Rowland Croucher
A Great Story That Should Only Happen
Nov. 26, 2006 By Harry T. Cook Mark 1: 1-11 We’ll hear this story of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem again at the Blessing of the Palms next spring. It is the opening scene of the drama called “Holy Week,” which crescendos on Good Friday and comes to a surprisingly lower-key climax three days later […]
Bulgaria; Kazakhstan; Turkey
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 22 November 2006 BULGARIA: AHMADIS BARRED “BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE RELIGIONS THAT PEOPLE FOLLOW HERE” http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=874 Bulgaria’s small Ahmadi Muslim community is […]
Extremism in the Middle East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWIK8YTZS8 (Note from Rowland: I haven’t been able to verify the authenticity of this… Anyone have any information? November 27, 2006)
Muslim violence closes hundreds of Thai schools
November 26, 2006 Hundreds of schools in Thailand’s restive south will shut their doors in response to increasingly vicious attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents against teachers and schools, an official said on Saturday. The closure, which begins Monday, affects all 336 primary and secondary schools in the province of Pattani, where two teachers were fatally […]
Islamic fears kill off children’s thriller
Murray Waldren and Jodie Minus November 25, 2006 A LEADING children’s publisher has dumped a novel because of political sensitivity over Islamic issues. Scholastic Australia pulled the plug on the Army of the Pure after booksellers and librarians said they would not stock the adventure thriller for younger readers because the “baddie” was a Muslim […]
Politically Correct Christmas
http://www.ecunet.org/eculaugh.html Note #9481 from MARK T ENGLISH to ECULAUGH: JESUS & THE ELVES And Joseph went up from Galilee to Bethlehem with Mary, his espoused wife, who was great with child. And she brought forth a son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for […]
A Different Perspective on Climate Change
Hi Rowland, Thought you might find this interesting, given the articles on your website. Certainly a different perspective to what you read in the newspapers, from the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT . However, let me add as a precursor that if the current hype around Global Warming is just that, […]
Obscene subsidies must end
Simon McKeon November 17, 2006 Poverty in Africa, where US policy keeps cotton prices 20 per cent lower than they should be. I AM glad it is not my job to tell a fifth generation American cotton farmer that, from a world perspective, he is hopelessly uncompetitive, and that there is no justification for his […]
Jesus And The Identity Of God (N T Wright)
< Return to part 1 What are we therefore saying about the earthly Jesus? In Jesus himself, I suggest we see the biblical portrait of YHWH come to life: the loving God, rolling up his sleeves (Isa 52:10) to do in person the job that no one else could do, the creator God giving new […]
Religion’s Critics Have a Point
Nov. 26, 2006 By Harry T. Cook The gauntlet has been flung in the tiresome battle between traditional religion and science. Oxford’s Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist whose credentials are unassailable, threw it down with the publication of his The God Delusion – a work that has been criticized for being too barbed and hyper-critical […]
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