Rowland Croucher
Where do churches get all the ashes?
Where do churches get all the ashes? http://tinyurl.com/2v792l By Francisco Vara-Orta Los Angeles Times Wednesday, February 21, 2007 – Page updated at 12:00 AM LOS ANGELES – Some churches abandoned the practice because of the fire danger. Some responded to air-quality laws. At Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, a parishioner who for years made […]
Two beers
A man went into a bar and ordered two beers. He sat and drank them both at the bar in quick succession. The next day the same sequence of events transpired. The barman asked, “So how come you order two like that, when there’s only one of you?” The man said, “My brother is serving […]
Mormon for U. S. President?
Sightings 2/19/07 Romney’s Religion — Martin E. Marty We who began “sighting” religion in American public life a half-century ago had to open a file on “religion and presidential candidates” when “Ike” ran against “Adlai.” Presidents Roosevelt and Truman were very religious, but Roosevelt’s form of mainstream Protestantism was seen as inoffensive, and Truman disdained […]
Towards an Anglican Covenant
19 FEBRUARY 2007 Report of the Covenant Design Group The Covenant Design Group, appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of the Primates of the Anglican Communion, held its first meeting in Nassau, the Bahamas, between Monday, 15th and Thursday, 18th January, 2007. The Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Revd Drexel Gomez, […]
Forgiveness
The late comedian Bill Hicks used to say ‘If you don’t like what I say about God, then forgive me…’
International News 19th February 2007
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * STUDY CONFIRMS CHINA FORCED ABORTION POLICY HAS CREATED GENDER IMBALANCE * WEST PAPUAN CHURCH OFFICE OCCUPIED BY INDONESIAN POLICE * THE END OF CHRISTIANITY IN IRAQ? * HOMOSEXUALS MUST CHANGE SAYS ARCHBISHOP * GERMAN CHANCELLOR DETERMINED TO INCLUDE VALUES IN NEW EUROPEAN UNION CONSTITUTION * BOOK CHARACTERS CONVERT TO ISLAM […]
Was Jesus ‘nice’?
Was JESUS “NICE”?? -by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. Sometimes love is sharp, hard-edged, confusing, and seemingly unfair. Some time ago I read the synoptic Gospels with a group of literature students, only a few of whom professed to be “reasonably familiar” with the material in those books. We made our way through the Nativity stories, the […]
Men’s Thesaurus
“IT’S A GUY THING” Translated: “There is no rational thought pattern connected with it, and you have no chance at all of making it logical.” “CAN I HELP WITH DINNER?” Translated: “Why isn’t it already on the table?” “UH HUH,” “SURE, HONEY,” OR “YES, DEAR” Translated: Absolutely nothing. It’s a conditioned response. “IT WOULD TAKE […]
Vietnam persecuting honoured Christian advocate
Subj: Vietnam persecuting honoured Christian advocate —————————————————————————— VIETNAM PERSECUTING HONOURED CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE —————————————————————————— On Tuesday 6 February 2007, Human Rights Watch announced that Vietnamese human rights attorney Nguyen van Dai was one of eight Vietnamese among the 45 writers from 22 countries to be awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant this year. The Hellman/Hammett grants, administered by […]
China; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief 13 February 2007 CHINA: “RELIGIOUS COMMUNISTS” AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=910 Numbers of religious believers in China are, recent surveys indicate, much greater than […]
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