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Gay report shelved, say beyondblue ex-staff
This saga has created quite a kerfuffle… Is that response warranted? Melissa Fyfe October 01, 2011 Australia’s depression charity restricted access to a key report into gay and lesbian mental health because staff were concerned about the views of the organisation’s chairman Jeff Kennett, former employees – and the report’s author – claim. Former staff […]
Humo[u]r
TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?DONALD: H I J K L M N O. TEACHER: What are you talking about? DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O. ============================= There were 3 friends stranded in an island. Exploring the island, the 3 men found a bottle so they opened it. A genie […]
Machine Gun Preacher
Sightings 10/3/2011 — Martin E. Marty Preachers, pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams number in the hundreds of thousands in the United States. They minister at the borders between what get tabbed ¢â‚¬Å“sacred ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“secular ¢â‚¬ realms, and as such cannot go unnoticed in public media. Some critics in the culture wars complain that they too often do get […]
Leymah Gbowee: Firebrand for Peace
Sep 18, 2011 By Eliza Griswold Liberia ¢â‚¬â„¢s brutal civil war made a fearless leader out of Leymah Gbowee. ¢â‚¬Å“I couldn ¢â‚¬â„¢t even scream. I had never seen someone killed before. The dead boy ¢â‚¬â„¢s bloody body lay where it fell, and I was frozen. ¢â‚¬ This searing moment, in the summer of 1990, would come to […]
Francis and the animals
NATURE AS MIRROR Monday, October 3 Death Anniversary of St. Francis in 1226 Francis ¢â‚¬â„¢ first sermon was not to humans, but to birds. At the end of the sermon, he told the birds, ¢â‚¬Å“Now, go off, because I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve told you who you are. ¢â‚¬ And he was addressing them as equals in […]
Pray for the World October 3. 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER MORE THAN 100 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN NIGERIA MUSLIM EXTREMISTS IN SUDAN THREATEN TO TARGET CHRISTIANS HOME BIBLE STUDY GROUP FINED IN CALIFORNIA HOMOSEXUAL GROUPS USE PRESSURE TACTICS ON PAY PAL STUDY REVEALS CHRISTIAN MEN MAKE BETTER HUSBANDS JERSEY POST CLASSIFIES BIBLE CD AS OFFENSIVE MATERIAL MORE THAN 100 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN […]
Islam: Shameful silence over executions
This brutality is not Islam Mehdi Hasan October 2, 2011 The death sentence given to Youcef Nadarkhani in Iran is an affront to universal moral values and a disservice to Muslims Freedom of religion is guaranteed by Islam ¢â‚¬â„¢s holy book in the famous verse: ¢â‚¬ËœLet there be no compulsion in religion’. Photograph: Martin Godwin for […]
Herbal Medicines: Trick or Treat?
Trick or treat? Gary Tippet October 02, 2011 If many herbal medicines have at best only a placebo effect, why are they still so popular? PROFESSOR Alastair MacLennan is head of obstetrics and gynaecology at Adelaide University and a man with strong opinions and a deft way with words. Both qualities came together in June […]
Humo[u]r
The patient says, “Doctor, I have a pain in my eye whenever I drink tea.” The doctor says, “Take the spoon out of the glass before you drink.” ======================= A student is talking to his teacher. Student: “Would you punish me for something I didn`t do?” Teacher:” Of course not.” Student: “Good, because I haven’t done […]
Prayer as ‘request’
Even if all the things that people prayed for happened, which they do not, this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted… ~ C S Lewis, ‘The World’s Last Night’ […]
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