Apologetics
Australia’s Foreign Aid
* AUSTRALIA 14th OUT OF 23 IN HUMANITARIAN AID RANKING ———————————————– AUSTRALIA 14th OUT OF 23 IN HUMANITARIAN AID RANKING Three Nordic countries have the world’s best humanitarian aid practices, according to a new ranking which puts Australia 14th out of 23 in a league table of developed-world humanitarian giving. The Humanitarian Response Index – […]
Climate Change
Here is a first hand report on what happened in Bali last week, forwarded through Clive Hamilton, an environmental economist,and the author of “Scorcher:The Dirty Politics of Climate Change”. The earth moves in Bali “The world has changed in the last hours.” These words were texted to me from Nusa Dua on Saturday evening by […]
On Global Warming (Martin Marty)
*Sightings* 12/17/07 On Global Warming — Martin E. Marty The images and prophecies connected with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the biblical book of Revelation seem horrifying enough. But in a “you-ain’t-seen-nothing-yet” spirit, Philip Jenkins in December 10th’s *New Republic *warns of disastrous implications for religious conflict after studying the results of climate-modeling […]
The New Atheism
God debates December 12, 2007 The so-called new atheism is little more than a step backwards to the old-fashioned atheism John Habgood Tina Beattie THE NEW ATHEISTS John C. Lennox GOD’S UNDERTAKER Hans K ¼ng THE BEGINNING OF ALL THINGS John Polkinghorne FROM PHYSICIST TO PRIEST, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY The so-called new atheism turns out to be […]
Australian former ex-gay leader Kim Bret tells her story
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. (Sent by a friend in the U.S.) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:17:23 +1100 Faith Healer Kim Brett was […]
The Bertrand Russell of Islam
December 12, 2007 BY MICHAEL WEISS December 12, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/67922 As of last April, the late Edward Said’s “Orientalism,” originally published in 1978, was no. 2 on the best-seller list in Cairo. No. 1was a book arguing that Saddam Hussein hadn’t really been executed — all cell phone video evidence to the contrary, the […]
Christmas and the Aborigines
No Room At The Inn An Open Letter to the Australian Nation from the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia At this time of the year, as we turn our minds to Christmas and reflect on the year that was (and what a year it […]
Christianity and Islam: How Common is the Ground? (A Conservative View)
Christianity and Islam: How Common is the Ground? Bob Burney As this column goes to press, hundreds of presumably Muslim protestors in Sudan are shouting for the execution of a British school teacher. Her offense? Insulting Islam because her class of 7-year-olds named a teddy bear Muhammed. According to the New York Times report: The […]
Meganumbers
*Sightings *12/10/07 — Martin E. Marty *WORLD* magazine represents political-religious conservatism, and is rarely self-critical about its commitments, but much of its reporting is a scrutinizing of the religious right and churchly movements that go with it. So one should pay attention to Warren Cole Smith’s “Numbers Racket: Survey Results on Megachurch Growth Do Not […]
Pollution and Policy
*Sightings *12/6/07 — Spencer Dew In January of 1857 the British Raj began training their native Indian soldiers – *sepoys* – in the new weapon of the empire, the Enfield musket. The cartridges, the paper tips of which had to be bitten off, were lubricated with animal grease. Rumor quickly spread that both pig and […]
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