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John McIntyre, a good bishop…
Gippsland Bishop John McIntyre dies, aged 62 11/06/2014 by Muriel Porter and Mark Brolly Bishop John McIntyre of Gippsland has died after a short illness. The 62-year-old bishop, who had led Gippsland ¢â‚¬â„¢s Anglicans since 2006, died at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, on 6 June, almost a week after being admitted to intensive care. He is […]
Southern Baptists Waning
by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | June 16 2014 Southern Baptists, present in every state of the union, outnumber Jews in the whole world. Only Roman Catholics outnumber them in the United States. Citizens who care little about religion and less about denominations have learned to watch the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), if for no […]
Memo to Australia’s Treasurer: your Government’s budget IS unfair
No, Mr Hockey, it remains unfair Date June 16, 2014 Editorial Treasurer Joe Hockey’s defence of the Abbott government’s budget does not pass muster with us. Mr Hockey says it is ”misguided” to believe the government’s budget initiatives were unfair or that they exacerbated inequality. While we agree with Mr Hockey’s contention that there are […]
MONEY AND THE GIFT OF GENEROSITY
* Who dies rich, dies disgraced (Andrew Carnegie) * The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10) INTRODUCTION Money is a very important part of our lives. Try to think of a day recently where money played no part at all. Were you deserted on an island, or […]
The Girl Who Loves Sharks
Shark Girl gives Jaws a makeover Date June 11, 2014 Ben Pobjie An interesting statistic: every year sharks kill five people around the world. In the same time, hippos kill 3000, yet the number of movies about coastal communities terrorised by lethal killer hippos is vanishingly small. The fear of sharks embedded in our consciousness […]
Clergy as professional revolutionaries
by George Clifford Recently, I read Edward Dreyer’s history of wars in China during the first half of the twentieth century, China at War: 1901-1949 (London: Longman, 1995). Unless you have a particular interest in, and background knowledge of, those wars I do not recommend that you make the effort to read this specialist volume. What drew […]
Mavericks in the Church (may their tribe increase!).
IS THERE ROOM FOR MAVERICKS IN THE CHURCH? I came across an article the other day with this title [1]. It began with an IBM ad: ‘Dreams, heretics, mavericks, and geniuses. The story goes thatHenry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to evaluate his company. After afew weeks, he reported favorably except for one thing: […]
Saddam’s two (evil) sons: warning – you could feel very sick after reading this…
The Sum of Two Evils By Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf I TIME: Baghdad Sunday, May 25, 2003 After months of recovering from an attempt on his life that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in […]
Satan And The Devil
Sometimes the original words of the Bible text are left untranslated ( ¢â‚¬Å“Mammon ¢â‚¬ , in Mt. 6:24, is an Aramaic example of this). ¢â‚¬ËœSatan ¢â‚¬â„¢ is an untranslated Hebrew word which means ¢â‚¬Ëœadversary ¢â‚¬â„¢, while ¢â‚¬ËœDevil ¢â‚¬â„¢ is a translation of the Greek word ¢â‚¬Ëœdiabolos ¢â‚¬â„¢, meaning a liar, an enemy or false accuser. ¢â‚¬ËœSatan ¢â‚¬â„¢ has been transferred from the Hebrew […]
Thomas Piketty: The super-rich and the rest of us
The super-rich and the rest of us: author Thomas Piketty Mark Colvin reported this story on Thursday, June 12, 2014 18:26:00 MARK COLVIN: In an Essential Media opinion poll published this week, Australians were asked to compare fairness and equality in the country to the situation 20 years ago. Forty three per cent said they thought Australia […]
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