Rowland Croucher
UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION
(Preached by Rowland Croucher at Blackburn Baptist Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, sometime in the 1970s). A little note: I had a simpler faith back in the 1970s. I’d be a bit less ‘black-and-white’ about some things these days (especially about topics like hell and judgment). Rowland Croucher December 2012. (A series of eight sermons on […]
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas…
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com “…they said there’ll be peace on earth.” – Greg Lake I’ve been thinking recently about writing a reflection on how Christmas, and the Christmas spirit, brings alot of peace and goodwill at this time of year. I was going to write about how people are generally nicer to each other and look out […]
Noelogisms: Looking at Life – Through a Punster’s Ear
English has an insatiable appetite for new words, new meanings or interpretations. Most new words – or neologisms (from Greek neo+logos, or new word) ¢â‚¬“ are self-explanatory, but some new words and new meanings arise from the parallel universe of punsters. Noelogisms invites you to step into the fun that pervades this parallel universe, with over a thousand different puns, homophones and […]
Salvation Army Boy’s Home Paedophile ring ‘lent out boys’
Date December 18, 2012 Barney Zwartz BAYSWATER Boys’ Home was a paedophiles’ paradise, with several unexplained deaths and missing boys, and others lent to outside paedophiles, a leading abuse lawyer said on Monday. Angela Sdrinis – whose firm has represented more than 1000 wards of state, including 137 from Bayswater – said systemic abuse by […]
Power and Evil (Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Quotes The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Quotes ¢â‚¬Å“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart […]
Paradise garden: interesting eulogy for an amazing woman!
Paradise garden: Sermon at the State Memorial Service for Dame Elisabeth Murdoch 20/12/2012 Bishop Andrew St John Sermon delivered by Bishop Andrew St John at the State Memorial Service for Dame Elisabeth Murdoch held at St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday 18 December 2012, as transcribed by Anglican Media Melbourne. I speak in the […]
Some prayers aren’t (yet) answered
A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy […]
The Newtown Massacre: Where was God?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 12/17/2012 God and Newtown — Martin E. Marty Four daily newspapers greet the Martys at breakfast. The morning after the school killings at Newtown, Connecticut, twenty-four pages of these informed us, while zillions of twitters and tweets and television and […]
John Falzon, The Language of the Unheard
Review: John Falzon, The Language of the Unheard, Garratt Publishing, 2012 In a recent article advocating an increase in the dole, St Vincent de Paul ¢â‚¬â„¢s Dr John Falzon was quoted as saying it ¢â‚¬â„¢s a matter of deep shame that unemployment benefits are kept low deliberately ¢â‚¬Ëœas a means of humiliating the very people they were […]
The poor get poorer while the rest get the handouts
The poor get poorer while the rest get the handouts Date December 15, 2012 Suzy Freeman-Greene WHEN will Julia Gillard’s government find the courage to raise the dole? Her party’s website tells us it is working for a ”fairer Australia”. But while middle-class welfare endures, our poorest citizens are living far below the poverty […]
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