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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Brethren – Rowland Croucher on Radio

On October 31, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

See http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ark/default.htm for an ABC Radio National program this week where I’m interviewed on the relationship between the ‘Exclusive’ and ‘Open’ Brethren — — Shalom! Rowland Croucher

John Mark Ministries Website statistics October 2006

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It’s interesting to note how many visit what articles on this site. Here are the stats for October 1-30, 2006. I’ve annotated where 700+ unique visitors have landed… Rowland See http://jmm.org.au/awstats/awstats.pl for more information about our site than you ever thought you needed! My sincere thanks to our Webcrew (http://jmm.org.au/articles/11834.htm ) for their wonderful help. […]

30 October 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio

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Today’s Headlines: NICARAGUA’S GOVERNMENT VOTES TO BAN ABORTIONS NATIONWIDE WORLD VISION QUAKE RELIEF RECEIVES AWARD FROM PAKISTAN OFFICIALS PRESSURE CONVERT TO FRAME PASTOR IN CENTRAL INDIA 100,000 EASY-TO-READ BIBLES HEADED THROUGH CUBA’S OPEN DOOR Defending the Christian faith is the focus of a series of programs from HCJB World Radio-Australia this week, featuring guests from […]

Spong on Advent

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Note: as you’ll note from other articles by/about Spong on this website, his views and mine do not always coincide! Rowland. ~~~ “During the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons a form of worship known as “The Festival of Lessons and Carols” usually finds its way into the liturgies of our various churches. There are many […]

Why is the Universe just right for human life?

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Not too hot Not too cold Why is the Universe just right for human life? Alastair McKay talks to Astrobiologist Paul Davies TO explain the question he is posing, Paul Davies likes to talk about turtles. He has an anecdote which is attributed to both Bertrand Russell and the 19th century philosopher William James, concerning […]

Brethren (Roger Shuff)

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Roger Shuff’s Searching for the True Church: Brethren and Evangelicals in Mid-Twentieth-Century England (Paternoster, 2005) Argues that Brethren decline since WW2 attributable to a policy of introspection amid rapid social change, resurgence of pandenominational evangelicalism, nonrealisation of an imminent parousia, and a tradition of local church autonomy. I would add, re Australia, a lack of […]

27 October 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio

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Today’s Headlines: 35 ARRESTED AT BIBLE CLASS, INCLUDING KOREAN-AMERICAN PASTOR ‘LOST JEWISH TRIBE’ IN INDIA RETURNS TO ISRAEL AFTER 27 CENTURIES SUDAN’S DARFUR REGION VOTED ‘MOST DANGEROUS FOR CHILDREN’ MINNEAPOLIS A CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS ONGOING POLITICAL UNREST SLOWS MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN NEPAL Defending the Christian faith is the focus of a series of […]

Multiculturalism

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28th October 2006 THE PAINFUL LESSONS OF MULTICULTURALISM By Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester in England (Editors comments: This article written by an English Anglican Bishop draws on the experience of Britain. We reproduce it as the lessons learnt, and points the writer makes, are pertinent to our current situation here in Australia. Let us […]

Fundamentalism

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I have suggested that Fundamentalism is demonic. …Tillich (one of the theological triumvirate of the twentieth century) makes the same allegation on the first page of his magnum opus … Fundamentalists “confuse eternal truth with a temporal expression of the truth. … the theological truth of yesterday is defended as an unchangeable message against the […]

A Modern Example of Jewish Legalism

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Anger as rabbis demand boy be recircumcised Barney Zwartz October 27, 2006 A BOY on the verge of his bar mitzvah was told he was not properly circumcised and therefore was not Jewish. Orthodox rabbis in Sydney said he had to be recircumcised within four days or the ceremony – which marks the transition of […]

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