Apologetics
Israel’s Anniversary
THURS 8 MAY 2008 Christian leaders mark Israel’s anniversary with ‘just peace’ call ………… PRESS RELEASE ….. London, UK – THURS MAY 8, 2008 Over 140 Christian leaders have made a unified call for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel. Their declaration is […]
Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks – a Response
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2008/05/islam_isnt_islamism.html
Black Liberation Theology and Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Professor Dwight Hopkins answers questions about the black church, black liberation theology, and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Interview by Ansley Roan Dr. Dwight Hopkins is a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of many books on theology, and his latest is “Being Human: Race, Culture and Religion.” […]
The Global Food Crisis
Global Food Crisis May 2, 2008 Related Reading: GRACE AT THE TABLE: ENDING HUNGER IN GOD’S WORLD by David Beckmann and Arthur Simon WORLD HUNGER AND MORALITY edited by William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette ETHICS, HUNGER, AND GLOBALIZATION edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Peter Sandoe THE EUCHARIST AND THE HUNGER OF THE WORLD by Monica […]
Robert Mugabe and Malcolm Fraser
IT is hard to know exactly how much responsibility Malcolm Fraser bears for the installation of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, but it is generally agreed that he played an important role. Fraser’s 1987 biographer Philip Ayres wrote: “The centrality of Fraser’s part in the process leading to Zimbabwe’s independence is indisputable. All the major African […]
Same sex must mean same rights
Rodney Croome May 1, 2008 Gays and lesbians have been waiting a long time for legal recognition of their relationships. The Government’s reforms are welcome, but more needs to be done, writes Rodney Croome. IMAGINE risking your life for your country in the armed services, only to discover that if you die your partner will […]
The Saudis’ Secret Agenda
Saudis’ secret agenda http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23634809-28737,00.html Richard Kerbaj and Stuart Rintoul | May 03, 2008 THE cheque from the Saudi Government for $360,000 was enclosed in an envelope. It was a donation, a gift, a part payment to subsidise the construction of a building that would become Sydney’s Muslim heartbeat: Lakemba mosque. More than 35 years after […]
Bill Moyers on Jeremiah Wright
May 2, 2008 *BILL MOYERS:*Welcome to the Journal. I once asked a reporter back from Vietnam, “Who’s telling the truth over there?” “Everyone, he said. “Everyone sees what’s happening through the lens of their own experience.” That’s how people see Jeremiah Wright. In my conversation with him on this broadcast a week ago and in […]
Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
Posted May 5, 2008 Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world’s most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam. Wilders, who lives under perpetual armed guard due to death threats, recently released a 15 minute film entitled Fitna (“strife” in Arabic) over […]
Should Churches Pay Tax?
Taxpayers’ sacrifice to the churches * Nick Renton * May 6, 2008 It is quite immoral for taxes to be extracted compulsorily from citizens to subsidise extensive concessions for religious bodies. OUR constitution makes it clear Australia is to be a secular society. In particular, section 116 provides that “The Commonwealth shall not make any […]
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