Apologetics
Historic Apology – and Mother England
Mother England as much to blame Geoffrey Robertson THE HISTORIC apology offered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the stolen generations was a crucial step for Australia, as novelist Richard Flanagan wrote this week. But it does not make amends for the role played by the British in the destruction and degradation of the Aboriginal […]
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
By Amiram Barkat Haaretz November 25, 2007 A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, […]
Why sorry is not enough
* An apology not before time Paul Austin February 21, 2008 PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and the Australian Parliament apologised to the Aboriginal stolen generations on February 13, 2008, and many Australians will never forget it. Premier Jeff Kennett and the Victorian Parliament apologised to the Aboriginal stolen generations on September 17, 1997, and many […]
Evangelical bishops differ on sexuality
By Mark Vernon 14 Feb 2008 Last week, an essay written by James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool and a leading evangelical, came to light in which he argued that the Bible includes remarkable accounts of same-sex relationships. Jones come as near you can, without actually saying it, to suggesting that the Bible sanctions committed […]
Two Good Quotes
“Even when they call us mad, when they call us trouble makers and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.” – Oscar Romero, Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered in March 1980 “Christianity has become part […]
Australia Says Sorry
Friday, February 15, 2008 Australia Says Sorry: “This is history, unna?” (by Jarrod McKenna) Black and white, we waited like I had waited in the mosh pit for Rage Against the Machine two weeks earlier. Yet the main feature on this day, a day that so many had been waiting for, working for, praying for, […]
Evolution is no threat to thoughtful religion
Evolution is no threat to thoughtful religion, say US churches Hundreds of US churches and many thousands of religious believers defied the stereotype that American Christianity is a cipher for anti-science creationism last week, as they marked Evolution Weekend with sermons and seminars on the consonance of spiritual and scientific exploration. Pastors, theological educators, scientists […]
We can use the market to tackle poverty
We can use the market to tackle poverty, says Nobel Prize winner By staff writers 16 Feb 2008 Harnessing the power of the market to help solve the problems of global poverty, hunger and inequality is both possible and necessary, a Nobel Peace Prize winner told an invited audience of specialists in London on Thursday […]
Truth is the big loser (ABC and Sharia Law)
Truth is the big loser in the chase for a sensational headline Maher Mughrabi February 12, 2008 AS A lifelong atheist and secularist, it’s discomfiting when you suddenly feel compelled to speak up in defence of a churchman’s right to discuss Islamic law. But the bedlam that has broken out over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s […]
Saying sorry is not enough
Saying sorry is not enough without rectifying the wrongs Mark Baker February 12, 2008 CAN the children stolen from their mothers in Australia ever forgive? Should survivors of the Holocaust forgive a repentant Germany for the murder of their families? Will Palestinians and Israelis one day forgive each other for the dispossession and wasted lives? […]
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