Rowland Croucher
Friends…
Why do I have a variety of friends who are all so different in character? How is it possible that I can get along with them all? I think that each one helps to bring out a “different” part of me. With one of them I am polite. With another I joke – with another […]
Review: Timothy Kurek, The Cross in the Closet
Review: Timothy Kurek, The Cross in the Closet, 2012. I was privileged to get to know this remarkable young man recently, when we were co-speakers at a conference in Sydney. Like Andrew Marin [1] he has creatively built a bridge between ¢â‚¬Ëœstraights ¢â‚¬â„¢ and ¢â‚¬Ëœgays ¢â‚¬â„¢, with some remarkable results. Andrew ¢â‚¬Ëœstayed straight ¢â‚¬â„¢ during his immersion into […]
Smile!
The Army has been experimenting for years to come up with a liquid that will eat through anything and they finally did it. It eats through glass, stainless steel, iron, and all kinds of metal, rock and granite. Now if they could only find something to put it in. ============== The driving instructor was giving lessons […]
Christian Pop
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 2/25/2013 Christian Pop — Martin E. Marty Commenting on ¢â‚¬Å“Christian Pop, ¢â‚¬ if one is not at home in it, is precarious and will doubtless reveal how out of it the commentator is. So I wander in with a sense of […]
A Talk to Salvation Army Seniors
Good morning friends. The location for this event – in the Crossway Church auditorium, and 50 metres from the Australian World Vision HQ – is all somewhat ‘deja-vu-ish’ for me: I spent nearly two decades working for a previous incarnation of these two institutions… My first contact with a Salvation Army person was with Mrs […]
Everything is Relational
Everything is Relational by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Over the last year or so I’ve been realising how everything in life is related to our relationships, whether we realise it or not. All of our interactions are either constructive or destructive for our relating. That’s why life is so difficult. I thought of saying during a sermon once […]
The Man who fell from Google Earth
The man who fell from Google Earth BY:DAVID KUSHNER From:The Australian February 23, 2013 12:00AM Saroo Brierley spent long hours scanning Google Earth, sometimes staying up till 4am, looking for his home village. Source: Supplied Saroo reunited with his mother. Source: AP IT was just a small river flowing over a dam wall, but to five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan […]
Humour (by my favourite atheist, Phillip Adams)
The joke’s on us BY:PHILLIP ADAMS From:The Australian February 23, 2013 12:00AM I RECKON a human’s first laugh is a response to the fear of flight and falling. Behold that ancient scene – a father tosses his baby into the air and the poor little bugger inhales with fright only to exhale with relief when caught. […]
PRAY FOR THE WORLD (Feb-Mar 2013)
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 198 | Wed 20 Feb 2013 ——————————————————– LIBYA & SUDAN: CHRISTIANS FACING DEATH FOR THEIR WITNESS – plus vigilant prayer requested for Tanzania ——————————————————– by Elizabeth Kendal Islam is a totalitarian, all-encompassing system of life. Blasphemy (criticism) and apostasy (rejection) are punishable by death for not only are blasphemers […]
Spielberg’s Lincoln is brave and utterly compelling
BY:EVAN WILLIAMS From:The Australian February 09, 2013 12:00AM Daniel Day-Lewis stars as President Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s drama. Source: Supplied IF one were making a film about Abraham Lincoln – and there have been surprisingly few – certain milestones in the great man’s life would surely qualify for inclusion. What film about Lincoln would be complete without […]
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