW Premier Morris Iemma and the NSW Minister for Gaming and Racing, Mr Graham West. The letter is based on a similar letter written by the Director of HopeStreet, Rev Colin Scott. HopeStreet is the NSW Baptist inner city ministries agency, which includes counselling of problem gamblers. […]
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A Sermon For Reformation Sunday
29 October 1995 by Stanley Hauerwas Joel 2:23-32 — 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 — Luke 18:9-14 I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually I have to put it more strongly than that. I do not like Reformation Sunday, period. I do no understand why it […]
Christian Issues in Elections
Three guys in our church who in previous elections were sick of the profoundly inadequate “Christian issues” checklists that supposedly represented the issues that were of concern to them as Christians, put their heads together and see if they could do better. The project took them several months and caused them to research and think […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * A BACKGROUND BRIEFING TO PAKISTAN’S INTERNAL PROBLEMS * TWO AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS TRAPPED INSIDE CHINA AS AUTHORITIES SHUTDOWN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES * DROUGHT-PLAGUED STATES IN AMERICA FIGHT OVER WATER * US SENATE PROBE TARGETS TELEVANGELISTS * SPIRITUAL BOMB HITS FIJI * AL-QAEDA GROOMING CHILDREN TO ATTACK BRITAIN ———————————————– A BACKGROUND BRIEFING TO […]
Reaching Young Adults
In 1994, a commission convened by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, with Joseph A. Califano, Jr. as chair, issued a rather alarmist report, “Rethinking Rites of Passage: Substance Abuse on America’s Campuses.” The report invented the phrase “binge drinking.” It noted that one in three college students drinks primarily to […]
Definition of ‘fundamentalism’
I read this somewhere: I see fundamentalism as “believing you have nothing to learn from an ‘other’ while believing the other has a lot to learn from you”. There are Islamic fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, Evangelical fundamentalists, so why can’t there be Liberal fundamentalists…? I’ve certainly noticed behaviour from ‘liberals’ that fits my description above?
The Golden Compass
(Note from Rowland: there have been extensive discussions on this in a few lists I belong to. Watch this web/space for more). http://studiobrien.com/site/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=1 55&Itemid=76 Written by Michael D. O’Brien Tuesday, 23 October 2007 The Golden Compass — His Dark Materials Philip Pullman takes the fantasy genre to the next level by Michael D. O’Brien A […]
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