Rowland Croucher
Searching for truth
How to think ………. 1. Value truth above all other things. 2. Search for truth more than ideas to back up your present world-view. 3. Think about the consequences of that truth. 4. Apply that truth to as many different items as possible. 5. Test that truth multiple times to make sure it works. 6. […]
15 November 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: RADICAL HINDUS CONTINUE TO PRESSURE CHRISTIANS IN INDIA CHRISTIAN GROUPS UNITE TO VOCALIZE PLIGHT OF ORPHANS KOREAN PASTOR EXPELLED FOR MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN KAZAKHSTAN MINISTRY URGES CHRISTIANS TO ‘BARE THEIR BOOKSHELVES’ FOR GOD ANGLICAN PRIEST BRUTALLY STABBED TO DEATH IN JAMAICA An actor handpicked by Chairman Mao’s wife to star in several Chinese […]
Mormons
[1]: Anyone care to educate me on the LDS and where they stand in relation to the Abrahamic faiths? [2] I’m not sure that’s possible in a short answer. But here are my initial thoughts, based on many many hours of discussion with local Mormon missionaries: In many ways, the actual beliefs aren’t so different. […]
Exclusive Brethren
November 15, 2006 Politics, Pamphlets and Prayers Earlier this year John Howard acknowledged that he’d met with members of the Exclusive Brethren, an ultra-conservative Christian group described by some observers as “a moralistic sect”. The group which bars their members from voting in elections, the results of which they say are ordained by God – […]
Conversation on Religion
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2006/11/all_on_faith_panelists/comments.html
Iraq disaster finally caught up with Bush
November 10, 2006 BY ANDREW GREELEY Even the “born-agains” may have been part of the Democratic revolution last Tuesday. In its final pre-election poll, the New York Times, with its usual religious tin ear, presented but did not comment on a graph that showed this Republican “base” was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in […]
Watch Your Language
Sightings 11/13/06 Watch Your Language — Martin E. Marty With regard to the recent election — was it a seismic or glacial change? — I want to make one observation or suggestion. It’s in the “watch your language” category. Ever since my article “The New Christian Right” appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook 1981, I’ve […]
14 November 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: BIBLE SOCIETY IN AUSTRALIA, IBS SIGN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT SRI LANKAN CHRISTIANS CRY FOR HELP AS VIOLENCE INCREASES UNCERTAINTY IN ISRAEL OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVANGELISM U.S. DROPS VIETNAM FROM RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE LIST OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD AIMS TO COLLECT 8 MILLION SHOEBOXES An actor handpicked by Chairman Mao’s wife to star in several Chinese movies […]
Surrogacy
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER SURROGACY THE NEXT MORAL AND ETHICAL MINEFIELD The birth of a baby girl to Victorian Labor Senator Stephen Conroy and his wife Paula Benson last week highlights again how medical science is pushing conventional moral ethics to the limit and shaping Government responses by default before society as a whole has […]
Relativism and Fundamentalism (Peter Berger)
Going to Extremes? Between Relativism and Fundamentalism? peter l. berger ——————————————————————————– Contemporary culture (and by no means only in America) appears to be in the grip of two seemingly contradictory forces. One pushes the culture toward relativism, the view that there are no absolutes whatever, that moral or philosophical truth is inaccessible if not illusory. […]
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