Apologetics
Episcopal Church repudiates Doctrine of Discovery
Urges US adoption of UN Declaration By Gale Courey Toensing Jul 27, 2009 ANAHEIM, Calif. – In a first-of-its-kind action in the Christian world, the national Episcopal Church has passed a landmark resolution repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery and urging the U.S. government to endorse the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Organizers […]
Creationists’ ‘Proofs’
http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use A very interesting page! The following item from that link are “proofs” that I have repeatedly heard creationists quote. Nearly all the “proofs” listed on the page were quoted to me when I first got involved in showing up ignorance among creationists. This was prompted by a couple of students questioning me after my […]
Teaching of Evolution in Australian Schools
I’ve just finished reading Tom Frame’s latest book “Evolution in the Antipodes: Charles Darwin and Australia” (University of New South Wales Press, 2009). Tom Frame is Professor of Theology at Charles Sturt University, and an Anglican Bishop. It gives a brief account of evolution and the way it was accepted in Australia, including many of […]
Anglicans and Homosexuality
Anglicanism’s one-track mind The Anglican church is once again mired in a debate about sexuality. Why does it remain such an obsession? In Alan Bennett’s wonderfully funny 1970s farce Habeas Corpus, one of the characters, an archetypal Anglican vicar called – if memory serves – Canon Throbbing listens just a shade too intently to two […]
Resolution on climate change
Baptist World Alliance Resolution 4 – Climate Change 31 July 2009 The General Council of the Baptist World Alliance meeting in Ede, the Netherlands, July 27-August 1, 2009; Affirms the biblical teaching of respect for the Earth and everything in it, and the moral imperative to love one’s neighbors as oneself including those of future […]
Quakers endorse same-sex marriage
By staff writers 31 Jul 2009 Britain’s Quakers have this morning agreed to carry out same-sex marriages on the same basis as marriages for opposite-sex couples. The decision came after an intense week of debate and reflection at the Quakers’ Yearly Meeting in York. Emotions ran high in the discussions and several people of various […]
The Evolution of God
Preaching the Gospel of Maybe Sunday, August 2, 2009 By Robert Wright Little, Brown | 567 pp. $25.99 Thank God for agnostics. Over the past decade, our public conversation about religion has all too often degenerated into a food fight between the religious right and the secular left. Now comes journalist Robert Wright with a […]
Christianity and the Gun Culture
Sightings 7/9/09 Understanding the “Open Carry Celebration” — Joseph Laycock On June 27th––one week before the 4th of July––New Bethel Church in Louisville, Kentucky held an “Open Carry Celebration” in which visitors and parishioners were invited to bring their firearms to church. Firearms could not be loaded, but celebrants licensed to carry concealed weapons would […]
Where is God?
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives.” – Bono
Australia: a good website for resources
http://www.mobal.com/articles/10.html Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/
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