Apologetics
Christmas Urban Legends
Hi friends Every year seems to produce a crop of urban legends about Christmas, but this year’s ones are the weirdest of the lot: http://methodius.blogspot.com/2008/12/urban-legends-about-christmas.html
Church and state could be split, says Williams
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has surprisingly reignited the row over the separation of church and the British state by saying it is “not the end of the world” if the established church were to disappear. Rowan Williams, the most senior figure in the Church of England, argues there is a “certain integrity” to a church […]
Sorrows of Iraqi Christians
Sins and Sorrows Grow in Mosul For Iraq’s Christians, a fearful Christmas amid shootings and a worsening humanitarian crisis. It was already late on Christmas Day, 2005, in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, when my friend Luqman Khadir, an ethnic Kurd and non-practicing Muslim, passed along a surprising invitation. A fellow Kurd, one of […]
Fighting Terrorism
Sightings *12/15/08 The Mimetic Principle — Martin E. Marty “The mimetic principle,” most developed by Ren © Girard, today captures the attention of psychologists, literary critics, war-and-peace makers, and experts in many disciplines. It builds on the desires and behavior of humans who see something they and their rivals both want. As they follow up, the […]
Economics and the Current Financial Crisis
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly has asked theologians, ethicists, and others to comment on the current financial crisis: The first thing that becomes apparent in times like this is how imaginary the economy is. Not imaginary in the sense of fake, necessarily, but in the sense of the way economic realities depend on how reality is […]
Palestine
For many of us, our image of Bethlehem is a peaceful little rural/pastoral village, awash with Shepards and sheep. The Bethlehem that we imagine is the one we see on the front of Christmas cards or the one we read about in the bible. Today, however, the real Bethlehem is very different. While it is […]
Stopping Internet Porn
A church leader wrote (December 2008): “Getup” (an ISP lobby group) has launched an online petition opposing the filtering (and supporting the porn industry and some in the IT industry who want to scuttle the government’s plans to clean up the internet). Nathan responded: For what it is worth, I reckon [this] email here is […]
Gay Marriage (Newsweek)
GAY MARRIAGE Our Mutual Joy Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side. By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK Published Dec 6, 2008 From the magazine issue dated Dec 15, 2008 Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and […]
God vs the multiverse?
Why it’s not as simple as God vs the multiverse * 04 December 2008 by Amanda Gefter WHAT would you rather believe in, God or the multiverse? It sounds like an instance of cosmic apples and oranges, but increasingly we are being told it’s a choice we must make. Take the dialogue earlier this year […]
Human Rights
Our fundamental human rights can’t be taken for granted Steven Freeland Sixty years on, there remains much to do to ensure people’s protection. TODAY marks the 60th anniversary of the “birth” of modern international human rights law — the adoption by the UN general assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which remains one […]
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