Rowland Croucher
Human Cloning unnecessary and morally flawed, say churches
8 October 2006 Australians should oppose legislation allowing the creation of human embryos with the intention of destroying them for research, the President of the NSW Council of Churches said today. Commenting on two Bills before the Senate, Council President Mr David Crawford said a ban on human cloning, in place since 2002, should remain. […]
Boreham on The Power of One Person
Boreham on The Power of One Person: Back in the 1930s F. W. Boreham, the noted Australian editorialist had the insight to see that the fate of peoples had been decided not so much by the outcome of wars as by the influence of strategic personalities. Creasy might write of the world Decisive Battles, but […]
Chuckle Time
Some boom boom jokes to brighten your day!! 1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent. 2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, “I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything.” 3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, […]
Sick at Heart,
“Sick At Heart” By Carol Lauhon Before boarding a flight at the Portland, Ore., airport on Sunday, I was among numerous passengers being shunted rapidly through “security,” being divided into lines in the same visual way as in those images from documentary films about the death camps. We shuffled through, carrying our belongings, and docilely […]
Pentecostals and charismatics will shape politics and culture
‘Renewalist’ impact grows Pentecostals and charismatics, one-quarter of the world’s Christians, will shape politics and culture. Friday, 10/13/06 By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Growing up in Colombia, Jos © Soto vila had a loving family that gave him many opportunities. He became a chess champion and was given a car […]
Usury
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … Usury (in the original sense of any interest) is scripturally and doctrinally forbidden in many religions. Usury was denounced by countless spiritual leaders and philosophers of ancient times, including Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Aquinas, Muhammad, Moses, and Gautama Buddha. …… Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to a fellow Hebrew in […]
The Unexamined Life
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates, in Plato “Dialogues, Apology” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Socrates spoke these words to the jury in the court of Athens in the year 399 BCE (before the common era) after he had been found guilty of heresy and sedition. Heresy, a crime that threatened the established religion, and sedition, that […]
Voting for Christians
Voting for Christians is no light decision Beyond moral issues =================== There is no doubt that Christians are increasingly keen to influence Australian politics today. This is especially so among evangelical and Pentecostal Christians. Within my own small circle of friends, I have met three Christians running for seats in the Victoria State Election in […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fragile stability threatened by Islamisation
Subj: Bosnia: Fragile stability threatened by Islamisation. On Tuesday 10 October at around 4:30am, an unidentified assailant armed allegedly with a “Zolja” hand-held grenade launcher shot a missile into a mosque in the Jasenica area of Mostar, southern Bosnia. Jasenica is a Croat majority suburb of Mostar which is split evenly between Bosnian Muslims and […]
Stages of Faith: An Interview with James Fowler
Stages of Faith An Interview with James Fowler by Harold Kent Straughn Straughn: Dr. Fowler, I’d like to begin by asking you to unfold in summary form the six stages of faith as your research has developed them. Fowler: All right. Inevitably this will be sketchy. If we start with infancy-the time from birth to […]
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