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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries
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Politics and the Religious Right

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Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy Ross Douthat Copyright (c) 2006 First Things 165 (August/September 2006): 23-30. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips Viking, 480 pages, $26.95 The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us by James Rudin Thunder’s […]

Healing: another response

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Friend [1]: I had a conversation with a minister in our town the other day about healing which really annoyed me. Her understanding of the Bible’s teaching was along the lines of: 1.. All sickness if of the devil 2.. Jesus is stronger than the devil 3.. Therefore all sickness should get healed Orthodox Church […]

Handling Toxic Emotions

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Peter J Frost. Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School, 2003. Peter Frost suggests that emotional pain is unavoidable at work, but how organisations respond to pain is critical. He explores how organisations and people handle emotional pain, how it affects performance, and what can be […]

I’m a Mum

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A woman named Emily renewing her driver’s licence at the Transport Office was asked by the clerk to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. “What I mean is,” explained the clerk, “do you have a job, or are you just a … ? “Of course I have a job,” snapped Emily. […]

Faith & Politics (Kevin Rudd)

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4 October 2006 Kevin Rudd: Bonhoeffer and ‘the political orchestration of organised Christianity’ This week Labor frontbencher Kevin Rudd has published a piece on Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Monthly magazine. Or rather, Bonhoeffer is the starting point for an essay on the rightful role of churches in politics. Transcript This transcript was typed from a […]

A Bird’s Eye view of Corinth

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For those addicted to including images in worship, particularly when you have a reading from Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians A site I browse http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_index.php3 Images of the earth from Satellite http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17418 Corinth Canal, Greece For centuries, mariners had to travel an extra 340 kilometers (185 nautical miles) between the Gulf of Corinth and the […]

Muslims in Russia

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Russia becoming a Muslim state! Mon, 2006-05-22 01:14 By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Imagine Russia in 2050! According to Paul Goble, a specialist on ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation has predicted that within the next several decades, Russia will become a Muslim majority state. There is another bad news with fast decline in country’s […]

Blondes and Police

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A young man had just graduated from Harvard and was so excited just thinking about his future. He gets into a taxi and the driver says, “How are you on this lovely day?” “I’m the Class of 2001, just graduated from Harvard and I just can’t wait to go out there and see what the […]

5 October 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio

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Today’s Headlines: MICRO-ENTERPRISE ARTISAN CATALOG HELPS PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS CHINA’S STATE-SANCTIONED PROTESTANT CHURCH DEDICATES NEW STUDIO NEW ETHIOPIAN ORPHANAGE, SCHOOL HELPS AREA’S POOREST CHILDREN MISSIONARY, HORSE TRAINER REACHES OUT TO MEXICAN ‘VAQUEROS’ Today’s Top Stories: The Iranian couple arrested on Tuesday, Sept. 26, was released on bail this morning and reunited with their 6-year-old daughter. Reza […]

Palestinians and the U. S.

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Abbas dupes US: “Recognition” is functional, not inherent by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook “Abbas: Hamas must recognize Israel,” announced the headline on the lead story in today’s Jerusalem Post. The article went on to report that “PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas vowed to fire the Hamas-led government before the end of the month unless… they […]

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