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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

International News

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER July 30, 2007 * HEART SURGEON RELATES ASTOUNDING ACCOUNT OF A RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD * BRINGING JESUS TO THE HOMELESS * COURT RULING A BLOW FOR JUSTICE FOR THE UNBORN * KU KLUX KLAN GROWING IN STRENGTH * DISCOVERY OF HUGE UNDERGROUND LAKE IN DARFUR COULD BRING END TO CONFLICT […]

Amazing Grace

The film Amazing Grace, the story of Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery, has opened in cinemas across Australia. The film, despite some shortcomings, is well worth seeing. One of the chief drawbacks of the film is the decided underplaying of the strong Biblical and evangelical convictions that inspired and sustained Wilberforce and his colleagues […]

Abortion

The right to life is the most important of all Rita Joseph July 27, 2007 CHILDREN at risk of abortion are to be deprived of the protection of the law if Victorian Government Labor MP Candy Broad is successful in her private member’s bill to decriminalise abortion. Such an attack on laws that protect unborn […]

Your money dot con

No one’s telling how much of our money is being stolen through the Internet because no one wants us to lose confidence in the system. The banks are making so much money out of it, they prefer to wear the costs or push them down to the customer. In the meantime, everyone has a story […]

The Pope and the Theory of Evolution

In his talk with the priests, the Pope spoke of the current debate raging in some countries, particularly the US and his native Germany, between creationism and evolution. “They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other,” the Pope said. “This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is much scientific proof in […]

Does Not Compute

July 29, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Two and two have always made four insofar as I know. Sometimes politicians want you to believe that two and two make five. But if I read the news correctly, two and two now make less than one. I was never much at higher mathematics, but I’ve got […]

Religion of the Apes

Sightings 7/26/07 — Christian Sheppard Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo recently hosted a conference on chimpanzee cognition and culture, “The Mind of the Chimpanzee.” The most recent research confirms that chimpanzees possess a sense of self, a theory of mind, strong memory, empathy, politics, and culture. One further question to ask is whether our fellow apes […]

What’s Happening in America

July 22, 2007 A Midsummer Complaint By Harry T. Cook I do not like what is happening to my country. I do not think its future will belong to ordinary Americans (like me), much less to its minorities and its disadvantaged. Since the election of Ronald Reagan almost 27 years ago, except for the conflicted […]

Census: Young turn from religion

Young turn from religion but drop in faith is matter of interpretation Barney Zwartz, religion editor The Age IF THE figures are right, young people are deserting religion in droves. Only 56 per cent of 15 to 34-year-olds called themselves Christian in the census, compared with 64 per cent of all Australians and 79 per […]

Illegal Immigrants

Found somewhere on the ‘Net. (You might not agree, but I’ve put this here to encouraging some thinking)… A woman wrote the best ‘Letter to the Editor’ in ages!! She cuts to the chase and explains things better than all the rubbish you hear on TV. Her letter said: Recently, large demonstrations have taken place […]