Apologetics
Dark Tourism
*Sightings* 5/20/10 ¢â‚¬Å“Let the Night Roar with It: ¢â‚¬ Dark Tourism at Jonestown — Brian Collins The title of this essay is a quote from the last recorded sermon of the Revered Jim Jones. The speech was accompanied by an exultant ululation from him and his people ¢â‚¬“ a penultimate act of defiance against the U.S. […]
The burqa is a war on women
VIRGINIA HAUSSEGGER May 21, 2010 It would seem there are some things in Australia we are not allowed to discuss. A ban on the burqa is clearly one of them. But the time has come to get over our fears and cultural fragilities – and grow up. The call to ban the burqa is receiving […]
‘Allah or Jesus?’
A pamphlet was recently distributed around Dubbo by letter-box-drop headed ALLAH OR JESUS? Immediately a local journalist, quoting a former history teacher, responded in the Dubbo newspaper with an article that condemned the pamphlet. The article accused the pamphlet of quoting a verse from the Koran (ordering Muslims to strike off the heads of unbelievers) […]
‘Situational Heterosexuality’
The most misunderstood concept in the ¢â‚¬Ëœex-gay ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Christian worlds Anthony Venn-Brown © 2010 ¢â‚¬ËœSituational heterosexual ¢â‚¬â„¢ is a term I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve used for several years to describe myself when people have asked how I could have been married for so many years and yet be gay. This term has also helped people gain a clearer understanding […]
Ape *Pieta*
*Sightings* 5/13/10 — Christian Sheppard Two new ethological studies tell us how chimpanzees grieve, raising doubts about the uniqueness of human mourning as well as, perhaps, the superfluity of religious practice. Laboratory scientists in Scotland have made unprecedented close observations of captive chimpanzees reacting to a long-time group member ¢â‚¬â„¢s death and conclude that ¢â‚¬Å“without death-related […]
Martyrdom
*Sightings *5/17/10 — Martin E. Marty Almost always *Sightings* takes off from a current text or image lifted from news and opinion sources. This week our ¢â‚¬Å“current ¢â‚¬ text is 1900 years old. It happened that Sunday I was to engage in a moonlighting vocation, namely preaching a sermon, something I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve enjoyed doing for sixty-two years. […]
Islamic Reformation and Playing Cards
Thursday May 13, 2010 Mark Durie I have been thinking a lot about women in Islam recently, challenged by the message of Wafa Sultan’s book “The God who hates”, which I recently reviewed. Will the lot of Muslim women improve through a ‘reformation’ of Islam? Trying to reform Islam from Islam’s own sources is like […]
Evangelical scholar forced out after endorsing evolution
Posted 4/9/2010 By Scott Jaschik When it comes to incriminating videos these days, the one of Bruce K. Waltke might seem pretty tame. It shows the noted evangelical scholar of the Old Testament talking about scholarship, faith and evolution. What was incriminating? He not only endorsed evolution, but said that evangelical Christianity could face a […]
Blair speech on Islam
Here is the full text of Tony Blair’s speech to the “Islam and Muslims in the world today” conference in London on 4 June 2007: I would like to thank Cambridge University and their partners, the Coexist Foundation and the Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue for hosting this important conference. As many of you will […]
The Name of Israel Will Be Remembered No More!?
12 May 2010 by Daniel Shayesteh, former Iranian Revolutionary Guard and co-founder of Hezbollah. I never cease to be amazed at how the enemies of Israel have been trying to destroy her for thousands of years, aiming to annihilate her, so that no record of her name, Biblical values and God would remain in history. […]
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