Rowland Croucher
Climate Change
(Sorry for formatting. Rowland). INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE IPCC Secretariat, c/o WMO, 7bis, Avenue de la Paix, C.P. N ° 2300, 1211 Geneva 2, SWITZERLAND Website: http://www.ipcc.ch Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change This […]
Things we want to know
Do penguins have knees? In libraries, do they put the bible in the fiction or non-fiction section? Does a two-humped camel store more water than a one-humped camel? If you pamper a cow, do you get spoiled milk? Can you cry underwater? If an African elephant comes to America, is it an African-American elephant? Why […]
Australia’s Foreign Aid
We are not living up to our modest aid promise Tim Costello The Age, March 8, 2007 We have produced leaders in business, academia and sport. We were one of the first nations to give women the vote, as well as the right to be elected to Parliament. Australia also broke new ground by introducing […]
Vietnam: Christian advocate, Nguyen Van Dai, arrested
Subj: Vietnam: Christian advocate, Nguyen Van Dai, arrested COURAGEOUS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NGUYEN VAN DAI, PERSECUTED Nguyen Van Dai is one of Vietnam’s few practising human rights lawyers and a founder of the Committee for Human Rights in Vietnam. As noted by Human Rights Watch (HRW) the persecution of Nguyen Van Dai commenced in August 2006 […]
Shortest poem
The shortest poem in the English language consists of only two words, “I, why?”‘ John Claypool is among the best half-dozen contemporary ‘writing preachers’ in the English language. Here’s something for Lent – http://jmm.org.au/articles/2855.htm to which a friend responded: The second shortest is: “For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” By E Hemingway Hi,I saw […]
Appeasing Radical Islam
Appeasement Is No Solution The weekend talkfest in Canberra designed to smooth over Muslim and non-Muslim differences is now history. The gathering was meant, in part, to help Muslims integrate better into Australian society, and help non-Muslims more readily welcome them, by getting to know them better. Whether the get-together will achieve such purposes rermains […]
Hi-tech sermons
Posted on Thu, Mar. 08, 2007 email this print this reprint or license this Pastors go high-tech with sermons By Rebecca Rosen Lum CONTRA COSTA TIMES Bob Larson/Contra Costa Times The Walnut Creek Persbyterian Church incorporates artwork, clips of classic films, and videos of charity work in action. A laptop in the pulpit cannot replace […]
Evangelical Morality
Tuesday, March 06, 2007 Jim Wallis: Dr. Dobson, Let’s Have a Real Debate James Dobson’s letter attacking Rich Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals has caused a firestorm, and maybe the beginning of a really good dialogue. Brian McLaren’s post yesterday [below] pointed out that the letter from Dobson and friends actually acknowledged that […]
Korean Christianity
How Korea embraced Christianity Former missionaries look back at a nation that’s now the No. 2 source of Christian mission workers. By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor While Christianity’s explosive growth has swept through much of the Southern Hemisphere – particularly across Africa – another dramatic story has unfolded in […]
A Presidential Apology?
Sightings 3/8/07 A Presidential Apology? — Daniel Malotky President Bush has acknowledged on several occasions that mistakes have been made in Iraq. His statements, however, have been framed to present him as a strong leader who is willing to take responsibility for his actions. None of his public remarks has constituted an apology, and he […]
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