Apologetics
Relitgious Right (Martin Marty)
*Sightings *11/05/07 Schadenfreude — Martin E. Marty The always-too-loud TV in the airport club lounge Wednesday was sensationally broadcasting news of the scandal of that day: Another politician nabbed for sexual transgressions though he’d long and enthusiastically voted to ban such activities. The story inspired the sippers near me to engage in ribaldry: “Another family […]
Anti-gay Church ordered to pay $10.9 million damages
Kansas church liable in Marine funeral protest ================================= BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s death was […]
Foreign aid a key moral issue for Australia
Baptist Union of Australia MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release 4 November 2007 Foreign aid is a significant moral issue and this should be reflected in real increases in Australia’s foreign aid budget, the President of the Baptist Union of Australia, Rev Dr Ross Clifford, said today. Baptists are often portrayed as focused only about issues […]
Heroic Conservatism
************************************************* SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/gpLWub11yYzK/ ************************************************* ================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================= Chiquita’s money helped buy weapons and ammunition used to kill innocent victims of terrorism. Simply put, defendant Chiquita funded terrorism. – the U.S. Justice Department, in court filings last month against Chiquita, which was found guilty of […]
How should we then vote?
The Federal Elections: How should we then vote? For Zadok: July 2007 Dr Armen Gakavian Introduction The 2007 Federal election campaign is the most interesting in a decade. The Liberal-National Party Coalition has been in power for just over 10 years, the typical life cycle for governments at the Federal and State levels. There is […]
Muslims in Australia: (how the political right-wing addresses them)
Muslims in Australia http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/australia.asp Hooray for Australia!! Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia and her […]
Church and state (M L King)
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club […]
Islamic militancy
Roots of rancor: examining Islamic militancy – Cover Story – Statistical Data Included Christian Century by Charles A. Kimball COMMENTARY SINCE September 11 has produced a cognitive dissonance among Americans about Islam, the world’s second largest religious tradition. On the one hand, selected Muslim leaders declare that “Islam is a religion of peace” and President […]
The New Atheists…
The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it Anti-faith proselytising is a growth industry. But its increasingly hysterical flag-bearers are heading for a spectacular failure Madeleine Bunting Monday May 7, 2007 The Guardian It’s an extraordinary publishing phenomenon – atheism sells. Any philosopher, professional polemicist or scientist with worries about their […]
The Public Face of Buddhism
*Sightings* 10/25/07 — John C. Holt When most of us in North America think about Buddhist monks, the image we are likely to conjure is one of ochre-robed contemplatives engaged in the quietude of meditation. But in fact, there has been a debate within the Buddhist sangha (monastic community) over the past two millennia regarding […]
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