Rowland Croucher
Police ran over my foot
Sep 5 2007 by Gemma Williams, South Wales Echo A PEDESTRIAN knocked down by a South Wales Police patrol car was given an £80 fine – for denting it. Businessman Daniel Horne was walking home when the marked police car mounted the pavement and crushed his foot under the wheel. The apologetic Pc took him […]
Friends
Everything becomes possible by the mere presence of someone who knows how to listen, to love and to give of himself.’ Elie Wiesel
Wonder
“Concepts create idols. Only wonder understands.” –Gregory of Nissa
Youth and the church
Wake Up, Church! The youth are here. But will they stay? Reading an issue of the Presbyterian Record such as this one leaves me with such mixed emotions: joyous amazement at the vitality and accomplishments of youth in their church and community, and frustrated bewilderment that despite their proven abilities, some of them find their […]
Cries from the heart (rural ministry)
Cries from the heart An international meeting of representatives from rural churches has called for solidarity between rural producers and urban consumers to ensure the cooperative production of food and the shortening of the supply chain between producer and consumer. Eighty-one people from 12 nations gathered for the International Rural Church Association’s (IRCA) fourth quadrennial […]
A Very True Quote re Islam
“… If you’re even vaguely familiar with classical Islamic tradition, you’ll recognise at once that we’ve had our reformation, and it’s called al-Qaeda,” Waleed Aly, prominent Australian Muslim and media commentator The Age, Melbourne http://tinyurl.com/2o8m5h ¬ ¬ ¬ The full article: Renaissance man: Waleed Aly. September 1, 2007 THE world, as the pundits ritually remind us at […]
God doesn’t care what we call him
— Daniel Kynaston Recent comments by a controversial Dutch Bishop suggesting that “people of all faiths” call God “Allah” have not only caused a firestorm in his country and abroad, but also raised important questions about naming God. Drawing on the example of Christians in Indonesia, Catholic Bishop Martinus Muskens stated that calling God “Allah” […]
Does Religion Promote Violence?
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/speeches/ for complete speech in MS Word file Don’t blame religion for violence: expert Media Release, Wednesday 17 May 2006 The myth that religion causes violence creates a blind spot about secular violence perpetrated by Western nations and other groups, according to a leading US theologian speaking at the University of Melbourne this week. Dr […]
Barnabas Fund Prayer Focus Update
Prayer Focus Update September 2007 Issue 131 PRAYER FOCUS UPDATE is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information and for inclusion in church magazines. It can be sent via email, is […]
The Dawkins Delusion
The Dawkins Delusion by tothesource Alister McGrath is both a scientist and a theologian, and he is not at all impressed with the arguments of atheist Richard Dawkins. In McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion?, he demonstrates that atheists can be fundamentalists too. ************************************************************** September 5, 2007 tothesource: In your The Dawkins Delusion? you take atheist Richard […]
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