Rowland Croucher
The Christian Minority in Iraq
Iraq’s Christian Minority Continues to Flee Violence By Ravi Nessman Associated Press Writer Mon, May. 07 2007 09:34 AM ET BAGHDAD (AP) – Despite the chaos and sectarian violence raging across Baghdad, Farouq Mansour felt relatively safe as a Christian living in a multiethnic neighborhood in the capital. Iraqi Christians attend a church service in […]
Youth Culture
How to Respond to Rapidly Changing Youth Culture By Christian Post Reporter Thu, May. 10 2007 08:32 AM ET Most Americans are immersed in the influence of media but when it surrounds people 24/7, they usually start to forget it’s there, a Christian author said. And the most targeted market demographic in the world is […]
Serbia: Wahhabi activism in Sandzak
Sandzak (Raska) region in southwestern Serbia is for Islamic imperialists and jihadists highly desirable and enormously strategic territory. Wahhabi infiltration, radicalisation and agitation have escalated over the past decade. On several occasions during 2006 Wahhabi activism and aggression targeting the region’s local non-Wahhabi Muslims culminated in violent clashes. Newfound evidence that Wahhabi jihadists in Sandzak’s […]
The Media: a prayer
Poet/performance artist, Cameron Semmens, has written this delightful piece: a current-er prayer Our media, whose art is manipulation hollow be thy game. Thy cameras come, it will be done on Nine as it is on Seven. Give us this day our daily sensation, and feed us our fears as we feed the fear of others. […]
Bigotry
The headmistress at a girls’ prep school in the old South (circa 1959) calls down to the army base and speaks with one of the officers: “We’re having a social here at school and I was wondering if you could send some of your nice young men to attend.” “Why of course,” the Lieutenant answers. […]
Gospel of Bondage
Bruce Cockburn is “Gospel of Bondage” … Tabloids, bellowing raw delight hail the return of the Teutonic Knights inbred for purity and spoiling for a fight, another little puppet of the New Right. See-through dollars and mystery plagues, varied detritus of Aquarian Age. Shutters on storefronts and shutters in the mind — we kill ourselves […]
Questions about healing
A friend wrote: My wife has cancer. Is anointing with oil and praying to heal someone valid today (James 5:14-15)? My response: Yes… Friend: Assuming it is valid should she stop chemo treatments and rely on the elders anointing her with oil and praying for healing? Me: No… God uses many means to heal… the […]
Outreach Resources
[Here’s a conservative evangelical list of good recent resources (you’ll notice that nothing of progressive evangelical Brian McLaren’s is mentioned… Rowland]. You loved them, we loved them. Now it?s time to give these outstanding resources of 2006 another look and a round of applause. By Tamara Rice Nothing feels better to us, as editors of […]
Aboriginal Health
AUSTRALIA WORST IN THE WORLD FOR INDIGENOUS HEALTH The health of Aborigines lags almost 100 years behind other Australians and they are the sickest indigenous people of all the wealthy nations, a report by the World Health Organisation says. The report into indigenous health worldwide found Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders had significantly worse results […]
Interview with John Stott
John Stott reflects on where we’ve been and where we’re going. Interview by Tim Stafford | posted 10/13/2006 09:10AM In 2004, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that if evangelicals chose a pope, they would likely select John Stott. Stott, 85, has been at the heart of evangelical renewal in the U.K. His books […]
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