Rowland Croucher
Fundamentalism and anti-bullying events
How Christian fundamentalism feeds the toxic partisanship of US politics When evangelicals attack ‘the gay agenda’ of an anti-bullying event in schools, something is sick in America’s religious culture. Katherine Stewart The Guardian, Thursday 25 October 2012 A gathering of evangelical Christians in Washington. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Reuters Mix It Up at Lunch Day is one of […]
Spoonbending: what’s the use of it?
Psychic buster sees some unbelievable times ahead Date October 27, 2012 Lawrence Money TV host Don Lane kicks James Randi off his show in 1980. ”ONE of the weirdest claims,” says international psychic-buster James Randi, ”was the woman who said she had the power to make men urinate when she willed it. One of our […]
Jesus’ ‘Wife’ – the latest
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 10/25/2012 The Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of ¢â‚¬Å“Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ Wife ¢â‚¬ — Trevor W. Thompson and David C. Kneip On September 18, 2012, Prof. Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity School made public the so-called ¢â‚¬Å“Gospel of Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ Wife ¢â‚¬ at a […]
I Believe…
A Birth Certificate shows that we were born. A Death Certificate shows that we died. Pictures show that we live! Have a seat. Relax . . . and read this slowly. I Believe… that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other, and just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean […]
Children and Sexual Discovery
What’s happening to our children? Our back balcony overlooks a Primary Schoolyard (kids aged 5-about 12). The other day I watched a group of two girls and four boys – about 9/10/11 years old – flirting. One of the girls was doing a ‘pole dance’ on a verandah pole, obviously masturbating. Then she’d hold her […]
Brian McLaren: The Gospel Question
(Prepared by Rev. Grant Stewart for the Wednesday Koinonia group 24/10/12) THE GOSPEL QUESTION: I suspect that many of us resonate with McLaren ¢â‚¬â„¢s re-interpretation of what constitutes the Gospel ¢â‚¬“ that in fact Jesus was announcing Good news ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“the Kingdom of God is at hand! ¢â‚¬ Like many I have grown up with the epistle to […]
Healthy New Testament Churches?
We would all love to know the answers to questions such as: ¢â‚¬ËœWhat is the New Testament model for church leadership (or ministry structure, or conflict resolution, or mission, or worship, or . . .)? ¢â‚¬â„¢ ¢â‚¬ËœWhat are the New Testament principles for healthy church life (or for mediating divisions, or planting new churches, or . . .)? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Or perhaps: […]
Christian Bias? A Sociology Study on Gay Parents
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 10/22/2012 Christian Bias? A Sociology Study on Gay Parents — Martin E. Marty Sightings, at least in its Monday column releases, regularly classifies many topics dubbed ¢â‚¬Å“church and state ¢â‚¬ as being unsolvable. We have quoted Walter Berns who wrote that […]
‘I was a monster, a thief. I stole people’s lives.’ The Washington sniper Lee Boyd Malvo speaks, 10 years on
For three weeks in 2002, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Mohammad terrorised a nation. While Mohammad was put to death for murdering 16 people at random, his accomplice, who was 17 at the time, was spared execution. Josh White meets him Lee Boyd Malvo said he remembers each of the sniper shootings in detail. […]
Today’s Humo[u]r
Three leaders of the big beer companies meet for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a Bud. Miller’s president orders a Millers and the president of Coors orders a Coors. When it is Guinness turn to order he orders a soda. Why didn’t you order a Guinness everyone asks? Nah Guinness replies. If you […]
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