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Doug Gresham
The Man Behind the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis, author of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe—a feature film coming to theaters soon—was “the best Christian I’ve ever known,” says Douglas Gresham, stepson to the famous writer. by Mark Moring | posted 10/31/05 We all know C. S. Lewis as the great thinker, apologist, and […]
Rev. Dr. Gordon Moyes
Note from Rowland: Jan and I have been privileged to know Gordon and Beverley for many years. I first met Gordon (I think) when he was pastor of Cheltenham Church of Christ, Victoria, when I was at Blackburn, and was invited by him a couple of times to speak at their Leadership Conferences. I had […]
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview
Bono The Rolling Stone Interview By JANN S. WENNER On the first weekend of October, I visited Bono in Cancun, Mexico, where U2 were on a weeklong break before the second North American leg of the band’s Vertigo Tour. Bono and U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. were both there with their families — in fact, […]
The Real Rosa Parks
Published on Monday, October 31, 2005 by CommonDreams.org by Paul Rogat Loeb We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on CNN. So was Rosa Parks, by phone from Los Angeles. “We’re very honored to have her,” said the host. “Rosa Parks […]
Gordon Moyes’ Farewell
(Note from Rowland: I’ve known Gordon for about 32 years, since our Blackburn Baptist / his Cheltenham Church of Christ days in Melbourne. En route to Canada in 1981, Jan and I spent an interesting dinner/evening with Gordon and Beverley at their Sydney home. Rowland Croucher). ~~~ Prime Minister to speak at Moyes farewell The […]
The Comfort of the Villain
Sightings 10/6/05 — Spencer Dew With the death of Simon Wiesenthal on September 20, the Holocaust has slipped further into the past. As survivors pass on, memories of the event recede, and the event itself risks, as Wiesenthal warned, the threat of “trivialization.” Wiesenthal’s prophetic role was to remind the world of the human faces […]
M. Scott Peck dies
Self-help author M Scott Peck dies September 28, 2005 – 3:04PM American author and psychiatrist M Scott Peck, who wrote the best-seller The Road Less Traveled and other self-help books, has died at his Connecticut home. He was 69. Peck died on Sunday, friend and Los Angeles publicist Michael Levine said. He had suffered from […]
Muslim Leader Becomes Evangelist
He was once warmly welcomed by his family; now they threaten to murder him. By OBED MINCHAKPU (Compass) His father sent him to Saudi Arabia from Nigeria when he was 3 years old to be trained as an Islamic cleric, but God had other plans for Ahmed Abdullahi. Raised in Saudi Arabia and born into […]
Adrian Plass, the best Christian writer you’ve never heard of
Door Interview by Emily Winslow Stark Issue #191, January/February 2004 Adrian Plass has sold more than a million books in the United Kingdom. He specializes in “gentle satire” of the evangelical Christian subculture. Wildly popular in England, he at last entered the U.S. market with his most recent, and more serious, novel Ghosts. Amazingly, he’s […]
Albert Schweitzer: A Saint for Labor Day
Sightings 9/1/05 A Saint for Labor Day — John Rollefson Ninety-nine years ago a brilliant young theologian published his four-hundred-page study of how scholars of the preceding century and a half had variously attempted to understand Jesus. More often than not, he found, they had discovered in their research into the “real Jesus” a mirror […]
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