Rowland, You started off (in the article What Women Want: see http://shoshanna.org/priscillasfriends/womenwant.html )discussing some statistics of women’s ‘public’ life. i.e. * By the year 2005, 40 percent of all American firms will be female-owned. * Four out of five Japanese small business owners are women. * Western women control 80 percent of household spending. * […]
>> Suppose you were god. Would you make it obvious that there is a god or >> would you hide it? >I had never thought about it, and the question seems unrelated to >the particular reasons I am an atheist. >However, thinking about it, I guess it would depend whether or not >I was interested […]
John Wesley: “If you read your Bible and then go out into the world and find it does not relate, you had better go back and re-read your Bible.”
ETHIICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN ACCESS TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES BY SINGLE AND LESBIAN WOMEN £Some women are lucky enough to fall in love with a good man and end up with children who are cherished and bought up beautifully, and they all live happily ever after. Today, however, most of us with a few blaring blinkered […]
This is very long. I will be happy to answer further questions, but I will not seek to further pursue the subject in this kind of detail. My apologies for raising this subject, which is usually deprecated in aus.religion.christian. My aim was to show that [our friend’s] description of sceptics in the weeping icons thread: […]
Christian Quotation of the Day October 27, 2000 If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. … William Barclay (1907-1978)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-078 THE ORIGINS OF DOUBT (1) From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart, […]
http://www.skeptic.com/mag82.html In the current issue of Skeptic Magazine, there is a very good (and long) article titled: “BROUGHT INTO THE FOLD: Scientology as a Case Study on Influence and Persuasion in Religion” by Daniel E. Martin. Martin’s article focuses on the use of influence and persuasion used on potential religious recruits… in order to survive […]
by Guy Zapoleon Obituary Notice: Today we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic […]
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging.