Apologetics
FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam`s Apostasy Law
By Dr Patrick Sookhdeo Foreword by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali Reviewed by David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org 5 March 2010 By converting to Christianity President Obama is an ¢â‚¬Å“apostate ¢â‚¬ in the eyes of Islam Islam is a one-way street. Non-Muslims can convert to Islam, but Muslims are not allowed to convert from Islam. All schools of Islamic […]
A Perspective on Same-Sex Desire
Note from Rowland: this website has articles from many angles on this theme. Here’s a conservative one. See my comment at the end. ***** Love Divine, All Loves Excelling August 3, 2010 For whatever reason, all of us have different dispositions and face different temptations. And some, from an early age, experience same-sex attraction and […]
Should Christians Scrap Capitalism?
Call to find new economic order based on biblical vision June 14, 2010 Capitalism is deeply flawed, argues UK’s Michael Schluter. SHOULD Christians support capitalism? According to a leading English layman, despite all its material benefits, capitalism as we know it contains moral flaws with serious social consequences. I’m in no position to preach to […]
Women and Islam
Cradle of humanity reaches to the West June 28, 2010 Africa is essentially a collection of 10,000 tribes forced by colonial masters to form 50 nations. How these ancient cultures from the cradle of humanity interact with modernity will be one of more interesting stories of the coming century. African migration is just beginning to […]
Racism in Australia
Have we escaped our past? ROBERT MANNE June 12, 2010 TWO forms of racism were located at the heart of the Australian experience of nation-building. Across the continent, as justification for the occupation of their land, the settlers mounted a prolonged attack on the barbarity of the indigenous ”savages”. Racism also provided the basis for […]
Economics, Regulation and Wealth
Regulate me By Harry T. Cook 7/2/10 Harry T. Cook The economic meltdown of 2007-08, the tragic deaths at the Massey mine in West Virginia and the gusher off the Louisiana coast are each and all the direct result of the deregulation orgy that began in the Reagan era and continues even unto the second […]
Persecution of Christians in Egypt and Indonesia
Church Construction and the Dhimma Pact: the Case of the Diocese of Maghagha and Edwah Friday, July 30, 2010 A post by Mary Abdelmasih reports that Bishop Agathon, 75 clergy and nearly 150,000 Copts from the Diocese of Maghagha and Edwah have staged a sit-in in Maghagha since last Sunday (25 July 2010) protesting against […]
THE PROMISE OF PARADOX
Our pastor (Rev. Dr. Chris Page) asked me to write a 500-word column for the church bulletin on each of the next four Sundays. Here’s the first (and here’s the second): Dear EDBC (East Doncaster Baptist Church) friends, Chris has asked me to write these columns while he ¢â‚¬â„¢s away (there ¢â‚¬â„¢s faith for you!). Today I […]
Gay clergy?
Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, written by Jack Rogers, a Presbyterian pastor and former PCUSA moderator, who has been quoted as saying he agrees with the conservatives in his denomination on nearly everything except this issue. by Rev. Peter M. Wallace Posted: July 20, 2010 Gay Clergy: God’s Spirit at Work? My friend […]
Religion in Schools
*Sightings* 7/26/10 Classroom Controversy — Martin E. Marty Anyone who spends over a half century at the center and the margins of higher academe, as I have, knows better than to get involved with tenure disputes or hirings and firings of faculty. The further away from the scene of conflict one is, the dimmer the […]
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