Rowland Croucher
26 September 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: CHINESE CHRISTIAN WINS APPEAL, COURT REVOKES PREVIOUS CHARGES INDIA’S DALITS FACE FLOOD RELIEF DISCRIMINATION AFTER MONSOONS ERITREAN GOVERNMENT SEIZES PROTESTANT CHURCH ASSETS, PROPERTY HARD-LINE MUSLIMS ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN CHURCH IN WEST JAVA OPERATION BLESSING INDIA SETS NEW MONTHLY MEDICAL PATIENT RECORD Today’s Top Stories: CHINESE CHRISTIAN WINS APPEAL, COURT REVOKES PREVIOUS CHARGES […]
Pastor’s Resignation: when?
When It’s Time to Leave July 1, 2002 A pastor is wise to wrestle with the leave-decision on an annual basis—a few days budgeted for self-examination, for seeking the insight of reliable counselors. In February 1999, I made a leave-decision. I informed the congregation I served, Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts, that in five months […]
Hair
A young boy had just gotten his driver’s permit and enquired of his father, if they could discuss his use of the car. His father said, “I’ll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up from a C to a B average, study your Bible a little, get your hair cut and we’ll […]
Does God Exist?
“Noted philosopher and legal scholar Mortimer Adler was the co-editor of The Great Books of the Western World, a fifty-five volume series published by Encyclopedia Britannica several years ago. The idea was to marshall the eminent thinkers of the western world and their writings on the most important ideas that have been studied and investigated […]
Turning the other cheek (another)
From Steven Chalke and Alan Mann, “The Lost Message of Jesus”, from chapter 7 “A new agenda”, pg. 130, under “Practical Non-violence”: ———- “Whatever he was, Jesus was never passive. Even the briefest reading of the Gospels quickly confirms this. And in line with everything else he stood for, his teaching about loving enemies was […]
Seniors
Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, “How old was your husband?” “98,” she replied. “Two years older than me.” “So you’re 96,” the undertaker commented. She responded, “Hardly worth going home, is it? Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: “And what do you think is the […]
Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
Friday, September 22, 2006 By Ian Morgan Cron. Published by Navpress. Reviewed by Lou Jacquet Every now and then, a book so unique comes along that it seems there are no conventional categories to put it in. Ian Morgan Cron’s first book, billed as “a creative and compelling hybrid of fiction, theology and historical biography,” […]
Grand Parents
Grandparents What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars’ worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown Becoming a grandmother is […]
A New Use for Cults?
Sightings 9/25/06 A New Use for “Cults”? — Martin E. Marty I spotted a new idea, or at least a new idea to me, for approaching terrorism, a phenomenon fraught with religious significance, or at least significance that scholars of religion might probe. This one comes from psychologist Marc Sageman, whose Understanding Terror Networks I […]
Measuring And Managing Clergy Effectiveness
MEASURING AND MANAGING CLERGY EFFECTIVENESS One of the most frequent questions I get is, “You say that we must do a better job of evaluating clergy effectiveness. How is it possible to define ‘effectiveness’?” I believe that those of us who are charged with the ministry of administration must get better at evaluating and rewarding […]
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