Apologetics
What’s News? What’s Important?
Media’s crimes of omission leave disaster victims in the lurch Jo Chandler September 17, 2010 ON MONDAY night on ABC TV, a few moments of footage allowed an excruciating insight into the power that is entrusted to the media. Four Corners reporter Liz Jackson was in a hospital in Sukkur, Pakistan, where the human misery […]
Chile’s 9/11: the U.S. still hasn’t apologized
Remembering the other 9/11 ANTONIO CASTILLO SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 Historical memory is fragile and selective. And so I try to excuse the fact that the other 9/11 didn’t even make it into our news daily’s filler. Not a single expression of grief for Chile’s 9/11, when a criminal, US-backed military coup deposed the democratically elected […]
Justice
Personal but Never Private Jim Wallis and Mark Dever don’t see eye to eye, but they do agree on justice. A Leadership interview with Mark Dever and Jim Wallis. | posted 9/13/2010 Washington, D.C., is a city of strong opinions. You don’t have to go far to find protesters, picketers, or pundits making their views […]
One sixth of the world is hungry: action is needed
September 14, 2010 Church grouping says action needed, if one sixth of world hungry An international grouping of churches and Christian organisations says that if one sixth of the world’s population is hungry when there is sufficient food to feed the world, then action to address the problem’s root causes is needed. The Geneva-based Ecumenical […]
Atheism and patience
Thursday, 16 September 2010 Tom ƒ ¡ … ¡ Hal ƒ k: atheism and patience The T&T Clark blog mentions that Czech theologian Tom ƒ ¡ … ¡ Hal ƒ k has been awarded the prestigious Romano Guardini Prize. Hal ƒ k is a Catholic thinker steeped in Nietzsche; he sees modernity’s criticism of Christianity as an indispensable resource, and as the context within which contemporary faith has to […]
ECONOMICS: crisis and recovery
On September 30 2010 Macmillan is publishing a book called Crisis and Recovery by the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Larry Elliott, economics editor of The Guardian. In the book they argue that the financial crisis is about more than money. It is also about morality, casting an uncomfortable light on the […]
BEKASI, INDONESIA: THREAT LEVEL RISES
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 073 | Wed 15 Sep 2010 ————————————- BEKASI, INDONESIA: THREAT LEVEL RISES ————————————- The threat level facing Christians in Bekasi Regency, West Java, has been rising continuously since 27 June when Bekasi’s Islamic leaders publicly denounced ‘Christianisation’ of Bekasi (98 percent Muslim) and urged Bekasi Muslims to prepare for […]
Afghanistan: money and blood down the drain…
Karzai’s cronies make Afghan election a farce Jason Thomas September 15, 2010 Rampant corruption in Kabul is ceding the battle to the Taliban. THE Afghan parliamentary elections this weekend should be a proud moment for the troubled nation. Yet democracy in Afghanistan is wasted because of President Hamid Karzai’s refusal to tackle corruption. The fact […]
Islam: what is a mosque?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 What is a mosque? This is an important and pressing question. I am reminded of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s observation: “One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing’s nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it.”[1] I […]
Radical Islam challenges notions of human freedom
Radical Islamism challenges notions of freedom Michael Nazir-Ali From: The Australian September 15, 2010 IT is often thought the main threat of radical Islamism to the West and, indeed, the world, is terrorism. It is also said to be the isolation of Muslim communities, which allows extremists to recruit people to their cause. Such views […]
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