Rowland Croucher
Last rites for the euthanasia debate
September 05, 2006 12:00am JOHN Ferguson writes: Philip Nitschke, Australia’s self-styled euthanasia guru, clearly knows a sucker when he sees one. No doubt, he is also aware he needs to latch on to anything he can in his drive to resuscitate a dying cause. A decade after the Northern Territory voluntary euthanasia legislation was thrown […]
Ignore the hype in the cloning debate
By Nicholas Tonti-Filippini September 4, 2006 When politicians and politicised scientists make inflated claims about treating diseases such as Alzheimer’s or motor neurone disease by stem cell transplant from cloned embryos, the groans from those engaged in neurological research are loud but largely unreported and politically unnoticed. The embryo hype obscures real scientific advances. Cultured […]
Indian farmers driven to suicide
By KRITTIVAS MUKHERJEE, MUMBAI September 5, 2006 More than 100 cotton growers killed themselves in India’s richest state last month, the highest monthly number of suicides in five years by farmers whose mounting loans drive them to death, activists said. The suicides in the western state of Maharashtra took the toll to more than 900 […]
Vlok’s repentance
From a netfriend (6th September 2006): Adriaan Vlok, the former apartheid regime’s police minister, went to church in Soweto on Sunday and heard that his recent apology was “a miracle” that has had a global impact. As part of the apology Vlok recently washed the feet of Reverend Frank Chikane, now director-general in the Presidency, […]
Cars and Cows
A wise old farmer went to town to buy a pickup truck that he saw advertised in the paper for a certain price. After telling the salesman which truck he wanted, they sat down to do the paperwork. The salesman handed the farmer the bill, and the farmer declared, “This isn’t the price I saw!” […]
Sookhdeo on Muslim schools
The following article by Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, was published in the Evening Standard newspaper, London, 4 September 2006 THE SCHOOLS THAT DIVIDE THE NATION Once there were tens. Then there were hundreds. Now Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Branch, speaks of thousands of militant British Muslims, indoctrinated and […]
Grace
“Inscribed on the very heart of God’s grace is the rule that we can be its recipients only if we do not resist being made into its agents; what happens to us must be done by us” Miroslav Wolf “Exclusion and Embrace”
6 September 2006 Daily Update from HCJB World Radio
Today’s Headlines: 600 NATIONAL CHURCH PLANTERS ATTEND CONGRESS IN MEXICO CITY BIBLE SOCIETY NOTES INCREASING DEMAND FOR SCRIPTURES IN CHINA, INDIA CHAPLAIN OUSTS 6 EVANGELICAL GROUPS FROM GEORGETOWN CAMPUS 100 KIEV SCHOOLS TO BEGIN TEACHING CHRISTIAN ETHICS TO 1ST-GRADERS Today’s Top Stories: 600 NATIONAL CHURCH PLANTERS ATTEND CONGRESS IN MEXICO CITY About 600 Mexican church […]
Armed teacher arrested at airport
NEW YORK — A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believed the man was […]
Emotions
From a philosopher/architect: ‘There’s a fear that if you talk about concepts like beauty you’ll sound like an idiot…. If you do a literature course at an Australian university, the one thing no ever says is that a book might make you cry.’
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