Apologetics
Letter from the church in Jos Nigeria
A letter from the church in Jos Nigeria 21 January 2010 Dear Friends, Peace and greetings. Everyone is asking: Why? Why are Muslims and Christians unable to live together in peace on the Jos Plateau? Why is there a continuing recurrence of violence? These are questions people in Nigeria and journalists from all over the […]
Drug Prohibition Doesn’t Work?
Drug prohibition doesn’t work – so what do we do next? CHRIS MIDDENDORP Jan 7 2010 It’s not Suzanne’s fault that she became addicted to heroin at 16. For a while it numbed the emotional pain of the abuse she suffered as a ward of the state. Four years later, she uses heroin three times […]
Haiti and the ‘Pact with the Devil’
*Sightings* 1/18/10 True Stories — Martin E. Marty You know the old joke: When someone absolutely diabolical died, the rabbi asked if anyone wanted to say anything about him at the funeral. No one dared, as there was nothing nice to say. Eventually one stood up and said, “His brother was even worse.” Was anyone […]
The World’s indigenous peoples
Friday, 15 January 2010 Commissioner Calma welcomes first UN publication on the state of the world ¯ ¿ ½s indigenous peoples Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, today welcomed the launch of the United Nation ¯ ¿ ½s first report on The State of the World ¯ ¿ ½s Indigenous Peoples. The report highlights how indigenous communities all over the […]
Euthanasia
The burden borne by the living PETER SINGER December 31, 2009 PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s Administration spent much of 2009 preoccupied domestically with the political fight over extending health insurance to the tens of millions of Americans who have none. People living in other industrialised countries find this difficult to understand. They have a right to […]
Arabs and the Reality of Israel
Peace will elude us until Arab world accepts the reality of Israel PEOPLE frequently blame individual aspects of the Arab-Israel conflict for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace. But applying such selective moral outrage, as did Paul Heywood-Smith and Bassam Dally in last week’s Inquirer, ignores the elephant in the room. This elephant isn’t Israeli settlements. […]
The Nag Hammadi massacre and the Collective Character of the dhimma
21 January 2010 The recent shooting of Copts as they filed out from Church on January 6th in Nag Hammadi was allegedly triggered by accusations that a Coptic youth had violated a Muslim girl. What is striking about the circumstances of this attack and the allegation associated with it, is the mismatch between the collective […]
Irish Law on Blasphemy (Bishop Spong)
Would you comment on the recently passed law in Ireland on blasphemy? Dear Sally and Jon: The recently passed law in Ireland against blasphemy, which threatens $35,000 fines for any person who “publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion thereby causing outrage among […]
O Lucky Man (Tsutomu Yamaguchi)
Note from Rowland: I don’t like many of Christopher Hitchens’ ideas or his crudity/irreverence, but I like his style! He’s nothing if not entertaining. ***** O Lucky Man By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 “Oh God! There goes another sonofabitch.” —Ram Lutchman in Shiva Naipaul’s Fireflies Last week brought us news of the […]
Priest Says it’s O K to steal
New morality is a steal BARNEY ZWARTZ January 12, 2010 In 1631, England’s royal printers reprinted the Bible but somehow omitted the ”not” in Exodus 20:14, the seventh commandment concerning adultery. An amusing mistake for everyone but the printers, who were fined £300 and lost their licence, while the archbishop of Canterbury complained about declining […]
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