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Rowland Croucher

Rowland Croucher has written 26185 posts for John Mark Ministries

Installation Homily

(A friend in Canberra alerted me to this… Archbishop Coleridge is an impressive man… Rowland) ~~~ ARCHBISHOP MARK BENEDICT COLERIDGE HOMILY AT THE INSTALLATION MASS OF ARCHBISHOP MARK COLERIDGE AS SIXTH ARCHBISHOP OF CANBERRA AND GOULBURN St Christopher’s Cathedral, 17 August 2006 In times long past, it was God who called Abraham, and the angel […]

Monogamy

‘Sometimes “secular” values exert a good influence on developing religious values. Monogamy became the norm for Jews and Christians through the influence of the pagan Roman world, not through meditating on Hebrew scripture… ‘The Bible itself (especially in the wisdom literature) is sometimes deliberately open to empirical knowledge…’ Christian Century March 3, 1999, p. 255

The Nazis and Islamic Anti-Semitism

The Nazis and Islamic Anti-Semitism. 1. A video clip showing the Mufti of Jerusalem meeting Hitler: Downloading the video clip If you would like a copy of this video to put on your laptop etc, one of our colleagues has uploaded it to the following public server. It is a 17mb download. Download instructions: When […]

Cell Phone Theology

Sightings 8/24/06 Cell Phone Theology — Brent A. Smith I see applications for Paul Tillich’s theology of culture in the most unusual places. His claim that “religion is the substance of culture [and] culture is the form of religion” reminds me to look for the deepest longings and “ultimate concerns” of human nature in contemporary […]

Open Office

From a pastor/geek (August 2006): TRULY enlightened ones, whether they run around in a MAC or use a P(erfect)C(omputer) :o) might look into OpenOffice, a free download from http://www.openoffice.org. It’s a multiplatform, open-source, multi-lingual, multi operating system office suite roughly equivalent to Microsoft Office – with word processor, spreadsheet, multimedia presenter, graphics program and database. […]

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Some believe it was Syrian Christians who first translated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Arabic. Not correct. It was Catholic Christians in Jerusalem in 1926 who first published this text in Arabic. The Palestinian Christians also presented Churchill with a copy of the protocols in 1923. (See Bat Ye’or Islam and Dhimmitude […]

Dhimmi Middle Eastern Christians on Israel

One of the pernicious effects of the system of dhimmitude is that dhimmi religious groups adopt the survival strategy of espousing enmity against other non- Muslims. This is a response to the terror-inducing threat of jihad. As an example, it was Catholic Christians who first translated the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Arabic. […]

24 August 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio

Today’s Headlines: AUTHORITIES ARREST TOP CHINESE CHRISTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY 1,000 COMPASSION-SPONSORED CHILDREN TO RECEIVE COLLEGE EDUCATION HEZBOLLAH, ISRAEL CEASEFIRE PROVIDES OPENING FOR RELIEF SUPPLIES PASTOR, 3 CHURCH MEMBERS BEATEN, ARRESTED FOR ‘FORCED CONVERSION’ * ELIMINATION OF RIVER BLINDNESS IN ECUADOR MOVES CLOSER TO REALITY Today’s Top Stories: AUTHORITIES ARREST TOP CHINESE CHRISTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS […]

And God sayeth unto man: I’ve had it!

(•) And God sayeth unto man: I’ve had it! By Rev. John F. Hudson | August 23, 2006 MAKING HIS first public remarks in more than 1,000 years, God appeared in the heavens yesterday and ordered all world religions founded in His/Her name to “immediately take a well-deserved and long overdue time-out.” At the crowded […]

Proclaim Jesus

TO PROCLAIM JESUS, CRUCIFIED AND RISEN, OUR JUDGE AND OUR HOPE A Sermon based on the Statement of Faith of the United Church of Canada by Avena A. Ward St. Pauls United Church of Christ August 20, 2006 Texts: Romans 8:28, 31-37; John 3: 16-21 As I was meditating on the Statement of Faith for […]