Apologetics
ADDRESS TO OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (Father Frank Brennan)
Game on for Parliament FRANK BRENNAN SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 It seems almost an eternity ago that we heard those words, ‘Game on’. We congratulate those who have been re-elected to the Parliament. We express our prayerful best wishes to those elected for the first time, including Australia’s first Aboriginal member of the House of Representatives. […]
READING THE BIBLE WITH THE POOR
*Sightings* 9/30/2010 *Reading the Bible in South Africa* — James Hoke The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrated the unity and capability of the new South Africa. Despite doubts and negative press from around the world, South Africa rose to the occasion by producing stunning new soccer stadiums, making its streets safe and accessible, hosting big-screen […]
‘The Aboriginal Problem: let the full-bloods die out’
Message from a friend on Facebook (30 September 2010): It was not until 1967 that the Australian Govt changed the following policy: In Hansard is recorded – “Let the full bloods die out, breed the colour out of the rest and we’ll never know that we had an aboriginal problem…” [ I can give you […]
Euthanasia Debate
From a friend who is a surgeon – In my pracice, in which I saw a new cancer of the lung every week day, over half of these patients would die, but on only oneoccasion did I have a patient ask for help to die. They all ask for help in dying, but not my […]
Future generations will wonder, what were they thinking?
Kwame Anthony Appiah September 29, 2010 Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father’s duty, homosexuality was a hanging offence, and waterboarding was approved. Through the middle of the 19th century, slavery was condoned and women were forbidden to vote. Well into the 20th century, lynch mobs in America […]
Politics and Religion
THE LEFT AND THE POLITICS OF ATHEISM By John Milbank ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 28 SEP 2010 JUST MONTHS AFTER THE ALP APPOINTED ITS FIRST OPENLY ATHEIST LEADER, THE LABOUR PARTY IN BRITAIN HAS FOLLOWED SUIT BY ELEVATING OF ED MILIBAND TO LEADER. Just months after the Australian Labor Party appointed its first openly […]
Climate Change Apathy
Flannery warns of climate change apathy April 12, 2010 & September 26, 2010 The half-asleep look on a koala’s face is a reminder that not all creatures use their brains in responding to the harsh reality of climate change, a leading climate scientist says. Speaking at an International Federation of Surveyors Congress in Sydney today, […]
Hoon Behavior is on the Rise: Why?
Poor decisions of our own helped rise in hoon behaviour Peter Gebhardt September 27, 2010 Magistrate Robert Kumar, at Broadmeadows, asked some very pertinent questions in the course of his hearing of matters arising from illegal drag races at Campbellfield last March. He said, “All these young people – there must be something very wrong. […]
World Poverty (Tim Costello)
Note from Rowland: I spent an exciting/strategic decade with World Vision – and we talked about most of this back then (in the 1980s). But (my former parishioner) Tim Costello has the commitment, contacts, and intelligence to put this into practice. Terrific! ***** World Vision CEO and potential parliamentarian Tim Costello wants to change the […]
Islam and Jihad: Does Islam have a plan to take over the world?
Someone sent me this, and as I’m not an expert in this area, got a bit of advice from a couple of scholars… Their combined opinion: Not all these benchmarks are accurate, but the principle that Islam only reveals its doctrine of jihad and desire for political control as it becomes more powerful is true, […]
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