Rowland Croucher
Australia Says Sorry
Friday, February 15, 2008 Australia Says Sorry: “This is history, unna?” (by Jarrod McKenna) Black and white, we waited like I had waited in the mosh pit for Rage Against the Machine two weeks earlier. Yet the main feature on this day, a day that so many had been waiting for, working for, praying for, […]
Evolution is no threat to thoughtful religion
Evolution is no threat to thoughtful religion, say US churches Hundreds of US churches and many thousands of religious believers defied the stereotype that American Christianity is a cipher for anti-science creationism last week, as they marked Evolution Weekend with sermons and seminars on the consonance of spiritual and scientific exploration. Pastors, theological educators, scientists […]
We can use the market to tackle poverty
We can use the market to tackle poverty, says Nobel Prize winner By staff writers 16 Feb 2008 Harnessing the power of the market to help solve the problems of global poverty, hunger and inequality is both possible and necessary, a Nobel Peace Prize winner told an invited audience of specialists in London on Thursday […]
Truth is the big loser (ABC and Sharia Law)
Truth is the big loser in the chase for a sensational headline Maher Mughrabi February 12, 2008 AS A lifelong atheist and secularist, it’s discomfiting when you suddenly feel compelled to speak up in defence of a churchman’s right to discuss Islamic law. But the bedlam that has broken out over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s […]
Saying sorry is not enough
Saying sorry is not enough without rectifying the wrongs Mark Baker February 12, 2008 CAN the children stolen from their mothers in Australia ever forgive? Should survivors of the Holocaust forgive a repentant Germany for the murder of their families? Will Palestinians and Israelis one day forgive each other for the dispossession and wasted lives? […]
Britain’s ‘honour’ killings
When love is a crime: the horror of Britain’s ‘honour’ killings The Age February 01 2008 By James Button THE grainy video, taken on a mobile phone and played in a British court last year, shows a young woman lying on a bed, telling how her father had tried to kill her. She says he […]
Archbishop fuels controversy over Islamic law in UK
Riazat Butt, London February 9, 2008 THE Archbishop of Canterbury has been criticised from all quarters for backing the introduction of sharia law in Britain. Dr Rowan Williams argued that adopting some aspects of sharia seemed “unavoidable”. Giving Islamic law official status in Britain would help to achieve social cohesion because some Muslims did not […]
Pray for the World
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * NEW PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA AN OUTSPOKEN COMMITTED CHRISTIAN * KENYAN CHILDREN PRAY FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND GET MIRACULOUS RESULTS * CHAD: ISLAMIC JIHADIST COUP POSES MAJOR THREAT * GAZA BELIEVERS, IN FEAR, CONTINUE TO PROCLAIM JESUS * BIBLES CONFISCATED AT AIRPORT IN MALAYSIA * NEW DRAFT LAW PROPOSING DEATH […]
Smoking, and drugs generally
To the question: If you believe that smoking tobacco is ok, then you are ok with injecting heroin into your vein (or snorting it) Mark replied: … or use Laudanum (A tincture of opium, formerly used as a medicine) which was used by Christians (such as Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Lewis Carroll and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) in […]
True or False?
In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb” ——————————————- Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word […]
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