Apologetics
The Current Economic Crisis – in Simple English
Crikey: Bede Doherty (yesterday, comments ) asked: “Is it possible for someone to please explain in simple English with simple examples how this crisis came to be?” Here at Crikey, we like to help. So we bring you without further ado, the first (and possibly last) episode of the Wall Street crisis explained. The first […]
How much do we know about Indonesia?
What do Aussies really know about Indonesia? Irfan Yusuf October 06, 2008 12:00am INDONESIA is our closest neighbour. It also happens to be the largest Muslim-majority state in the world. Yet just how much do Australians know about Indonesia? At one time Indonesian was almost as commonly taught in high schools as French and German. […]
Craig Sorley: eco-evangelist
Craig Sorley By STEPHAN FARIS Craig Sorley’s conversion to environmentalism came after doctors removed a tumor from his brain. It was 1989 and Sorley was a student at a Christian college in St. Paul, Minn. As he recuperated, Sorley says he “sensed a very clear call” to find out what Christians were doing to solve […]
Grace isn’t fair
Hi Rowland, Below is a piece that appeared in last Sunday’s Age on grace. It’s entitled ‘Grace isn’t fair’. Nils I’ve been realising recently how much I try to impress God. I know I can’t make God love me any more or any less than he already does, but still I try to impress him. […]
Christian Populism, Then and Now
*Sightings* 10/2/08 — Robert S. McElvaine Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin may seem at first glance to have much in common with Christian populist William Jennings Bryan: Both present themselves as representatives of the Common Citizen and claim to believe that everything in the Bible is literally true. But is this populism — or this Christianity […]
Repent, the End is Near! (The financial collapse)
************************************************* SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/C7LWub11OSjl/ ************************************************* ================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= These hundreds are engaged in conspiratorial actions against Palestinians and the security forces. It’s a very grave phenomenon. This is harming our ability to carry out security missions in the territories. We have to divert our efforts […]
Iranian Parliament provisionally approves death penalty for leaving Islam
The Iranian Parliament has given provisional approval, by a majority of 196 to seven, to a bill that mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam. Until now Iranian judges could impose the death penalty in such cases only on the basis of Islamic law and /fatwas, /not on the basis of Iranian law. The […]
Church and State
No Religious Test Harry T. Cook 10/03/08 Two hundred twenty one years and 16 days ago a convention in Philadelphia adopted the first seven articles of the U.S. Constitution, thus setting this newly independent nation upon a path down which most of the world’s people at that time could scarcely dream of walking, and which […]
Bailing out the rich
From a friend: ‘The world can’t find $18 billion to meet its obligations to the poor in a budget of just over $100 billion spent on aid around the world, yet the US government can consider $750 billion to bail out the rich! It was Andrew Young who said “Nothing is illegal if one hundred […]
Education for All
Archbishop of York – Calls for Joint Action to Achieve “Education For All” at UN Emergency Summit Posted On : September 26, 2008 3:51 PM ACNS: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2008/9/26/ACNS4528 The Archbishop of York launched the “Education For All” initiative during a session of the UN’s emergency summit on Millennium Development Goals yesterday. Speaking in New York alongside […]
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