Rowland Croucher
50 Books that Church Leaders Should Read
50 Books that Church Leaders Should Read (January 2007) ¨ Listed in alphabetical order by author, not priority! ¨ Apologies to several quality authors who probably should be in this list but either I haven’t read their work or I forgot it when it came to writing this list ¨ I have resisted the urge […]
Some Questions
Here are a few things to think about that you probably have never thought about and will never think about again; Can you cry under water? How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why do you have to “put your two cents in”.. . but […]
Jesus’ Second Coming (Tom Wright)
It would seem that in your view, early Christians had the expectation for the Lord’s return in his generation and the expectation of the imminent coming of the Son of Man in judgment on Jerusalem. It would have been very difficult for the believers in the first century to distinguish these two expectations. On what […]
The Church and its little old ladies
DIVINE WISDOM AMONG “LITTLE OLD LADIES” A few years ago, a friend of mine returned from one of those National Council of Churches trips to the Soviet Union. Two weeks had made her a Soviet expert. When asked about the churches in there, her reply was, “There’s nobody left in the churches except for a […]
Government-Sponsored Ignorance
Jan. 21, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Dateline: Arizona. The National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior continues to offer for sale a book published by a creationist Christian ministry, which says the Grand Canyon was formed less than 6,000 years ago in a divine flood sent to wipe out the wickedness […]
It’s What We’re Here For
Jan. 21, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 4: 14-21 The Episcopal Church in the United States of America, as a British friend of mine would say, has its knickers in a twist over what the Bible says about this and that, what correct belief is, etc., etc. Dozens of parishes are forsaking their bishops […]
Police Car
A police car pulls up in front of grandma Bessie’s house, and grandpa Morris gets out. The polite policeman explained that this elderly gentleman said that he was lost in the park and couldn’t find his way home. “Oh Morris”, said grandma, “You’ve been going to that park for over 30 years! How could you […]
The Passion of Pan’s Labyrinth
Sightings 1/18/07 The Passion of “Pan’s Labyrinth” — Jennifer Schuberth “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro’s fantastical allegorical film about fascists in 1944 Spain, has been hailed as one of the best movies of the year — “movingly honest”; “a one-of-a-kind nightmare that has a soaring, spiritual center”; and a film in which “violence is used […]
Religion of mass distraction
Monday, January 22, 2007 The board chair of Sojourners/Call to Renewal on the religion of division I was recently interviewed by a “secular” journalist who had read some of my books. He said, “Your religion doesn’t seem to keep you constantly dividing the world into us and them, in and out, good and bad. Is […]
World Moving Closer to Nuclear Doom
Atomic Scientists Warn World Moving Closer to Nuclear Doom By Stephanie Ho Washington 17 January 2007 An international group of atomic scientists is warning of the dual threats to the world posed by nuclear weapons and climate change. VOA’s Stephanie Ho reports from Washington. Kennette Benedict, right, executive director of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, […]
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