Rowland Croucher
Conservatives
Oct. 21, 2007 Can’t Be That Stupid By Harry T. Cook The perpetually and understandably enraged Paul Krugman, Princeton economist and New York Times op-ed columnist, is saying in a new book that conservatism is essentially a set of unfair principles (?) that, should they be fully implemented, will favor rich white males and those […]
In the Pursuit of Justice
Oct. 21, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 18: 1-8a We meet in today’s gospel two characters: one called a widow and the other an unjust judge. Those who would have heard this parable in the First Century C.E. would have seen immediately what the gospeler was driving at. In the social scheme of things […]
Resurrecting Jesus (Dale Allison)
Three good Amazon.com reviews – of a book recommended by a friend who is a NT professor… Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition And Its Interpreters (Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement) (Paperback) by Dale C., Jr. Allison (Author) Truly risen?, January 12, 2007 By J. D. Walters “koshte” (Princeton, NJ) The problem […]
New Testament Ethics
A friend who is a NT professor recommended this book on Christian ethics. Here are some of the highest-ranking Amazon.com reviews. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics (Paperback) by Richard B. Hays (Author) THE Book on New Testament Ethics, August 8, 2005 By […]
Ten Irrational Ideas
From Albert Ellis, here are ten irrational ideas. Irrational Idea #1 You must have love or approval from all the people you find significant. Irrational Idea #2 You must prove thoroughly competent, adequate, and achieving. * Variation: You must have competence or talent in some important area. Irrational Idea #3 When people act obnoxiously and […]
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover) by Paul Collier (Author) Some Amazon.com Reviews: Realism about Global Poverty, October 17, 2007 By Robert B. Reese Paul Collier. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It. New York: […]
Rich and poor and enough
From a friend: The world today has lost the meaning of the concept of “enough”; without it we will always have rich and poor, but they will always be defined as those who have more than we do and those who have less than we do, but the real meaning of rich is simply having […]
The First and Last Enemy-Jew Hatred in Islam
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BCADBEC2-49F1-459D-9558-E4DEC92EE80E The First and Last Enemy By Andrew G. Bostom FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/19/2007 (The following is a text of a speech delivered at the “Counterjihad” conference in Brussels, Belgium, October 18, 2007) Fawaz Damra, the former Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland was convicted in 2004 for lying to immigration officials about his links […]
The Dawkins Delusion?
Book Review – The Dawkins Delusion?, Alister McGrath with Joanna Collicutt McGrath, 2007 This is a timely book that was needed to expose some of the nonsense that Richard Dawkins has put forward in his book The God Delusion. It is to be recommended if you struggle with some of the arguments that Dawkins has […]
Christian Bookstore Owner Was Tortured Before His Death
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:05:02 +0200 The owner of a Christian bookstore in the Gaza Strip who was found dead this weekend was publicly beaten by Islamic gunmen accusing him of spreading Christianity, witnesses and Palestinian Arab security officials said. The body of Rami Ayyad, director of Gaza’s only Christian bookstore, was found Sunday riddled […]
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