Rowland Croucher
Pearls Before Breakfast
From a friend: I’ve just finished reading a great but fairly long article called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” It’s from the Washington Post, about Joshua Bell’s busking trick in the Washington Metro last January. Bell is one of the world’s leading violinists. He spent 45 minutes playing some of the greatest classical violin pieces while over […]
Lessons We Can Learn From Jack Welch
The Cabinet and I have been pondering our role as personnel officers of the church. It is our job to recruit, evaluate, and to place clergy. We believe that there is much that we can learn about personnel matters from those in business or other organizations. Hal Nobel, Superintendent of the Northwest District, has recently […]
The End of Limbo
Sightings 4/30/07 — Martin E. Marty On October 29, 1965, four high hierarchs proposed to their Second Vatican Council colleagues that they might put on the agenda a discussion of the possibility that they should rethink the Catholic Church’s position on birth control. That evening, Albert C. Outler, our profoundly informed fly on the wall […]
Towards a Dictatorship in America, in 10 easy steps
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329789179-110878,00.html From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Naomi Wolf Tuesday April 24, 2007 Guardian Last autumn, there was […]
Democracy
April 29, 2007 Democracy In Action … Or Not By Harry T. Cook ** That great exporter of democracy, George W. Bush, has shown the way. He has shown the way to his petroleum friends in Saudi Arabia. He has shown them how Bush-style democracy works. According to the /New York Times,/ at the urging […]
Where Have All The Prophets Gone?
Here’s the gist of Marvin McMickle’s Where Have All The Prophets Gone? Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America, 2006. It’s black writing-as-preaching at its most passionate, biblically enlightened, and intelligent (he has a couple of earned Drs). When (American) preaching isn’t prophetic you won’t hear anything about the two million persons packed into overcrowded prisons, most […]
For every understanding male
BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL WOMAN IS HERSELF A WOMAN IS LIKE A TEA BAG… YOU DON’T KNOW HOW STRONG SHE IS UNTIL YOU PUT HER IN HOT WATER I HAVE YET TO HEAR A MAN ASK FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO COMBINE MARRIAGE AND A CAREER COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, MEN. SOME THINGS ARE JUST BETTER RICH I’M […]
Honouring the Fallen – A Sermon
From Nathan Nettleton Pastor, South Yarra Community Baptist Church Melbourne, Australia ______________________________________ Honouring the Fallen A sermon on Revelation 7:9-17 & John 10:22-30 by Nathan Nettleton, 29 April 2007 This week, Australia has observed Anzac Day – a day which is increasing described as the most sacred day in our national calendar and the most […]
Prayer for Rain
Soundings No. 56 – 30 April 2007 Prayer for rain and the Prime Minister by Kristine Morrison On 20 April The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported <http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/pm-urges-all-to-pray-for-rain/20 07/04/19/1176697003182.html> the Australian Prime Minister’s call to pray for rain in response to the dire state of the Murray-Darling Basin. This call was endorsed in a media release […]
Cynical Apologetics
From a cynical friend: How to be a Bible Apologist Step One: Accept the divine, absolute, and literal truth of the Bible. Step Two: Redefine “literal” when needed. Step Three: Learn to believe two or more contradictory ideas simultaneously Heinlein said it so well: “Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion […]
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