Rowland Croucher
The hotel bill
A married couple is travelling by car from Victoria to Prince George . Being seniors, after almost eleven hours on the road, they were too tired to continue and decided to take a room. But, they only planned to sleep for four hours and then get back on the road. When they checked out four hours […]
How a bishop changed his mind about gay issues…
THANK GOD FOR BISHOP JOHN MCINTYRE!!! Please read this extract from the 2012 synod presidential address of the Diocese of Gippsland… “…In the life of our diocese, we rather belatedly committed to a listening process to hear the stories of gay and lesbian people, and to reflect on how seriously we take the commendation of the […]
High population growth a seed to rising unrest
High population growth a seed to rising unrest Date February 1, 2013 Roger Howard Violence can be linked to extreme rates in undeveloped nations. A Malian soldier stands guard. Photo: Reuters As they debate how to tackle the threat of insurgency and unrest in Africa, Western leaders could do worse than to consider one of the […]
Afghanistan: telling it like it is…
Afghanistan mission a total failure Date February 5, 2013 Hugh White As our troops leave Oruzgan this year, the province could slide deeper into the abyss. ‘The real reason we are leaving is that [the US] is leaving.’ This year the Australian Defence Force will pull out of Afghanistan’s Oruzgan Province without having achieved the […]
A black young man – with intelligence and courage…
First to challenge ban against black students at University of Alabama Date February 5, 2013 James Hood. JAMES ALEXANDER HOOD ANTI-SEGREGATIONIST 10-11-1942 ¢â‚¬” 17-1-2013 JAMES Hood, who has died aged 70, rose to national prominence in the US as a civil rights campaigner when he defied segregationists as one of the first black students to enrol […]
Religion: what’s news?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 2/4/2013 Religion News: One Day — Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Public Religion ¢â‚¬ or ¢â‚¬Å“Religion-in-Public, ¢â‚¬ our cause, appears in blogs, films, on TV and radio, and in zillions of sources which together dwarf the coverage in print media, our main source. Occasionally […]
Australians most vulnerable to virtual stalkers
By Marika Dobbin Jan. 23, 2013, 12:37 a.m. Australians are among the world’s heaviest internet users but also the most exposed to being tracked online by companies after personal information, a report warns. The report by the Centre For Internet Safety, associated with the University of Canberra, calls for greater privacy protection for Australians through […]
Pray for the World January/February 2013
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER – SPECIAL EDITION Note: Conservative Evangelical perspective… AFRICAN COUNTRIES MAKE SURGE ON 2013 WORLD WATCH LIST NORTH KOREAN LEADER TALKS OF END TO CONFRONTATION WITH SOUTH WOMAN’S RAPE AND DEATH SPARKS CONVERSATION ON CONDITION OF INDIAN WOMEN CALL TO PRAYER FOR CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA AS ATTACKS CONTINUE WORLD EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE […]
Divorce: the effects on children
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 1/21/2013 Divorce’s Toll — Martin E. Marty Last Wednesday the Chicago Tribune alerted readers to the release that day of an ambitious set of findings about the effects of divorce on children. Reporter Manya A. Brachear called the project ¢â‚¬Å“unprecedented. ¢â‚¬ I crossed […]
Smile!
The SCOTTISH ‘Three Kick Rule’ A Glasgow lawyer went duck hunting in rural Aberdeenshire . He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked […]
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