Apologetics
‘tree Of Life’ Makes Used Weapons Into Sign Of Hope
11 July 2005 In the wake of Mozambique’s long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists, sponsored by Christian aid, set up the Transforming Arms into Tools (TAE) project in the nation’s capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new […]
Bethlehem Besieged
Mitri Raheb. Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. Pp. 157. [1] The interface between religion and society in the modern state of Israel and the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza is particularly poignant just now. Because of the smallness of the geographical area and the intensity […]
The Historic Wronging of Palestine
By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 at 10:23 WRITTEN BY DAVID MORRISON The state of Israel came into existence 60 years ago on 14 May 1948. In the months before and after this declaration, Jewish forces drove around 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Over 500 villages were emptied of their Palestinian population and most […]
The Decline of the U. S. Empire
US hurts as economic crisis worsens Geoffrey Garrett October 13, 2008 12:00am FROZEN capital markets,impending global recession and governments and central bankers flailing around unable to do anything about it. It is no surprise that the history books are being scoured for clues as to what’s next for America and the world – including Australia. […]
Capitalism in crisis
* Scott Burchill * October 8, 2008 Free market failure. A jittery world is questioning the fundamental tenets of the economic system. AS THE world’s financial markets have unwound, three simultaneous crises have become apparent. The fallout goes beyond the immediate effect on either individuals or on the workings of the global economic system to […]
Monotheism, Polytheism, and Violence
*Sightings* 10/20/08 — Martin E. Marty “Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee,” Somini Sengupta’s front page story in the October 12th *New York Times*, is part of one day’s additions to my bulging clippings file on religiously-inspired terror, war, and violence, in the name of…(fill in the blank). The file bulges as I prepare […]
History belongs to the dreamers
Voices for Justice 2008 – ‘History belongs to the dreamers’ Last weekend my wife and I joined 230 other people in Canberra for the Micah Challenge annual Voices for Justice conference. This was not just a conference but a demonstration of faith in action. Voices for Justice has 2 main aims; firstly to seek more […]
The Children who are poor
” The Great American Novel” – Larry Norman i was born and raised an orphan in a land that once was free in a land that poured its love out on the moon and i grew up in the shadows of your silos filled with grain but you never helped to fill my empty spoon […]
Propaganda, Islam, and the Election
*Sightings* 10/16/08 — Shatha Almutawa This Ramadan, Muslims and Arabs across the United States have come face to face with questions of identity and portrayal, as 28 million copies of the movie *Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West* were distributed in fourteen swing states, in a blatant and large-scale misrepresentation of Muslims. The DVDs […]
Iraqi Christians flee Mosul
13th October 2008 Iraqi Christians flee Mosul as Islamic extremists launch campaign against them: “We left everything behind us. We took only our souls.” Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the city of Mosul in northern Iraq over the past week after Sunni Muslim extremists launched a deadly campaign to remove the Christian community from […]
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