Rowland Croucher
April Fools
A small paperboy is standing on the corner of the street, yelling out headlines: “35 people fooled! 35 people fooled!” A man comes up and buys a paper. After looking through the pages, he says: “There’s nothing in here about people being fooled!” The boy continues to yell: “36 people fooled! 36 people fooled!”
Ponderisms
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a […]
Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? [2]
From a knowledgeable netfriend (you’ll figure out his comments as distinct from the original): March 27, 2007 Can You Pass the Religious Literacy Test? Dr. James Emery White Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department of Boston University, has written a new book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn t. […]
Huston Smith: The Soul of Christianity
Huston Smith: The Soul of Christianity, HarperSanFrancisco 2005. Huston Smith, son of Methodist missionaries in China, friend of Thomas Merton and Joseph Campbell, teacher and friend of Marcus Borg, wrote this book in 2004, and says it was ‘the most exciting year of my writing’. His parents’ first child, whom he never knew, died in […]
The Pope’s Apology
Here’s an interesting quote/generalization I read again this morning, in comparative religion expert Dr Huston Smith’s book ‘The Soul of Christianity’ (HarperSanFrancisco 2005, p. 137): ‘Though divine in origin, the [Christian] Church is made up of humans, of sinners, and so *in an act unique for any institution* (my emphasis), at the end of the […]
Baptizing Children?
I wrote: Let’s take the biblical precedent/situation of a hostile environment seriously when judging whether a person is making a valid, personal decision about baptism. Would their personal commitment to Christ pass the test of opposition from others, or even persecution? Whilst it’s difficult to replicate the apostolic context in this respect, we must take […]
Classic boozing quotes
Classic boozing quotes: “Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams If I didn’t drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams would be […]
Domestic violence and alcohol
Domestic violence This is sad. A Port Augusta cleric says domestic violence has increased since public drinking was banned 15 months ago. David Wright, Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, says agencies are finding it harder to help people because alcohol-related problems have been pushed indoors. March 2007
Women priests
Leadership: Amen To Women http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/20/katharine-schori-episcopalian-lead_cz_ch_0321pink.html http://tinyurl.com/ynvrms Cecile S. Holmes, PINK 03.21.07, 6:00 AM ET Katharine Jefferts Schori — oceanographer, instrument-rated pilot and Episcopal bishop — remembers the evening in 2000 when it seemed she might be reaching the zenith of her short ecclesiastical career. After spending the day in a diocesan committee meeting along Oregon’s […]
Good to Great
Good to Great | Practical Theology Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough As part of a postgraduate degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, I recently participated in seminars on “Understanding Organizational Dynamics”. I found a general ambivalence among postgraduate students with regard to applying business methods and insights to the Church. The observations which follow — all […]
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