Apologetics
Religion and the State
(From my radical liberal Episcopal friend Harry Cook): Now That’s the Idea By Harry T. Cook 5/08/09 Thomas Jefferson would be proud. So would H.L. Mencken. So would today’s faithful watchmen upon the wall guarding our civil liberties. You’d wish the object of such pride might be, say, in Joplin, Missouri, or in Jackson, Mississippi, […]
Death, Dying And Being Religious
Some of the most interesting religious news doesn’t appear in the religious media. Had the political,left of centre,Mother Jones,not crossed my desk last week, I would have missed,”The Purpose Driven Wife”,(Kathryn Joyce, 5.3.09), a most enlightening critique of “biblical womanhood”. However, it was the recent issue of The Economist,(19.3.09),which caused this three score years and […]
Varieties of Intolerance: Religious and Secular
by Cardinal George Pell Let me begin with two tales of intolerance. On November 4 last year, the day Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, California and two other states also voted to amend their constitutions to define marriage as between a man and a woman only. This brought to 29 the […]
Unnatural Acts
Sightings 5/7/09 — Melissa Conroy On May 4, 2009 the BBC’s top stories included the headline “‘Gay man’ disinterred in Senegal.” The article told how a gay man died and was buried in a Muslim cemetery, only to be disinterred twice. In the first instance his body was left outside the grave, and in the […]
40 Million Nonbelievers in America?
40 Million Nonbelievers in America? The Secret Is Almost Out By Ronald Aronson, Religion Dispatches. Posted May 5, 2009. Secularists have very quietly become one of America’s largest minorities — how long before they use their power? As reported recently in the New York Times, a South Carolina chapter of Habitat for Humanity prohibited a […]
Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims
(This article is a bit dated now, but the phenomenon wouldn’t be). By Jonathan Wynne-Jones 18 Apr 2008 The Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester Bishop Nazir-Ali warns that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character Islamic extremists have created “no-go” areas across Britain where it is too dangerous […]
Muslim Demographics
A short but important video on Muslim demographics, and how our world is quickly changing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU ‘The world is changing: it’s time to wake up!’ It’s alarmist, yes, but what does it mean? Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ Justice for Dawn Rowan – http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/
Melbourne Churches
(Here’s a major report on the churches in my home-city, Melbourne, with a slight emphasis on us Baptists. Rowland). All Melbourne Matters: Research of the Whole Church in Melbourne for the Future of the Church and the City Compiled by Philip Hughes and Stephen Reid. Christian Research Association and Transforming Melbourne, 2009. Reviewed by Darren […]
The Homeless
Sister Mary Scullion – “In 1976, a young Philadelphia nun named Sister Mary Scullion began her work as an advocate for the homeless, driven by a personal conviction that “none of us are home until all of us are home.”
Population Changes in Europe
*Sightings* 4/27/09 — Martin E. Marty In hours I’ll be boarding a plane for secular Europe, in particular secular France, and most particularly, secular Paris. Mixing business and pleasure, I’ll be doing some accidental research, namely, observing and taking mental notes on areas familiar to me from past scholarship. One of the delights of travel […]
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