Rowland Croucher
Gun glamour: America’s appetite for anarchy
December 18, 2012 Brian Masters Every day 80 people are shot to death in the US. The Sandy Hook slaughter is not as unusual as it should be. Illustration: Matthew Golding. THE massacre of innocents at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday was indeed, as President Barack Obama put it, heart-breaking. His halting, […]
‘Complete’ vs ‘Finished’
No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic conference held in London, England, and attended by some of the best linguists in the world: Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear winner. His final challenge was this: Some say there is no difference between COMPLETE […]
MY MOST MEMORABLE CHRISTMAS – Jan Croucher
Living in Boulder (WA) and the third of six children was a fairly secure experience. When I was about twelve years old my father mortgaged our house and bought machinery to mine for gold. Unfortunately this venture ended in disaster, with the mine caving in on top of the machinery and no means left to […]
St Martins Collingwood: one church’s ‘health report’
JOHN MARK MINISTRIES Seminars, counseling & consulting services for pastors, ex-pastors, & church leaders Director: Rowland Croucher Email: [email protected] Website: http://jmm.org.au/ This report was commissioned by St. Martin ¢â‚¬â„¢s Church, Collingwood, Melbourne. Here’s an amended version of the congregational report (amended for public consumption without some of the ¢â‚¬Ëœloving criticisms ¢â‚¬â„¢ I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve put in the original, which more […]
Christians in the Middle East, December 2012
Syria war fuels Christian flight from Middle East By Kevin Connolly BBC Middle East correspondent The violence in Syria shows no signs of slowing down The Lebanese city of Zahle sits high the Bekaa valley, on the ancient highway that connects Damascus to Beirut and the world beyond it across the Mediterranean. To reach it from […]
The Future Question: Brian McLaren
The Future Question: Brian McLaren. A New Kind Of Christianity. Wednesday Koinonia notes prepared by Leanne Thomas What about the Future? The Last Times? Prophecy? The Millenium? The Second Coming of Christ? Judgement Day? Brian McLaren has little time for the usual ways the Future Question has been approached by churches in the past. He […]
Just a cartoonist with a moral duty to speak
Just a cartoonist with a moral duty to speak Date December 11, 2012 Michael Leunig The cartoonist’s task is not to be balanced but to give balance. SEVERAL years ago I was invited to speak at Melbourne’s Jewish Museum on the subject of ”The cartoonist as society’s conscience”. I gladly accepted but within a week […]
Miracles: Pro and Con
MIRACLES Quote from my talk to an interesting men’s group last night: 1. Amazing miracles – most of them – happen only during four periods of biblical history: Creation, Moses/Exodus, Elijah/Elisha, Jesus/apostles… 2. There’s little or no evidence that the following have been cured miraculously: 2-1 Advanced pancreatic cancer (see Philip Yancey’s book on Prayer […]
The End of the World is Nigh…
Warning: the end of the world is nigh … Date December 9, 2012 Ted Harrison We’ve been told to prepare for the worst more than 200 times. ACCORDING to John of Toledo, it should have been September 23, 1186, but nothing happened. Judgment day failed to materialise again on April 5, 1761, as foretold by […]
The Rite of Laughter
¢â‚¬Å“A Psalm For Easter ¢â‚¬ Let ¢â‚¬â„¢s celebrate Easter with the rite of laughter. Christ died and rose and lives. Laugh like a woman who holds her first baby. Our enemy death will soon be destroyed. Laugh like a man who finds he doesn ¢â‚¬â„¢t have cancer, Or he does, but now there ¢â‚¬â„¢s a cure. Christ opened wide […]
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