Apologetics
Obama at Buchenwald (Brilliant!)
Friday, June 5, 2009 Obama Reflects on Capacity for Good and Evil in Buchenwald Speech Chancellor Merkel and I have just finished our tour here at Buchenwald. I want to thank Dr. Volkhard Knigge, who gave an outstanding account of what we were witnessing. I am particularly grateful to be accompanied by my friend Elie […]
Islam in Australia
Ms Sally Neighbour Re: No lessons here, The Australian, 3/6/09 The issues raised by the rejection of an Islamic school at Camden require much deeper consideration. The value, and practical consequences, of the education that would be provided through such a school needs to be better understood both by the general community and by Muslims. […]
Equal Opportunity Laws
Sunday, May 24, 2009 Exemptions to Equal Opportunity Laws A committee of the Victorian parliament is currently conducting a review of ‘exceptions and exemptions’ to Victorian Equal Opportunity laws. The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee has produced an Options Paper, outlining ways in which the laws could be revised. The issues relating to religious […]
Changes to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1995
Options for changing exceptions and exemptions Briefing Notes for Victorian Church Leaders by Mark Durie The Victorian Parliament, through its ‘Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee’ (SARC), has prepared a set of options for modifying Victoria’s Equal Opportunity law. Some of these options, if implemented, could have highly significant implications for how churches and other […]
Darwin’s last words
No, not Darwin’s legendary death-bed conversion to Christianity and confession the evolution is wrong: this legend is no longer prominent in even creationist circles. The last sentence in the final edition of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” reads: There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed […]
Human Rights Legislation
The Uniting Church in Australia is the only Australian church to officially support the development of federal human rights legislation IT’S OKAY FOR CHRISTIANS TO SUPPORT A HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 25 May 2009 I am a Christian and like many other Christians I support the development of federal human rights legislation. I sincerely hope that […]
Contemporary Islam
This extract from a book written by Dr Peter Hammond is quite enlightening, more especially so in light of well publicised developments worldwide of growing discord between, on the one hand, basically tolerant democratic societies and, on the other hand, their Muslim residents or immigrants. It makes for sobering reading. ____________________________________________________________ Islam is not a […]
Science and Faith
Put bluntly, science doesn’t deny the existence of supernatural entities, nor does science affirm their existence. Since science is limited to things which can be observed by our physical senses, aided by instruments where appropriate, it simply cannot investigate anything outside the natural world. See my current signature file (the “random” choice my login script […]
Pentecostal and Evangelical gay and lesbian Christians (ABC radio discussion)
Pentecostal and Evangelical gay and lesbian Christians 15/03/2009 Last week Sydney played host once again to the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and as per usual it stirred some conversation in the media. What has become noticeable over the years of the event is the way in which that conversation has turned from suspicion […]
The Evangelical Right
Is The Evangelical Right Really Turning on Itself? Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet at 1:26 PM on April 6, 2009. I’m a bit late looking at this piece from Friday’s Washington Post by conservative columnist Kathleen Parker (Parker, if you’ll recall, is a smarter-than-average right-winger who was absolutely excoriated by her National Review readers for […]
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