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					<description><![CDATA[SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint JULY 16, 2014 Â Corrected/and reposted 25/4/2017 [To be updated] Note from Rowland: This article has been published in Gesher, the official journal of the Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria), Vol. 4 No. 5, November 2014.Â  As I write, today (14/7/2014) the story of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8216;YOU SHALL WALK IN THE DARK PLACES&#8217; SeptemberÂ 11, 2014 This week&#8217;s news: &#8216;A teacher who had a major psychological breakdown after dealing with &#8220;feral&#8221; students at a Melbourne school has been awarded almost $770,000 in damages. Peter Doulis took legal action against the Victorian Government claiming he suffered a major breakdown after being allocated some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MARRIAGE EQUALITY: KEY RESOURCES</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources&#8230; Find these by googling titles etc. and adding jmm.org.au ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, including this one AA: A fairly thorough overview: Homosexuality &#38; the Bible (6 articles) AAA: Too busy? Here&#8217;s just one (Steven Chalke&#8217;s) Prof. Gary Bouma (One group [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ANANIAS &#038; SAPPHIRA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[We &#8216;peregrinating preachers&#8217; tend to have a store of favourite themes. Here&#8217;s one version of a sermon I&#8217;ve preached hundreds of times (that&#8217;s not a misprint)! YouÂ ask, &#8216;Should anything be preached that often?&#8217; My response: anything I believe is worthÂ saying is worth saying again. This story has themes implicit within itÂ which are pivotal to our [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[LET&#8217;S MAKE IT SIMPLE: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (A sermon) Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: &#8216;ideas-worth-spreading.&#8217; The world&#8217;s leading &#8216;thinkers and doers&#8217; &#8211; like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others &#8211; speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dave Andrews, The Jihad of Jesus: The Sacred Nonviolent Struggle for Justice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dave Andrews,Â The Jihad of Jesus: The Sacred Nonviolent Struggle for Justice, Â Wipf and Stock, 2015. Dave begins: I do not write this as an expert&#8230; [but] as a Christian, in conversation with Muslim friends Â This is for Christians who&#8217;ve been listening to too many crusading combative pastors, like Mark Driscoll, and for Muslims who follow [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[(A chapter in my forthcoming bookÂ Questions and Responses: the toughest questions I&#8217;ve ever been asked). + A young friend had a baby out of wedlock, and when he was born the hospital didn&#8217;t let her see him. She had been persuaded to surrender him for adoption. The one-night encounter with a dark-skinned Asian student gave [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? (I DOUBT IT)â€¨ Christians come in about 13 varieties. These varieties (or mindsets) can be found in all religions. You mustn&#8217;t judge any religion simply on its caricatures. My theses: Each mind-set makes part of Christianity the whole of it. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with the parts. But like a car, if [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The question: &#8216;WHAT ARE THE BEST REASONS &#8211; IN WHAT ORDER &#8211; FOR SOMEONE CHOOSING TO BELIEVE IN [THE EXISTENCE OF] GOD? What&#8217;s your experience? Here are my rough notes on ten classic routes from non-theism to theism/Christianity. I&#8217;ve put them in the order I&#8217;ve experienced them (both in terms of time, and relevance). Yours? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MARRIAGE: Find the Acronym</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rowland Croucher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 23:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MARRIAGE (FIND THE ACRONYM!) On the 15th April, 1995, the Rev. Jan Croucher (my wife) and I &#8216;celebrated&#8217; the marriage of our daughter Amanda, to John Southwell. The beautiful service at the Heathmont Baptist Church in Melbourne, Victoria, began with Amanda&#8217;s four cousins &#8211; sisters who are all brilliant musicians &#8211; playingÂ Bach&#8217;s Air on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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