Apologetics
Power Shift: Australia’s Future Between Washington and Beijing
Power Shift: Australia’s Future Between Washington and Beijing (Hugh White, Quarterly Essay, September 2010 These Quarterly Essays are among my favourite reading. The penultimate issue was David Marr’s on ex-PM Kevin Rudd – just before he was axed (or knifed). Marr’s main thesis: ‘Who is the real Kevin Rudd? He is the man you see […]
Australia: less than 50% ‘Christian’ in 2021
Renowned sociologist Gary Bouma is one of most respected observers of religion in this country. He predicts that, by 2021, less than 50 per cent of Australians will call themselves Christian. More… http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=23601 PS. Gary Bouma was my last ‘academic professor’. In the late 1980s I was pursuing a PhD in Sociology of Religion at […]
Hindu-Muslim Dispute Over Holy Site
*Sightings* 10/7/2010 *Hindu-Muslim Dispute Over Holy Site* – Elsa J. Marty Last week a high court in India announced its verdict on a disputed holy site in the city of Ayodhya. There is perhaps no place in India that better symbolizes contemporary Hindu-Muslim tension. Many Hindus believe Lord Ram, the hero of the *Ramayana*, was […]
Climate Skeptics
Sceptics’ publishing record on climate 2 October 2010 Bob Ward says those who seek to reinterpret the science of climate change often have minimal publication records. Publication involves peer review. This process weeds out experiments and papers which are sub-standard. By contrast, anyone can write a book, write a newspaper article, or address public meetings. […]
Euthanasia: Rational Choice?
‘How to die’ becoming as important a question as ‘how to live’ October 7, 2010 Opinions are divided on whether euthanasia can be a rational choice. BOB Brown’s post-election call for a conscience vote on the territories’ right to pass euthanasia laws has been criticised for being a distraction from issues that really matter to […]
Algeria
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 076 | Wed 06 Oct 2010 ————————————————————— ALGERIA: SOCIETY PROTESTS ISLAMISATION AS CHRISTIANS FACE COURT ————————————————————— As in many emerging Muslim democracies, hard-line Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria have secured the balance of power and are emerging as skilful politicians and experts in the art of quid pro quo. Armed […]
Human Rights – the latest (October 2010)
Battlegrounds for belief Barney Zwartz September 18, 2010 WHICH groups of Australians most worry other Australians? Muslims, gays and – astonishingly – witches. That apparently anachronistic result appears in a survey of public submissions to a national inquiry into freedom of religion and belief in the 21st century, from which the draft report was submitted […]
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF A BISHOP-VICTIM
By Geoffrey Robinson ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 1 OCT 2010 BISHOP GEOFFREY ROBINSON WAS AUXILIARY BISHOP IN THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY FROM 1984 UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 2004. In the middle of the 1990s I found myself in a situation which I now recognise as bizarre. I was a bishop and the leader of […]
How our minds have changed
Sep 23, 2010 by LaVonne Neff Computers are changing the way we think. “Calm, focused, un distracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts ¢â‚¬”the faster, the better.” This is probably not a […]
Western Civilization: If God Goes, the West Goes
Ray Evans From time to time events occur which illuminate clearly the forces at work in the world. In 1988 Jesse Jackson organised demonstrations at Stanford University, one of the most expensive and prestigious centres of learning in the USA. Spearheading the multiculturalists’ crusade against Stanford’s Western Civilization core curriculum for freshmen, Mr Jackson led […]
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