Apologetics
Faith school fakers
Tory leader doesn’t condemn faith school fakers By staff writers 24 Jan 2008 Tory leader David Cameron has refused to condemn parents who pretend that they have Christian beliefs in order to win places in church schools. His comments came in an interview for the Times newspaper. Almost a quarter of parents in London would […]
Islam: two contrasting views
Here are two very contrasting expressions of Islam which came into my inbox yesterday (24.1.08) * the first from ANS & Religion Today regarding Indonesia, * the second from the middle east by Moshe Sharon who is Professor Emeritus of Islamic History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. STUDY: INDONESIAN MUSLIMS GENERALLY TOLERANT OF DIVERSITY […]
Islam: A brief Overview…
ISLAM a brief overview for the layman by Mark Tronson Background Mahomet or Muhammad, better known in the west as Mohammed was born in 570. His birth place was Mecca in Arabia. He claimed descent from the family of Hashem and the tribe of Koreish, which in their tradition had been entrusted with a famous […]
A Consistent Biblical Approach to (homo)sexuality
Dr. Keith Dyer (Professor of New Testament, Whitley College, University of Melbourne) Placing Bible and homosexuality together in the one sentence always provokes questions. Some questioners are genuinely puzzled, some are angry: Why do we continue to ask what the Bible says about homosexuality when the few verses that do seem to refer to it […]
Iraq: Unjust War (Andrew Greeley)
*Sightings* 1/21/08 Unjust War — Martin E. Marty *A Stupid, Unjust, and Criminal War: Iraq 2001-2007* by priest, sociologist, novelist, and columnist Andrew Greeley is a collection of 121 columns dating back to 2001, in their original form. As the title suggests, the columns are not long on nuance. They have going for them guts, […]
A Face for Yulce
I was told to get into the vehicle—we were going to find a child who was a burn victim. Esther Scarborough, the IFC Medical Staff Director, drove down the side roads to the village of Paca (Pacha) just south of Tobelo in North Maluku. She drove with abandon and paid little attention to the road. […]
Platypus more ancient than thought
Tuesday Jan 22 06:45 AEDT Specimens from an ancient platypus have revealed the Australian mammal is tens of millions of years older than previously thought. A new analysis of jawbone specimens dug up at Flat Rocks, near Inverloch in Victoria, shows the platypus family dates back at least 112 million years, Fairfax reported. Previous studies […]
Martin Niemoller’s haunting words
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, but I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they […]
Holocaust in the U K curriculum
In another article on this website, there’s a reference to the Holocaust being removed from school curricula in the UK so as not to offend Muslims… Someone questioned this. Another friend contacted a lecturer in contemporary culture in the UK to clarify. Here is his reply: ‘I hadn’t heard anything about this, so did some […]
Muslim
7th January 2008 Barnabas Fund revised response to Muslim “Open Letter and Call” Since the publication of “An Open Letter and Call from Muslim Religious Leaders” on 13 October 2007 [link] , the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University, has issued a response entitled “Loving God and Neighbor Together” [link] in which they […]
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