Posted in Control, Crime, Prison, Violence on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Scotland | ‘No extra space’ in Scots jails
‘No extra space’ in Scots jails
Prison chiefs said they may need increased funding
Prisoners could be released from Scottish jails in an emergency situation because of overcrowding problems, prison chiefs have warned.
Scottish Prison Service chief executive Mike Ewart told MSPs an incident, such as a [...]
Posted in Christianity, Consumer, Culture, Evangelism, Religion on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is this the church being part of the community. Mobilisation?
Posted in Control, Culture, Fundamentalism, Institutionalism, Integrity, Literalism, Religion, Theology, Violence, War on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/world/middleeast/29ramadan.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times
This year in Jerusalem, Muslims and Jews are often crossing paths as major holidays coincide.
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: September 28, 2008
JERUSALEM — Jews are not quiet in prayer. Even when focused on the most personal of quests, as they are this season — asking God for forgiveness for [...]
Posted in Consumer, Control, Culture, Deception, Disaster, Fear, Fundamentalism, Integrity, Literalism, Media, Secularism, Violence, War on Monday, September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I say in my title-block…. “History repeats itself – we don’t learn!
Austrian far Right political leader Heinz-Christian Strache campaigning against Muslim influence
Bojan Pancevski
Police are blaming far Right extremists for desecrating a Muslim cemetery in Austria, the same weekend that the political parties of the far Right made huge gains in the country’s general election.
Over [...]
Posted in Culture, Institutionalism, Religion on Monday, September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By PAUL VITELLO
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/nyregion/29synagogue.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
To find the 10th man for a minyan, the quorum required in Orthodox Jewish services, some rabbis on the Lower East Side of Manhattan have been known in recent years to step into the street and stop passers-by. Are you Jewish? they ask.
Casey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
The prayer [...]
Posted in Culture, Fear, Music on Monday, September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Playlist: David Crosby
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/29/david.crosby.playlist
David Crosby … ‘Somehow the music hung in there for me’ Photograph: Reuters
David Crosby fluttered with the Byrds and cooed with Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, and his past is a patchwork of drug addiction, liver failure and belated fatherhood. Here, the 67-year-old describes the songs that account for his colourful past, including [...]
Posted in Bad Theology, Southern Baptists on Monday, September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please read the below and understand where the iMonk is coming from. This man has integrity!!!!
Follow the link to down load the PDF, and also links to the article including other peoples comments….
I Can’t Say What I Want to Say About the 40/40 Prayer Emphasis….but You Can
September 25th, 2008 by iMonk
LINK: Read Matt Davis’s take [...]
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Education, Fundamentalism, Politics, Theology, Violence on Monday, September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Eugene Cho
This is hard to read. Hard to swallow. Hard to understand … especially when it happens at a Christian university such as George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon (20 miles southwest of Portland). From numerous respected accounts, I have only heard good things about the university, so I share this news not in [...]
Posted in Books, Christianity, Culture, Dostoevsky, Literature, Religion, Theology on Sunday, September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/09/27/bodost127.xml
A N Wilson discovers why, amid turmoil in the church, the Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book about one of his literary passions: Dostoevsky Rowan Williams on Dostoevsky
Rowan Williams divides us, even those who are not church hobbyists with an obsession (pro or anti) with [...]
