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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

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John Stott: Some Personal Reflections

JOHN STOTT: SOME PERSONAL REFLECTIONS Prompted by reading the two-volume biography of Stott by Timothy Dudley-Smith (IVP 1999, 2001). John Stott (1921- ) is the English-speaking world’s highest-profile and most acclaimed ‘evangelical’. It has been said that if Evangelicals around the world were to elect a Pope, he would be front-runner. Personally he didn’t like […]

John Stott

John Stott (1921 – ) is the world’s most renowned evangelical preacher/teacher (it has been said that if Evangelicals were to elect a Pope, he would be front-runner). Personally he didn’t like the label ‘conservative evangelical’, preferring something like ‘radical conservative evangelical’. John Stott is Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church in London and Director […]

A Bigger and Smaller View of Mission

Books & Culture, May/June 2007 CHRISTIAN VISION PROJECT A Bigger-and Smaller-View of Mission by John G. Stackhouse, Jr. From his base at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, from whence he occasionally looks askance at what’s happening in the neighboring land south of the Canadian border, John Stackhouse defies the notion that there is any […]

The Fog of war – Lebanon and Iraq

Gwynne Dyer The fighting that began in northern Lebanon on May 20 may drag the country back into a civil war, or it may not. It may be the result of a Syrian plot, or it may not. As a rule, if you claim to understand what is going on in Lebanon, you simply reveal […]

Londonistan Calling

This article by Christopher Hitchens discusses the disturbing radicalisation of young Muslims in Britain, suggesting that some kind of a show-down is inevitable: Will Britain become an Islamic society regulated by the shari’a, or will it fight for its right not to become one. Such ‘wake-up’ calls from Europe are becoming increasingly frequent. They can […]

National Day of Thanksgiving: a contrary view

ON LINE opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate The National Day of Thanksgiving: it’s the ‘white fella’ religious right again By Alan Matheson Posted Thursday, 24 May 2007 The National Day of Thanksgiving (NDOT), on May 26, 2007, is “a unique opportunity for Australians to celebrate and give thanks for our God […]

International News

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * PROFILE OF NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY * PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS FACE THREATS * ANOTHER BLACK FRIDAY FOR THE COPTIC CHRISTIANS OF EGYPT * AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ADOPTS PRO-ABORTION POLICY * CELEBRATION 2007 AIMS TO SPREAD THE LOVE OF GOD IN CANADA * A CALL TO PRAY FOR LEBANON ———————————————– PROFILE OF […]

Choosing the Butter

A sermon by Rod Benson at Morling College Chapel, 29 May 2007 2 Kings 2:1-18 One of my favourite French atheist philosophers is a man of about my own age called Michel Onfray. When he was 28, Onfray nearly died of a heart attack brought on, in part, by his love for classic French cuisine. […]

Egypt: keeping the Copts subjugated pf Egypt

Subj: Egypt: keeping the Copts subjugated ———————————— EGYPT: KEEPING THE COPTS SUBJUGATED ———————————— On 11 May, Muslims in the village of Bimha (or Bamha) in Ayat district (around 70 kilometres south Cairo) left their mosques after Friday prayers, armed and zealous for jihad against the indigenous Coptic Christian community and their solitary, partially built church. […]