Rowland Croucher
Peacemaking at Pine Gap
Simon Moyle wrote: At dawn on December 9 2005 a group of four Christians, Bryan Law, Adele Goldie, Donna Mulhearn and Jim Dowling conducted a citizens inspection of the Pine Gap Military base near Alice Springs. Calling themselves Christians Against ALL Terrorism, they wanted to bring some moral and intellectual integrity to the terrorism debate […]
False Prophets
From a friend: “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be […]
The Violent Bear It Away
Maundy Thursday Tonight we begin the enactment of a story, Jesus? last hours. I don?t know what most impresses you about the story of the arrest, the trial, the crucifixion of Jesus. What impresses me is its sheer bloodiness, the violence. I pray to God that I?ll never get so hardened of heart, so inoculated […]
Making The Urban Church Work
by Thomas Scarborough Thirteen years ago, I was called from middle-class suburbia to a historical Protestant Church in urban Cape Town. The years since then mark a period in which there have been significant shifts in urban Churches the world over — shifts which have not passed our own Church by. Yet where I sought […]
Easter Basket Surprise
*April 8, 2007* *Easter Basket Surprise* *By Harry T. Cook* Surely it will not happen this year, but there is a good chance that next Easter some children may awake on that blessed morn to find not the clich ©d chocolate bunnies in their plastic grass-lined baskets but replicas in the same flavor of, ahem, Jesus. […]
The Blogs that ate cyberspace
Dan Silkstone April 7, 2007 *I*T HAS been the most extraordinary rise, and it happened while you probably weren’t even looking. In just under a decade, the blog has swamped the virtual world, multiplying at a rate usually seen only inside Petri dishes. Some now say it is poised to deliver a killer blow to […]
Preaching and Easter
‘Our people are hungry for preachers who, like Magdalene, have seen the risen Lord. My darkest moments in homiletics are not when my theology is porous. My darkest moments are when I have ceased to pray – when the familiar phrases fall trippingly from my pen and tongue but it is all rote, prepackaged, with […]
Sermon Preparation
‘It takes me sixty or seventy hours to shape a fifteen-minute homily. But, I assure you, the results outstrip the price; for your people, time and again fresh insight into the mind of Christ, often a burning yearning to listen to the Lord and say yes; for yourself, a continuing education, ever-new experience of the […]
Blogs for Beginners
Dear Rowland Thanks for the invitation to explain for beginners, how I add pictures onto my blog sites but first let me give some background, tell you why I am blogging and what I am discovering about this medium. *Blog #1: Rallying Point and Noticeboard* Since moving to the United Arab Emirates I have been […]
How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? A: 1,331: 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed […]
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