Rowland Croucher
Mensa
Mensa is an organization whose members have an IQ of 140 or higher. A few years ago, there was a Mensa convention in San Francisco, and several members lunched at a local cafe. While dining, they discovered that their salt shaker contained pepper and their pepper shaker was full of salt. How could they swap […]
Thankis for your emails
My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this past year… I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat poo in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top […]
Church Irrelevant
Obviously, rival Sunday attractions also hastened the process of change, but by the end of the century the Church of England had largely become a “members only” organisation. Go to any parish church and the notices (“See Sue for tickets”, “Tell Pamela if you can help”) indicate that everyone knows everyone and newcomers are not […]
Church Attendance – optional
30% of Australian Christians See Attending Church As Optional Reverend Dr. Phillip Hughes, the Senior Research Officer at the Christian Research Association, told Christian Today Australia that over 30 percent of Australian Christians do not see it as necessary to go to church every Sunday even though they identified themselves as Christian. By: Christian Today […]
Muslim Brotherhood in North America
A friend sent me the composite of reports attached to this e-mail which refers to an important US case involving the ‘Holy Land Foundation’, currently being pursued in Dallas, Texas. Of special interest is a strategic planning document or ‘Explanatory Memorandum’ distributed in 1991 to the governing Council (Shura) of the Muslim Brotherhood in the […]
Rwanda
RWANDA’S JOURNEY (from a friend, John Steward) Choices on the way to peace How is Rwanda? If you read only the international media or watch the movies still focused on the terrible genocide of 1994, we could be forgiven for imagining that Rwanda wallows in its woeful past, with little to anticipate for the future. […]
The Evolution of Creationism
Victor J. Stenger The species of religious thought called creationism continues to evolve by a process of natural selection. While, as National Center for Science Education executive director Eugenie Scott has pointed out, there has always been a continuum of creationist views from extreme to moderate, we can still identify a few dominant strains. Let […]
Koalas in the Ark?
From my liberal friend Mark: Koalas They live only in Australia. Their diet is so restricted–to a few subspecies of eucalyptus–that they’re threatened now by destruction of the only kinds of trees they will eat. It’s also hard to imagine them migrating. Over many generations they might slowly spread through an area–but travelers, they ain’t. […]
None of that Nun
(This joke will not develop how you think it will 🙂 A soldier ran up to a nun. Out of breath he asked, ‘Please, may I hide under your skirt. I’ll explain later.’ The nun agreed. A moment later two Military Police ran up and asked, ‘Sister, have you seen a soldier?’ The nun replied, […]
Hamster and Parrot
A man went into a bar and said to the bartender, “If you give me free drinks all night, I will entertain your customers so much they will stay all night and drink lots and lots.” “Oh yes,” says the bartender. “How are you going to do that?” The man gets a hamster out of […]
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