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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Your Mind

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 23, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

In his book The Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom laments the decline of true education in this nation’s colleges and universities. Bloom decries the way many professors have dispensed with the traditional canons of literature in favor of whatever is trendy and vogue. He mourns the fact that critical thinking and thoughtful discernment […]

Fear

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!” Winston Churchill

Time

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

ABOUT TIME “Everywhere is walking distance: if you have the time.” “Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.” “Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.” “If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.” “Time is the progress of God’s Creation toward the consummation of His Purpose.”

Be Thankful!

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Be Thankful ! I AM THANKFUL: FOR THE WIFE WHO SAYS IT’S HOT DOGS TONIGHT, BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME, AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. FOR THE HUSBAND WHO IS ON THE SOFA BEING A COUCH POTATO, BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS. FOR THE TEENAGER WHO […]

Wealth and need

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?” J.G. Holland

Rebuke

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“If you reprove someone, you yourself get carried away by anger and you are satisfying your own passion; do not lose yourself, therefore, in order to save another.” A bba Macarius the Great.

Relating to Others

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 2, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

A brother asked an old man: What is humility? And the old man said: To do good to those who hurt you. The brother said: If you can not go that far, what should you do? The old man replied: Get away from them and keep your mouth shut.

Make one person happy

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. Charley Willey

Mystery

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ May 16, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein

Selfishness