Rowland Croucher
Geoffrey Robertson plays with fire…
Hit squads join queue as Geoffrey Robertson plays with fire BY:PETER WILSON, EUROPE CORRESPONDENT From:The Australian November 24, 2012 12:00AM GEOFFREY Robertson’s wife, author Kathy Lette, occasionally jokes that if somebody killed him the police would never solve the crime because there simply would be too many suspects. “I guess I have made quite a few […]
Church services any day now…
PASTOR: Praise the Lord. CONGREGATION: Hallelujah! PASTOR: Can we please turn our Tablet PC, iPad, Cellphone, Kindle Bibles to 1 Cor. 13:13 ¢â‚¬ ¦.! And please switch on your Bluetooth to download the sermon ¢â‚¬ ¦. ! PASTOR: Let us pray committing this week into God ¢â‚¬â„¢s hands. Open your WhatsApp, BBM, Twitter and Facebook and chat with your God. Come on ¢â‚¬ ¦ PASTOR: Please have your […]
Dom Helder Camara’s pastoral poems
Two of Dom Helder Camara ¢â‚¬â„¢s best (pastoral) poems (from A Thousand Reasons for Living, pp. 63, 112): By the grace You grant me of silence without loneliness, give me the right to plead, to clamour for my brothers and sisters imprisoned in a loneliness without silence! ~~ It is worth any sacrifice, however great or […]
For Some ‘White Christmas’ Feeling….
Type in your address (or any of your familyaddresses) and look through the window to see the snow falling on your hometoday. Amazing!! Something for Christmas you won’t get anywhere else this summer!! http://www.pusher.com.au/clients/pusher-christmas-2011
Phillip Adams, Bedtime Stories…
Phillip Adams, Bedtime Stories: Tales from my 21 years at RN ¢â‚¬â„¢s Late Night Live, ABC books, 2012. Phillip Adams is Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s #1 auto-didact/ public intellectual. To that add: premier raconteur, acquaintance of more-interesting-people than anyone, kingmaker (eg. during Bob Hawke/Bill Hayden saga), most-listened-to radio interviewer by people who love ideas, rather than wallowing in the […]
Grandma Still Drives —Priceless :-)
Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes: Dear Grand-daughter, The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a ‘Honk if you love Jesus’ bumper sticker .. I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling […]
Pray for the World – December 2012
CIRCULATION CODE 3. OPEN. May be circulated to general mailing lists, outside organizations, and quoted from freely in reports citing “Middle East Concern” as the source of the information. Dear friends, Greetings in the name of Jesus, Prince of Peace Iranian Christians request further prayer for pastor Yousef Nadarkhani and his family. Earlier this month […]
Rob Bell’s New American Christianity?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 12/3/2012 Rob Bell ¢â‚¬â„¢s New American Christianity? — Martin E. Marty The public media evidently cannot get enough of ¢â‚¬Å“The Hell-Raiser, ¢â‚¬ as Rob Bell is called in the current New Yorker, or the harbinger of ¢â‚¬Å“A New American Christianity, ¢â‚¬ as announced in the […]
God’s problem with women :-)
Heavens, with all these goings-on, it seems women haven’t a prayer Date November 25, 2012 Annabel Crabb Lady bishops? Nuns worried about poverty? We’ll have none of that, not in our churches! Sally Hitchener, chaplain of Brunel University in London, crosses her fingers that the synod will vote for the ordination of women bishops. Photo: Reuters […]
The Sex Question (Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity, chapter 7)
(Handout for the Wednesday Koinonia group, 28 November 2012) The Sex Question A New Kind of Christianity ¢â‚¬“ Chapter 17 Fundasexuality ¢â‚¬“ A combative form of religious fundamentalism that preoccupies itself with sexuality ¢â‚¬ ¦ it declares war on those that differ (p. 235) McClaren ¢â‚¬â„¢s questions with respect to sexuality: Greco-Roman culture ¢â‚¬“ a sexually charged culture […]
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