Rowland Croucher
Islam: a German’s (Psychiatrist’s) View
The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist: a man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism: ‘Very few people […]
April Fools’ Day and the Pope
Sightings – April Fools’ Day Monday | April 1 2013 — Martin E. Marty Look up April Fool ¢â‚¬â„¢s Day or April Fools ¢â‚¬â„¢ day in Wikipedia, no less! and no fooling! and you will relearn that this unofficial holiday is a time when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. (It ¢â‚¬â„¢s also called ¢â‚¬Å“All Fools ¢â‚¬â„¢ […]
The World Community for Christian Meditation
An excerpt from John Main OSB, ¢â‚¬Å“Space to Be, ¢â‚¬ MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 92-93. To know ourselves, to understand ourselves and to . . .get ourselves and our problems in perspective, we simply must make contact with our spirit. All self-understanding arises from understanding ourselves as spiritual beings, and it is […]
Marriage Equality (Keith Mascord)
April 2, 2013 How The Unthinkable Might Become Thinkable For many Christians, the idea that they might ever support same-sex marriage seems unthinkable. The chasm over which they would need to jump appears too wide; the beliefs they would need to jettison too important, the fear they might fall into an irreversible moral relativism too […]
Humo[u]r
A man is being interviewed for a job. ¢â‚¬Å“What are your qualifications for the job of night watchman? ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“The slightest noise wakes me up. ¢â‚¬ ==================== Married couples, both 60 years old, were celebrating their 35th anniversary. During their party, a fairy appeared to congratulate them and grant them each one a wish. The wife wanted […]
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East
In the Middle East, not America, Christians are actually persecuted Jonathan Merritt | Apr 3, 2013 Christians search for belongings after more than 100 homes were torched in Lahore, Pakistan. (ARIF ALI) American Christians have a persecution complex. Whenever a public figure criticizes the Christian movement or offers believers in other faiths an equal voice in society, […]
Clotheslines (and the old solar dryer)
It’s the poem at the end that’s the best!!!Remembering Mom’s Clothesline There is one thing that’s left out. We had a long wooden pole (clothes pole) that was used to push the clotheslines up so that longer items (sheets/pants/etc.) didn’t brush the ground and get dirty. You have to be a “certain age” to […]
When Life Tumbles In – What Then? (A resurrection sermon)
When life Tumbles In What Then? A sermon by Rowland Croucher at St Martins’ Community Church Resurrection Sunday – 31 March 2013 Lectionary Readings: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 65:17-25; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 or Acts 10:34-43, John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12 First I want to pay a tribute to our dear friend Damien Christie whose life we remember with […]
Holy Week & Bach’s Passion (Martin Marty)
Sightings Monday | March 25 2013 Holy Week by Martin E. Marty Forget, for the moment, popes and budgets and March Madness, shall we? This week we dispense with headlines and blogs and releases, unless the latter are three-hundred or three-thousand years old. The week ¢â‚¬â„¢s calendar notifies believers and everyone else of Passover for Jews […]
Good Leaders Cause Trouble
Paul R Smith: Leading Change and Causing Trouble (2011) What institutions do best is defend themselves against change. Churches do it particularly well because they think they are defending God. ¢â‚¬Å“Come weal or woe, we want our status quo. ¢â‚¬ What can we expect of our religious leaders in moving our churches into higher levels? Often, […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,756 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress