Rowland Croucher
Jerry Falwell dies
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Jerry Falwell’s Legacy Usually words about those recently passed are whitewashed to extol every virtue and ignore every vice, but Jerry Falwell’s position and life demand as honest an examination as possible. Three Sundays ago Jerry Falwell stood up in from of Thomas Road Baptist Church and gave a sermon entitled, […]
The Anglican Communion
ACNS 4284 | SOUTH AFRICA | 15 MAY 2007 The Most Revd Njongonkulu Ndungane Speech at Bishop’s Forum – in Cape Town I have been invited by Bishop Garth and members of Chapter to reflect on the state of affairs within the Anglican Communion. I shall start by addressing three points – the nature of […]
Vietnam jails its ‘extremists’
Subj: Vietnam jails its “extremists” VIETNAM CONDEMNS AND JAILS ITS “EXTREMISTS” On Friday 11 May, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced Christian religious liberty advocate and human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai (38) to five years imprisonment to be followed by four years of house arrest. Dai’s colleague, lawyer Le Thi Cong Nhan (28), was sentenced […]
$20 dollar bill
There was this $20 dollar bill and a $1 dollar bill on the conveyor belt at the downtown Federal Reserve Building. As they were laying there side by side the $1 dollar bill said to the $20 dollar bill, “Hey mannnnnn, where have you been. I haven’t seen you in a long time ?” The […]
F W Boreham – Public Theologian
*F. W. Boreham: The Public Theologian*** * © Geoff Pound * /Geoff Pound is Principal of Whitley College, The Baptist College of Victoria and secretary of the BWA Heritage and Identity Commission. A former New Zealander, he is also Director of Leadership Training for the Baptist Union of Victoria./ *My Interest* I came to be interested […]
Jesus the Name High over All
/**The hymn John Stott has chosen to be sung at his funeral: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 ** **/ 1.Jesus! the name high over all, in hell or earth or sky; angels and mortals prostrate fall, and devils fear and fly. 2.Jesus! the name to sinners dear, the name to sinners given; it scatters all their guilty […]
The Universe
There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. -C.S. Lewis
Thoughts on The Jesus Enterprise
I’m concerned about a book about the church that uses the word enterprise in the title, a word borrowed from business. But I sure want to reach the unchurched. Thus I read The Jesus Enterprise: Engaging Culture to Reach the Unchurched (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004), by Kent R. Hunter. Here are some quotes from the […]
Thomas Friedman
Tony Jones speaks to columnist Thomas L Friedman Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 01/05/2007 Reporter: Tony Jones Tony Jones talks to columnist and author Thomas L Friedman about the major changes facing the world. Transcript TONY JONES: Now to our guest and as you saw earlier, Thomas Friedman is a passionate advocate for climate change solutions. […]
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Two lonely figures traverse a ruined, anarchic, desolate America where few survivors remain after a cataclysmic event that causes the cities to burn and turns the air into ash. A father and his young son are travelling on foot, scavenging food and with only a pistol as protection, they try desperately to reach the coast […]
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