Apologetics
Modern Exorcism
Modern Exorcism: Trading Autonomy for Demonology — Joseph Laycock Last month, a feature in the online magazine Details told the story of Kevin Robinson, a gay teenager from Connecticut. Brought up in a Pentecostal household, Kevin first came out to his family when he was sixteen. His mother, refusing to accept homosexuality as a natural […]
WHY FUNDAMENTALISTS MUST EXCLUDE GAYS (AND OTHER SINNERS)
Frank Schaeffer New York Times best-selling author Posted: June 28, 2010 Right Wing Fundamentalists, be they Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish or Muslim, must hate gays (and other sinners) no matter what they say about hating the sin but loving the sinner. They also must hate even the mildest feminism, say my mother’s brand of semi-enlightened […]
The Islamisation of the West
¢â‚¬Å“Islam entered Europe twice and left it… Perhaps the next conquest, Allah willing, will be by means of preaching and ideology. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword… Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and in […]
Islamic authorities exploiting Western freedoms?
“You exploit the very freedoms that democracy gives you” Tracy Grimshaw on Channel 9 TV. Tracy Grimshaw conducts an interesting interview on the Caliphate Conference in Sydney Australia. Channel 9 TV. July 6, 2010. Tracy Grimshaw’s interview of Australian Hizb-ut Tahrir spokesperson Uthman Badar. Grimshaw’s unanswered challenge: “By any perception, you are exploiting the very […]
The Pope and Abuse-victims
A comment from a concerned abuse-victim culled from a larger conversation July 2, 2010 Ratzinger was much more than part of “a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction” – it was during his time in charge of CDF that CDF tried (but thankfully failed, due to outrage among clergy abuse victims) to […]
Atheism, Comparative Religion and more…
Apologia Report: Surveying New Resources in Christian Apologetics – a weekly e-mail briefing in worldview news and study designed to help bring understanding to an age-old arena of conflict Volume 15: Number 24 (1,029) June 30, 2010 In this issue: ATHEISM – new atheists come under fire from “the father of Intelligent Design” CHURCH HISTORY […]
THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS WE DON’T NEED TO HAVE
This is an edited script of a speech given by Per Pinstrup-Anderson, Professor of food nutrition and public policy at Cornell University, New York in Sydney recently. We face a global food shortage, the like of which the world has never seen. How do I know that? I have read books, articles and blogs that […]
Voices for Justice 2010 – stories of hope and prophetic engagement
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com “The gospel deals with the whole man, not only his soul, but his body; not only his spiritual well-being, but his material well-being … Any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul, […]
Protestants repent for churches’ role in oppressing First Nations
June 28, 2010 A global Protestant body representing 80 million Christians has issued an apology for the role played by churches in perpetrating abuse against Native Americans, First Nations and other Indigenous peoples. “We ¢â‚¬ ¦ repent of our history littered with ways in which we have betrayed Gospel values of justice, fairness, and love for […]
Will humans go extinct within 100 years?
[Note from Rowland Croucher: I’m not usually one to query Martin Marty’s judgment on anything, but I wonder about his ‘Professor Frank Fenner is Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s most illustrious scientist’… nevertheless, a very important article (as usual, from Marty)…] ***** *Sightings* 6/28/10 Extinction — Martin E. Marty The blue sky above and the blue lake below my […]
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