Apologetics
The Sinister story behind chocolate
Steve Chalke September 18, 2007 CHOCOLATE is regarded as a treat, a sweet luxury often given as a gift. But that is only part of its story. The rest is more sinister. Two hundred years after the British Empire abolished the slave trade, nearly half the world’s chocolate is made from cocoa grown in Ivory […]
Muslims who convert risk being killed
Bishop warns that Muslims who convert risk being killed Jamie Doward, home affairs editor Sunday September 16, 2007 The Observer One of the Church of England’s most senior bishops is warning that people will die unless Muslim leaders in Britain speak out in defence of the right to change faith. Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of […]
Converts from Islam
17th September 2007 Sunday Times and Dispatches program highlight problems faced by British *The issue of apostasy from Islam is beginning to receive mainstream media attention in Britain, as is shown by yesterday’s Sunday Times article (see below), and also by an episode of the Dispatches program, “Unholy War”, which is investigating violence and intimidation […]
Guilty!
By John Dear SJ Created Sep 11 2007 – 08:42 On Sept. 6, a federal judge in Albuquerque, N.M. found six of us guilty for trying to visit the office of our senator. We will be sentenced in a few weeks. The message? It is a federal crime to attempt to speak to an elected […]
Homosexuality and Christianity
This posting summarizes several issues involving homosexuality and Christians. This is a frequently asked question, so I do not post the question each time it occurs. Rather this is an attempt to summarize the postings we get when we have a discussion. It summarizes arguments for allowing Christian homosexuality, since most people asking the question […]
Human Rights
Subj: UNHRC: Watershed days. UNHRC: WATERSHED DAYS – UNHRC to choose between defending human rights and Islamising human rights. This posting examines the 21 August 2007 report presented to the sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by “the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Doudou […]
Archbishop fears split over gay clergy
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones Telegraph Last Updated: 1:29am BST 16/09/2007 The Archbishop of Canterbury fears the Anglican Church will finally split if his warnings over promoting gay bishops are not heeded. Dr Rowan Williams has confided in his closest aides that he believes his visit to a summit of Church leaders in America this week is […]
The New Atheists
*Sightings* 9/17/07 –Martin E. Marty “For the first time in living memory, religious skepticism is hot,” writes Katha Pollitt in *The Nation* (September 24). In a sensible one-page column, she points to best-sellers and talk show appearances by “the new atheists.” These skeptics do not particularly impress the progressive media, she observes, yet they get […]
Science and Faith
GOD AND THE BIG BANG – AND OTHER ARGUMENTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND FAITH by Mike Poole ——————————————————————————– THE BIG BANG One of the most dramatic ideas of modern science is the Big Bang. But the Big Bang was not a cosmic explosion at a point in time in empty black space, but the beginning of […]
The Aboriginal sexual abuse crisis
The Aboriginal sexual abuse crisis …. Feb 16 2001 – “Black Australia: a picture of despair, rage and violence” – major report in Herald Sun, by Debra Jopson. It is six years, four months and 12 days (4/7/07) since the Herald ran a story headlined, “Black Australia: a picture of despair, rage and violence”. It […]
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