Rowland Croucher
Christian Discipline of Children
Sightings 5/3/07 — Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore At Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, only a short distance from my home, religious leader Gwen Shamblin encourages parents to spank their children, describing corporal punishment as a “time-tested, ancient teaching of the Bible” necessary to shaping adherence to God’s authority. According to the February 7, 2007, issue […]
Slavery
“You can’t take the evil of slavery out of the world and abolish it without making the world more just. You will never prevent people living in bonded labor or from getting caught up in sex trafficking while they are so desperate that they have no other choice but to sell themselves. As long as […]
Armenia; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan
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 ================================================= 2 May 2007 ARMENIA: 72 RELIGIOUS PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE IS NEW RECORD http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=949 Armenia has a record number of religious conscientious objectors […]
What Does Love Mean?
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does […]
Book review: Travesty, by John Laughland
Z Magazine April 2007 Review by Edward S. Herman Review of John Laughland, Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice (London/Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007). John Laughland’s superb new book , Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice, is the fourth important critical study of […]
The Ministry of Fear
*May 6, 2007* *The Ministry of Fear* *By Harry T. Cook* ** A recent family wedding required air travel, and in the process I became reacquainted with the fear factor being deliberately induced in the national psyche to garner support for the much-touted ‘war on terrorism.’ There I was with my wife, a son and […]
Love One Another
*Note from Rowland. Here’s an approach as theologically liberal as one can get, within Western Christendom. I post it here for your information. Note that my broad theological stance does not coincide with Harry Cook’s. * * ~~~ * *May 6, 2007* *//* ** *The Reason, the Point, the Beginning, the End, * *the Why […]
Muslim Conversions to Christianity
ISLAM IN EASTERN LANDS LOSES MILLIONS: Record Number of Ex-Muslims celebrated Christmas last Year. More Muslims converted to faith in Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any other time in human history. A spiritual revolution is underway throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. As a result, a record number of […]
International News 7th May 2007
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * INDIAN VILLAGERS FORCED TO BOW TO HINDU DEITIES * THE FORGOTTEN CHRISTIANS OF LEBANON * MEXICO CITY LAWMAKERS PASS ABORTION BILL * NIGERIA: NORTHERN CHRISTIANS WARY OF NEW MUSLIM PRESIDENT * BRITISH ANGLICAN AND CATHOLIC LEADERS REFUTE ATTEMPTS TO MUZZLE CHRISTIANITY * ATHEIST AND CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS CLASH OVER WHETHER FAITH […]
Out of the Echo Chamber (Brian McLaren)
Out of the Echo Chamber From Brian McLaren As many of you will know from my website (brianmclaren.net), my recent contribution to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope , and my speaking, I’ve been traveling like crazy over the last couple of years, especially this last year during which nearly all the pages in my passport […]
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