Apologetics
What Wilders Would Have Said If the UK Allowed Free Speech
GEERT WILDERS: ISLAMOPHOBE, OR IS SOME OF THIS PERHAPS A REALITY WE’RE AFRAID TO FACE? A personal note: On most matters political/ideological I’m left of centre. But not this one. It’s a pity Wilders ‘leads with his chin’ and is not more irenic in his approach, with at least an acknowledgement of Islamic/Arabic contributions to […]
Muslims, Christians and World Peace
Accentuate the positive: Dr Muqtedar Khan’s New Year Recipe for World Peace By Mark Durie Friday 1 January, 2010. Dr Muqtedar Khan has written a recent opinion piece, (‘Muhammad’s promise to Christians’, December 30, 2009), calling upon Christians and Muslims to ‘tell and retell positive stories’ about each other, and ‘abstain from mutual demonization’. Pointing […]
Homosexuality, Ethics & Faith: Standing with the Outcast
Jan 02, 2010 Sexuality and the Church are generally mutually exclusive, no other area of debate cries taboo within Christendom as does sexuality, in particular homosexuality. In this essay I have attempted to approach the issue of homosexuality and the Church objectively rather than subjectively. I have no wish to state who is right or […]
How High Will the Seas Go in a Warmer World?
From TIME Magazine, 12/18/09: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1948840,00.html By Michael D. Lemonick Even as negotiators scramble to salvage an agreement at the foundering Copenhagen climate talks, a new study in this week’s issue of Nature shows that the consequences of inaction on reducing emissions could be more severe than anyone thought. By looking back about 125,000 years, to […]
Should Christians get involved in interfaith dialogue?
(Picked up in a Google search): Dec 5th, 2009 by Rodney Olsen. Respected theologian, speaker, author and director of John Mark Ministries, Rev Dr Rowland Croucher turns 72 today. He’s an amazing guy who has been sharing his faith through various means for many years. He speaks to hundreds of thousands of people online each […]
Christians in (Australian) Politics
From a Facebook friend: “We don’t need more Christian politicians, but we need more Christian politicians. I am disappointed that, when Christians get into politics, there is little evidence of a Christian agenda in terms of doing justice and loving covenant faithfulness. I am sure that this is what leads people to believe that Christian […]
The Authority of the State
From a Facebook friend: “On the topic of authority coming from God (Romans 13), I think the misuse of this verse was sharply dealt with in 1649. God gives authority, but how it is used is a different question! Remember that Peter and John refused to acknowledge the authority of the Sanhedrin when it thought […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter Editorial Comment
(A conservative Christian appraisal of some current trends) AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER 1st January 2010 EDITORIAL COMMENT THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING The commencement of a New Year is always an exciting time providing as it does an opportunity for a measure of new beginnings. Will 2010 however bring anything new or will it be simply […]
Major Nidal M. Hasan’s Jihad Seminar Explained
by Mark Durie These are notes on Major Hasan’s seminar on ‘The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.’ An earlier posting surveyed some features of the seminar. These notes, put together while Pentagon and Senate investigations into the Fort Hoot shootings are still underway, go through the Major Hasan’s […]
Animal Cruelty
Crush Videos, the Human Sacrifice Channel, and Other Religious Horribles — Jeremy Biles A previously obscure sect of sexual fetishism with enigmatic religious dimensions was exposed to the full light of the media last week, as the Supreme Court began deliberations on U.S. vs. Stevens. The case centers on a 1999 statute making it illegal […]
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