Apologetics
Raining on the Guy’s Parade (prayer)
(A very liberal ‘Christian’ view of prayer, which I believe, though well-written is heretical! Rowland). The Religion Works August 24, 2008 Raining on the Guy’s Parade Harry T. Cook By Harry T. Cook Today across our metropolitan area, people are being urged to offer up prayers for the salvation of the local and national economies. […]
The Cost of Giving: Poverty, Aid, Development
The Cost of Giving Thursday, Aug. 07, 2008 By ALEX PERRY Aid to the developing world is one of those things whose motives have been mixed and muddled. In the age of empire, imperial powers built up infrastructure to make their colonies more productive and get primary goods quickly to market: railways, ports and canals […]
Abortion: Pro and Con
Giving women total control * Roger Short, Lachlan De Crespigny and Julian Savulescu * August 15, 2008 Every birth should be a wanted birth. That must be the aim in Victoria. AUSTRALIA in general and Victoria in particular have lagged far behind the rest of the developed world in their attitude to abortion. The United […]
Loneliness of the distant farmers wife
Published by jennib at August 3, 2008 RUTH SNELLEMAN Life on a farm doesn’t often allow for visitors. The responsibility of raising children, maintaining a house and hoping for a successful crop leaves women little time for friendships. Most farming houses have one room for visitors. In this one room, the heater is allowed on. […]
Count Me Out (A Liberal View of Anglicans and Homosexuality)
Ethics & Public Policy Essays by Harry T. Cook August 15, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To read this weekend’s essay, “Count Me Out,” scroll down. Recently, the bishops of what’s left of the Anglican Communion met in solemn session for three weeks in England and brought forth a mouse. Instead of ignoring their fundamentalist counterparts’ ranting and […]
Hunger in the Ancient World
Heard in a talk this last week: ‘80% in the ancient world lived on 900 calories a day – less than the Atkins Diet…’
Time to Move on (Race)
Ethics & Public Policy Essays by Harry T. Cook August 8, 2008 I am pleased to introduce a long-time reader of this web site and its offerings as this weekend’s guest essayist. He is Dewey Barton, M.D. – a clear-thinking public citizen who keeps current on politics and has no patience for shoddy thinking. Harry […]
Ugliness and Beauty in the City
Grant White, an Orthodox scholar and lecturer at the University of Joensuu in Finland: “I wonder sometimes if actually the city doesn’t become the new ascetic battleground for Christians in that it presents us with all the challenges of loving one’s neighbour in the 21st century. You encounter the poor, you encounter great ugliness in […]
Christian Olympians ‘witnessing’ Christ
(From Mark Tronson): Press Service International An E-functionary of Well-Being Australia Inc. ABN 27 129 971 736 6 August 2008 Press Release With the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony only two days away, Australian Baptist minister of 31 years Mark Tronson, who has assisted the IOC in drafting a protocol for Olympic Village ‘Religious Services’ since […]
Married priests
The site for the Diocese of New Hampshire has Gene Robinson reporting back re Lambeth 2008: http://www.canterburytalesfromthefringe.blogspot.com/ I read this response somewhere. Interesting: Make of it what you will. My own feelings about him remain as mixed as ever…reverting once again to the “Thomas Merton analogy”. Merton was given the option of remaining in a […]
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