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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Apologia Report – Tiger Woods, Mormonism, Scientology etc.

By and others ⋅ May 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Note from Rowland: This is worth subscribing to… 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 18 (1,023) May 12, 2010 In this issue: ETHICS – Tiger Woods and the quality […]

Review: Quarterly Essay

By and others ⋅ May 13, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Quarterly Essay is (in my view) a ‘must-read’ Australian publication, with a 25,000-word essay in each issue by a prominent academic or political commentator. The last-but-one had a brilliant offering by Mungo MacCallum titled ‘Australian Story’: his attempt to fit Prime Minister Kevin Rudd into our generalized perceptions of our Australian history and ethos. Now […]

Universalism: Will God Empty Hell?

By and others ⋅ May 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The following is an excerpt from my book LIVE! (Meditations and prayers on 22 Big Questions! In several Bible colleges I have asked the students to answer, without too much time to think, this question:  ¢â‚¬ËœDoes God love the devil? ¢â‚¬â„¢ Invariably the responses are equally divided between  ¢â‚¬ËœYes ¢â‚¬â„¢  ¢â‚¬ËœNo ¢â‚¬â„¢ and   ¢â‚¬ËœDon ¢â‚¬â„¢t know. ¢â‚¬â„¢ Of course, God is […]

Religious Freedom Threatened Around the World – May 2010

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

US panel faults Obama for lagging on religious freedom The U.S. government is not doing enough to protect religious freedoms abroad, the independent U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has said in its annual report to Congress and the White House. “The problems are above and beyond what we saw last year, and the administration […]

Indonesia: Threats to Pluralism

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Christian leader ‘alarmed’ about threats to Indonesia’s pluralism Life is becoming difficult and dangerous for Christians in Indonesia because of outside extremists, the head of a grouping of churches in the Muslim-majority nation has warned. “For centuries, Muslims and Christians have been living in harmony and have been coexisting peacefully, but agents (from outside) of […]

A HYMN FOR MODERN TIMES (How would you respond to her?)

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

A hymn for modern times Roz Kaveney guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 5 May 2010 13.57 BST The creeping limping feet of worn-out gods Disturb my sleep; the rotten little sods After my soul again, that much is clear. They want my love, or failing that my fear I used to be immune to all their chat but […]

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE (Walter Wink)

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

Author: Walter Wink Walter Wink is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in NYC. He has taught at numerous seminaries. He is a United Methodist minister, works for a Presbyterian seminary, and attends Quaker meetings. His books include Unmasking the Powers, Engaging the Powers, The Powers That Be, The Bible in Human Transformation, […]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [4]

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Previous article –  http://jmm.org.au/articles/23684.htm 3-9 Dialogue: The Way Forward There are many other dimensions of Islam we have not been able to touch. Here we examine what for me is the crux of the matter: How are Christians and Muslims supposed to ‘get along’? Let’s begin with an article by the conservative evangelical Muslim scholar, Dr […]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [3]

By and others ⋅ May 5, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Previous article: http://jmm.org.au/articles/23669.htm ISLAM: Is there a  ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically?  Some notes from my recent reading:   Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). **** 3-6 Jihad, War and Terror John Azumah, from a West African Muslim background, and currently Professor of Islam at […]

ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: TRUTH AND LOVE [2]

By and others ⋅ May 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Previous article…  http://jmm.org.au/articles/23664.htm ISLAM: Is there a  ¢â‚¬ËœChristian ¢â‚¬â„¢ Approach? A way of confronting the truth about Islam vis-a-vis Christianity irenically?  Some notes from my recent reading: People Like Us  ¢â‚¬“ How Arrogance is Dividing Islam and the West (Waleed Aly, 2007). Islam: Human Rights and Public Policy (ed. David Claydon, 2009). The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and […]

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