Rowland Croucher
Escape From the Tomb (Jn. 20:1-18)
by Barbara Brown Taylor When I was a girl, I spent a lot of time in the woods, which were full of treasures for me. At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — […]
Life-Giving Fear
by Barbara Brown Taylor When I was a hospital chaplain, the calls I dreaded most did not come from the emergency room, the psychiatric ward or even the morgue. They came from the pediatric floor, where little babies lay in cribs with bandages covering half their heads and sweet-faced children pushed IV poles down the […]
The Wise Men
Off By Nine Miles (Isaiah 60:1-7; Matthew 2:1-12) by Walter Brueggemann Matthew is not the first one to imagine three rich wise guys from the East coming to Jerusalem. His story line and plot come from Isaiah 60, a poem recited to Jews in Jerusalem about 580 B.C.E. These Jews had been in exile in […]
Lent
by Thomas G. Long On the day after Christmas, my family and I moved from New Jersey to Georgia. In order to set up housekeeping as swiftly and smoothly as possible, we had carefully marked the packing boxes holding our more urgently needed belongings with such labels as “coffee maker!!!” “linens,” “clock radio” and “kitchen […]
Interesting Questions (more)
Interesting Questions a.. Atheism is a non-prophet organization? b.. If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him… is he still wrong? c.. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? d.. Is there another word […]
Suggestions for school-leavers’ prank
What’s a good senior prank me and my friends could do? Plant marijuana seeds in the principal’s yard. Graduation will be over by the time anything surfaces. You could raise a pirate flag somewhere, cement a toilet bowl somewhere in the school, get 2006 toothpicks or plastic forks and spend the night stabbing them into […]
The Pauline Watermark, by Tom Scaugh
The book “The Pauline Watermark”, by Tom Scaugh, was recently published in the USA under a Creative Commons license. This means that it may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, as it is here. The book is available through http://books.lulu.com/content/709526 at US$19.95. It is expected that significant discounts will be available through amazon.com and Barnes & […]
International News 12th March 2007
INTERNATIONAL NEWS 12th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * TO OBEY GOD OR MAN – CHRISTIAN MAGISTRATE CHOOSES TO OBEY GOD AND LOOSES HIS JOB * CHRISTIANS BATTLE SATANISTS IN INDIA * CHARLES WANTS A MULTI-FAITH CORONATION * SPIRITUAL PRIDE LEADING CAUSE OF ABORTIONS AMONGST CHRISTIANS * LARGEST GATHERING OF CHRISTIANS IN KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY […]
Muslims in Western Countries
Hot sermon draws cool response March 12, 2007 12:00am PREMIER Steve Bracks has ridiculed comments by a radical Islamic cleric that blamed global warming on Australians’ lack of faith in God. Sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Melbourne mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster. “The fear of Allah is not […]
Muslims in Western countries (more)
The riots in France during the autumn of 2005, for example, had an essentially socioeconomic origin, but they were also a lashing out by the disaffected against a society that claims to give them equal rights in principle but fails to do so in practice. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=3898842 The presence of Muslims in Western societies is of […]
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