Apologetics
Capitalism: Another ‘God that Failed’
*Sightings* 10/13/08 Another ‘God that Failed’ — Martin E. Marty “The Fall: Original Sin & Free-Market Capitalism,” “After the Meltdown,” and “Government Is Not the Problem: Thirty Years of Bad Economic Policy,” by William Pfaff, Charles R. Morris and Jeff Madrick, in turn, highlight a single issue of the Jesuit magazine *America* (October 10). Their […]
Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Communique from A Common Word conference Posted On : October 15, 2008 4:50 PM ACNS: http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/10/15/ACNS4534 At a press conference today, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and His Excellency Dr Ali Gomaa, presented the communiqu © from ‘A Common Word’ conference, a meeting of leading Muslim and Christian clerics and scholars. The full text […]
Creationists’ vs. Evolutionists’ approaches
From one of Australia’s best researchers into creationism/ evolution, Dr Ken Smith: The textbooks refer to the *evidence* for evolution. Creationism, on the other hand, is full of rhetoric. If you take anything written in support of creationism and remove all the criticisms of anything which doesn’t fit with creationist thinking, you will be left […]
Making Belief Intelligible
A Christian Century Article: Making belief intelligible (Date unknown: but very relevant now – in 2008). Apologetics has largely lost its place in mainline seminary curricula. But the task of apologetics—making Christian belief intelligible— remains inescapable. If it isn’t done well, it will be done badly. The postmodern claim that all truth is relative to […]
McCain vs Obama
The 2008 US Presidential election will be over by the time most of you read this, but I post it here for its verbal brilliance anyway, whether you agree with it or not. Rowland. 13 October 2008 ***** This bulbous oblong of coiled rage came across as an appalling old waxwork Matthew Norman – Independent.co.uk […]
The Creation Museum
— Joseph Laycock Last summer I took a road-trip to Kentucky to see the new Creation Museum. The twenty-seven million dollar museum was established by the Biblical apologist movement Answers in Genesis (AiG). The movement teaches that the earth is only six thousand years old, and the museum sets itself to the task of explaining […]
The World’s Financial Systems
The soundness of the financial system in various nations, as ranked by the World Economic Forum. Canada was 1st followed by Sweden and Luxumbourg, with Australia 4th. RANKINGS 1. Canada 2. Sweden 3. Luxembourg 4. Australia 5. Denmark 6. Netherlands 7. Belgium 8. New Zealand 9. Ireland 10. Malta 11. Hong Kong 12. Finland 13. […]
Churches and Politics in Canada
Churches weigh in on 2008 election Sunday, October 5, 2008 By Dennis Gruending Some Canadian churches are posing earnest but polite questions for candidates and parties in the 2008 election campaign while religious conservatives are denouncing Stephen Harper for betraying them on abortion. The statements and election kits prepared by the churches fall into three […]
When is Kosher not Kosher?
*Sightings* 10/9/08 — Nora Rubel In my introductory Judaism course, the most common questions my students have relate to confusion over dietary laws. Many are surprised to learn that the actual definition of *kosher* has nothing to do with food. The slang use of the term (“Something’s not kosher here”) is actually correct. Kosher meat […]
A Shattering moment in America’s fall from power
The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is over ***** Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here […]
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