Rowland Croucher
The Golden Compass
Another note from a friend: This link below is to a fascinating discussion between Rowan Williams and author Philip Pullman. He may be an atheist, but he is certainly interested in spirituality. They discuss religious education and the idea that all people do have religious experience. The UK’s Telegraph newspaper published this under, ‘The Dark […]
Philosophy: A Mini-Course on Epistemology
http://radicalacademy.com/prcminicourseepistemology1.htm
Australian Religious News… Interesting
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * ABORIGINAL ROLE MODEL TALKS ABOUT ABUSE * FEMINIST PARLIAMENTARY NETWORK CONTROLS VOTING ON ABORTION AND CLONING * ACTOR RUSSELL CROWE PLANS TO BE BAPTIZED ———————————————– ABORIGINAL ROLE MODEL TALKS ABOUT ABUSE It’s’ time for the abuse and violence in indigenous communities to be addressed, a young Aboriginal role model says. […]
Culture: Western vs Muslim
Thursday, Nov. 08, 2007 Indecent Exposure By Carla Power Reams have been written on the differences between Islamic and Western societies, but for sheer pithiness, it’s hard to beat a quip by my former colleague, a Pakistani scholar of Islamic studies. I’d strolled into his office one day to find him on the floor, at […]
State of the planet in graphics
According to the UN’s latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with “a remarkable lack of urgency”.
Shopping for a Church Online
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald USA Today 10/28/07 4:00 AM PT At Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Ariz., worship services began streaming live over the Internet in September. Video services are available every Sunday morning on the church’s Web site. “We’re working as fast as we can to add those components to help people feel […]
Kevin Rudd’s political cowardice
18-Oct-2007 By Scott Stephens Kevin 07On Sunday afternoon, Kevin Rudd confirmed that his official election campaign will be the vanity exercise, the gutless appeal to a shallow and disaffected electorate, that most of us suspected it would be. Positioned against the ubiquitous sky-blue billboard — which now bears the rather pretentious slogan ‘New Leadership’ — […]
Old Age
SERENITY Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, “How old was your husband?” “98,” she replied. “Two years older than me” “So you’re 96,” the undertaker commented. She responded, “Hardly worth going home, is it? Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: “And what do you think is […]
Wisdom
A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.
When Whites last killed Aborigines
From a knowledgeable netfriend: ‘The last aborigene “hunt” was in North-Western Australia in 1929. Instigated by an aboriginal male objecting to a white male raping his wife. He was supposed to stand by and watch, apparently. He speared the white man and the couple left. The locals, led by the police, went on a hunt […]
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