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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.
 


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Welcome

Hi from Melbourne, Australia! Here's a site for pastors, ex-pastors, church leaders and their spouses - indeed thoughtful people in or out of the church, who want to think more maturely/critically about the Christian faith.

This is a large site, so regular visitors tend to start with the New Articles section. My latest writings can be found here, and in this blog is the story of the two most gorgeous little girls in the world :-)

I'm looking forward to meeting many friends - old and new - in 2008, at the Australian National Seventh-Day Adventists' Pastors' Conference (February) and at various conferences, churches and men's and women's groups. I'm now a little more available to accept preaching and seminar commitments: feel free to email me.

If you'd like to make this your homepage, here's how. Your prayers and donations are always welcome - as are gifts of F W Boreham books, booklets, and memorabilia. You can purchase my books here. Note: I do not draw a stipend/salary: all donations (including those derived from your clicking on Google ads: thanks for doing that; but note I do not always agree with the theological stance of the Google-bot!) go to the Urban Neighbours of Hope Mission which works among the poor (Springvale & Noble Park, Victoria, Australia, and Bangkok, Thailand).

I have an e-list of friends to whom I send - about once a month - a guide to seminal articles on this site, plus other assorted news/wisdom/bits and pieces. Email me if you'd like to be added to this list (or taken off it).

Thanks to our webcrew - Matt, Bradley and Lawrence - for their help in developing/maintaining this site. (Sometimes I'm asked: 'How many 'hits' does the site get?' Answer: currently about 2.5 million a month; a better measure: 8,000+ unique visitors each week-day, 6,000+ most days on weekends).

Shalom! Rowland Croucher

 

Articles of Interest

THE AMAZING DAWN ROWAN SAGA

 

(Channel 7's Today Tonight, Adelaide, broadcast 14th May 2007)

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HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND (by Rowland Croucher)

People – including Yours Truly – do not change their minds simply because a Compelling New Idea comes floating by. To summarize four years of a Masters’ degree in social psychology: given that the new idea has to make sense, it also has to win in the ‘reward/punishment’ stakes. Punishment? Yes, if the group to which you belong and/or whose approval you need despises or even expels you for espousing the new idea, you’ll think twice about embracing it. More...

THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ (by Rowland Croucher)

My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/ evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that influenced me ‘at the time’. Remember, I’m not ‘back there’, stuck where-I-was. I was brought up in a ‘gentle fundamentalist’ church (Open or Plymouth Brethren) and I’m still ‘evangelical’ but now also somewhat ‘progressive’ and ‘catholic’, conservative about a few things but also radical, encouraging individual initiative but also committed to social justice, compassion and community. As Richard Rohr says in his latest book (Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality) we must incorporate - not reject - Torah/tradition, Prophetic/dissenting perspectives and Wisdom/mysticism – all of these - into a full and complete life of faith, hope and love... More...

STRESS/BURNOUT INVENTORY FOR PASTORS/LEADERS

TICK ONE BOX 1 = YES/SERIOUS/BAD) 5 = NO/NOT AT ALL/NOT EVER/OK

I wasn't shown physical affection as a child [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]

I grew up believing my worth was related to success [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]

I have unresolved grief or guilt or anger or fear [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]

I've never really recovered from a past trauma [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ] [   ]

More...

10 NEW BLOGS
(by Rowland Croucher)

Dear friends,

I am in the process of composing ten Blogs for different audiences. Here are their titles and URLs:

1 Month to Meet the Baptists
1 Month of Books you should Read
1 Month to Learn About the Internet
1 Month to Understand your Local Church
1 Month of Answers to Tough Questions
1 Month of Devotions
1 Month to Change Your Life
1 Month to Meet Some Interesting People
1 Month to Become a Christian
1 Month To Meet Jesus

So for the remainder of this year I'm aiming to write about five articles a week: watch for them. And feel free to leave your comments!

Shalom!/Salaam!

Rowland Croucher

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