Apologetics
Religion’s place in the public square
July 07, 2009 Kevin Rudd’s audience with the Pope should be welcomed THE peculiar hostility among sections of the media, and on blogsites, over Kevin Rudd’s audience with Pope Benedict XVI this week reflects a narrow world view. As he prepares to meet the Pope, who has recently signed his third encyclical, Charity in Truth […]
Selfishness
Been thinking about this today (from a UK preacher’s journal): ‘There was a time in the early 19th century when all the slaves in the southern U.S. could have been redeemed for about 3 million pounds. But greed won and the moment passed. Fifty years later it cost hundreds of millions of pounds and thousands […]
Same-sex Marriage
[I’m posting this here, not because it’s the last word – it certainly isn’t – nor because I agree with it totally (the author doesn’t offer too many positive alternatives), but to provide a well-written all-too-brief conservative view of the subject. Those who know me have to live with my strange idea that a mature […]
Islam Gains Ground in Europe
A Turning Tide in Europe as Islam Gains Ground By DWIGHT GARNER Published: July 29, 2009 Christopher Caldwell’s “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West” is a hot book presented under a cool, scholarly title. To observe that Mr. Caldwell’s rhetoric is “hot” is not to say that it is aggrieved […]
Richard Dawkins under fire
Ready, aim, miss Jul 23rd 2009 From The Economist print edition The Guardian The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin’s Legacy. By Fern Elsdon-Baker. Icon Books; 240 pages; £8.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk IN THE year of Charles Darwin’s double anniversary—200 years since his birth and 150 since the publication of his masterwork, “On the […]
Anglican Church may have ‘two track’ structure
By MEERA SELVA, Associated Press Writer Meera Selva, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jul 27, 2009 LONDON – The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a “two track” system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy and same-sex unions, the Archbishop of Canterbury said Monday in a bid to keep the […]
Rick Warren and the poor
Warren, millionaire minister and bestselling author: “To whom much is given, much is required.” It was before dawn in California, and the always restless Rick Warren was at work on his home computer, exchanging e-mails with some of the 250,000 pastors in his vast network around the world. Suddenly a message from a minister in […]
Fundamentalists and Thermodynamics
Many fundamentalists want to speak/write about issues which are far from religious in nature. Usually they have no expertise in these areas, and their words do little more than encourage people to ignore them. One area in which they repeatedly make mistakes is science. We are accustomed to errors when they try to oppose evolution […]
Homosexuality: Beware of Easy Answers
Gays—No Easy Answers; A Christian Response Acts 8:26-40 By C. David Hess American Baptists and other mainline denominations are deeply divided over the question of what is the appropriate stance the church should take toward gays in our midst. I think it important to share with you my interim reflections on the matter. The first […]
Jimmy Carter and the Elders
Sightings 7/20/09 — Martin E. Marty Two years ago last weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa, twelve senior statespersons met to form a group called, yes, the Elders. Their founding date, July 18, 2007, may not go down in history as a turning-point, but—who knows?—it may well at least represent a contribution to a turned world. […]
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