Rowland Croucher
Chasing Down a Rumour: The Death of Mainline Denominations
Robert Bacher and Kenneth Inskeep Augsburg Books 2005 Here’s one for those of you fed up with trendy, post-denominationalist doom merchants. This book purports to show that, while mainline Protestantism has fallen on hard times, the glass is half full rather than half empty. The American denominations labelled mainline, the authors say, were once “up […]
Persecuted Christians
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 ================================================= 4 June 2007 AZERBAIJAN: ARRESTED BAPTIST PASTOR TO FACE THREE YEARS IN PRISON? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=968 Police have verbally told members of the embattled […]
American Shia
June 10, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Be careful what you pick up to read for diversion because it may take you down a difficult road to an unpleasant place. That was my experience with The March by E.L. Doctorow, the peerless American writer of historical fiction. I bought the book when it came out […]
Long Before Lazarus
June 10, 2007 By Harry T. Cook I Kings 17: 17-24 & Luke 7: 11-17 Lazarus. The name is synonymous with the reanimation of dead tissue – to put it bluntly. The “raising of Lazarus” episode immediately precedes Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as John told the story in chapter 11 of the gospel named for […]
What is ‘sexual orientation’?
From a friend: June 4, 2007 The U.S. Congress is considering three pieces of legislation that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by adding “sexual orientation” as a new special rights protected class. This week Congress is hearing the second piece of legislation adding “sexual orientation” for federal employees to the Code in […]
Jesus, The Way
A sermon on John 14:6 by Nathan Nettleton, 28 April 2002 It used to be common to hear talk of the Australian ‘cultural cringe’. Cultural cringe is the feeling that although we are comfortable living our way, we’d be a bit embarrassed to have our way held up for comparison to other ways, because we’re […]
Morality and Politics
ACNS 4279 | LAMBETH | 24 APRIL 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury – moral vision should be at the heart of politics In his lecture this evening in Hull, birthplace of William Wilberforce, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will urge politicians to rediscover the moral energy and vision which inspired Wilberforce; defend the right […]
Fisherman
=========================== TODAYS RIDDLE : Decipher the following rebus: GOT GOT GOT GOT HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES HEROES /\ x x x x x Scroll down for the answer x x x x x Here it comes x x x x x \/ Forgotten Heroes! Four “got” ten “heroes” =========================== Jim […]
The White-anting Of Christian Culture
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER THE WHITE-ANTING OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE By Dr Patrick Sookhdeo International Director of Barnabas Fund The story is told of an Australian who came home one day to find his house had collapsed and little remained but a pile of dust and rubble. Unknown to him, white ants had been eating away […]
Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy
by Stephen Leahy June 02, 2007 BROOKLIN, Canada, May 29 (IPS) – Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. […]
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