Apologetics
Adoption Stories
7 April 2008 Dear Friends, I have been overwhelmed by the response to my email last month which sought people’s adoption stories, happy or sad. I have now received over 50 accounts from all over Australia – relinquishing mums, adopted children and adoptive parents. Thank you – and thank you to those who passed on […]
Eliminating defamation of Islam
Subj: OIC: Eliminating “defamation” of Islam. OIC: ELIMINATING “DEFAMATION” OF ISLAM In December 2005 the Heads of State and Government at the Organisation of Islamic Conference’s 3rd Extraordinary Summit in Makkah adopted a “Ten Year Program of Action” to address the most “prominent challenges facing the Muslim world today”. Through the Ten Year Program of […]
The Mustard seed in global strategy
By Spengler A self-described revolution in world affairs has begun in the heart of one man. He is the Italian journalist and author Magdi Cristiano Allam, whom Pope Benedict XVI baptized during the Easter Vigil at St Peter’s. Allam’s renunciation of Islam as a religion of violence and his embrace of Christianity denotes the point […]
Religion and the environment
Where being green goes beyond pieties Ben Cubby Environment Reporter March 28, 2008. Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/where-being-green-goes-beyond-pieties/2008/03/27/1206207300940.html accessed March 28th 2008. GOD is green, and always has been, according to a parish in southern Sydney. The day after Earth Hour last year, parishioners at St Mark’s Anglican Church in South Hurstville began drawing up plans […]
The Marketplace of Faith
Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 By JACKSON DYKMAN Americans love to shop, even for religion. More than 40% of U.S. adults have changed their faith since childhood, many opting for no faith at all. That’s the key finding of a major study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which surveyed 35,000 people in […]
Aboriginal Policy
Forming indigenous policy without representation will fail John Chesterman March 4, 2008 KEVIN Rudd’s moving apology to the stolen generations laid to rest one piece of unfinished business in indigenous affairs. But as the Prime Minister acknowledged, this is just one step in the search for a new relationship between indigenous people and the state. […]
Healing the Wounds of Race
Hearts & Minds by Jim Wallis ================================================= It has simmered throughout this campaign, and now race has exploded into the center of the media debate about the presidential race. Just when a black political leader is calling us all to a new level of responsibility, hope, and unity, the old and divisive rhetoric of race […]
Kyrie Eleison
http://paceebene.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/kyrie-eleison/ As the Iraq War reaches its fifth anniversary today, it is time for the church to repent. It is true that the church was opposed to the war from the outset. With an almost unanimous voice, church leaders and ordinary Christians said ‘no’ in loud and clear voices. We declared it to be an […]
Christian mental health care: positively medieval
From an online friend: Here’s a real horror story: a place called Mercy Ministries claimed to offer psychiatric help to people in Australia, and what they offered instead was nightmarish religious discipline and doctrine. There’s something subtle in there, too, that ought to make us ashamed: the Australian reporter calls it an “American-style ministry”. Isn’t […]
Don’t Trade Lives this Easter
As we approach Easter and remember the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, we are reminded again of the consumerist madness of the sale of untold amounts of chocolate that we ‘must’ buy for our family and children. Whilst there is something I like about the idea of giving at times like Christmas and […]
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