Rowland Croucher
Australia: Renewal and Unity
From a friend: ‘I am attaching a speech by Lieutenant General John Sanderson, AC, former governor of Western Australia. The speech was delivered last Saturday 26 February to the Order of Australia Association as their annual oration. The speech is titled “FEDERAL RENEWAL AND UNITY IN RECONCILIATION: A RETURN TO GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE”. This […]
Theorem: a cat has nine tails
Theorem: a cat has nine tails. Proof: No cat has eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat. Therefore, a cat has nine tails.
How to Stay Married
A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or […]
Don’t Give Up!
Christian History, Winter 2007 TURNING POINT “You have not labored in vain” After a crushing political defeat, William Wilberforce nearly gave up his fight to abolish the slave trade. But a life-changing letter from John Newton sent this Daniel back into the lion’s den. by Kevin Belmonte from issue 93: St. Benedict & Western Monasticism […]
What’s the Point of Worship?
During the Season of Lent, for the next three weeks, I’ll focus my e-mail messages on worship as the central art of church. What’s the Point of Worship? Frankly, I just don’t get much out of the Sunday morning thing. A lot of the time, I like the music, particularly when it’s contemporary. But there […]
Baptists, Biblicists, and Beyond
Sightings 2/26/07 — Martin E. Marty “Myths of the Baptists” is the mis-worded headline above a story reporting from across the Atlantic that does not treat all Baptists, and that also deals with more than just Baptists. John Whale of the Church Times and the Sunday Times reviews Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout’s survey-rich study […]
Mega-church downsizes, cuts non-essential members
Mega-church downsizes, cuts non-essential members WINSTON-SALEM — Julie and Bob Clark were stunned to receive a letter from their church in July asking them to “participate in the life of the church” — or worship elsewhere. “They basically called us freeloaders,” says Julie. “We were freeloaders,” says Bob. In a trend that may signal rough […]
The Latest from the Archbishop of Canterbury
26 FEBRUARY 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury: Presidential Address at General Synod After the debates at the American General Convention last summer, I wrote directly to all the primates of the Communion to ask about their reaction and the likely reaction of their provinces as to whether the resolutions of Convention had met the proposals of […]
I Give Up; I Don’t Know
The Rev. Dr. Daniel P. Matthews A young American was eager to search for the spiritual truths of the world and had heard of a holy man in the Far East. He journeyed there and climbed up the steep mountain to the cave where the holy man lived. He sat outside the cave for an […]
Jesus’ Tomb?
The claim of James Cameron and the Discovery Channel that a tomb contains the bones of Jesus is bogus, said leading Biblical and archeological scholars today. Unfortunately, this is a story full of holes, conjectures and problems, said Dr. Ben Witherington, author of What Have They Done With Jesus? and New Testament professor at Asbury […]
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