Rowland Croucher
Foreign Aid
A matter of life and death that transcends party politics Tim Costello I AM not campaigning for Kevin Rudd in this federal election. And equally I am not campaigning against the Government, the Prime Minister, or my brother. But I have bought into the election campaign because I believe the issue of overseas aid and […]
International News
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CHINA REACHES AN OFFICIAL FIGURE OF 130 MILLION CHRISTIANS * REPORT ON ASIAN REGIONAL PRAYER SUMMIT * KIWIS STAND UNITED IN PRAYER AT SOLEMN ASSEMBLY * INCREASING NUMBER OF DOCTORS IN THE UK REFUSING TO PERFORM ABORTIONS * AFRICAN CLERIC SAYS CHURCH HAS A PROPHETIC ROLE AND MUST NOT REMAIN […]
Church and State
Caesar’s Coin: How should Church and State interact? The issue of Church/State relations is a perennial electioneering topic: this time it was on the table even before the official campaign began. Encounter this week puts a history behind the idea. This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its […]
Seventh-day Adventists
They’re known for their hospitals and health food, but the Seventh-day Adventists began as part of the 19th Century Revival in the ‘burnt over’ district of the Northeastern United States. This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional […]
Relitgious Right (Martin Marty)
*Sightings *11/05/07 Schadenfreude — Martin E. Marty The always-too-loud TV in the airport club lounge Wednesday was sensationally broadcasting news of the scandal of that day: Another politician nabbed for sexual transgressions though he’d long and enthusiastically voted to ban such activities. The story inspired the sippers near me to engage in ribaldry: “Another family […]
On Not Reaching Our Culture Through Our Preaching
Recently I led a group of pastors in a discussion about our preaching. When I asked the pastors, “What areas would you like help with in your preaching?” most of them responded with, “I want help in making connection with my listeners, relating the gospel to their everyday lives.” “I want to preach sermons which […]
N C L S and your church
G’day Has anyone accessed National Church Life Survey (NCLS) 2006 data and/ or done anything with it in your church? I appreciated looking at the congregational summaries for two of the emerging church case studies I have been researching. It has provided helpful real data of how much and where the reality matches up to […]
Kazakhstan; Russia; Transdniester
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 ================================================= 2 November 2007 KAZAKHSTAN: STATE AND FORMER USER FIGHT OVER HARE KRISHNA FARM http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1042 A court in Kazakhstan has decided to hand […]
Anti-gay Church ordered to pay $10.9 million damages
Kansas church liable in Marine funeral protest ================================= BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s death was […]
Outsiders
From a netfriend: Have you read Pratchett yet, like wot you was told to? 😉 He has a lovely comment about Nanny Ogg’s huge extended family, who thrive on internal feuding – but just let an outsider make a negative remark to one Ogg about another Ogg, and the whole clan slams together like a […]
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