Apologetics
Deaths in Iraq
What Just Foreign Policy’s Iraqi Death Estimator Is and Is Not Since the last scientific estimate of 601,000 violent Iraqi deaths attributable to the U.S.-led invasion was made over a year ago, it necessarily does not include Iraqis who have been killed since then. We would like to update this number both to provide a […]
What are we to make of Mohamed Haneef?
An Indian doctor working on a work visa in an Australian hospital. He wanted to get his pregnant wife to live here to, but such had not happened yet, and as their baby was due to be born, it seems that he decided to return to visit her in India. He got arrested at the […]
Is There a Gay Gene?
[Note from Rowland: this is posted here for interest. Articles here on this topic represent a wide range of views]. Many laymen now believe that homosexuality is part of who a person really is from the moment of conception. The “genetic and unchangeable” theory has been actively promoted by gay activists and the popular […]
Gay Gene?
From a friend: http://mygenes.co.nz/download.htm Also, this is a good summary of some of the studies done: http://www.narth.com/docs/istheregene.html http://www.narth.com/docs/innate.html http://www.narth.com/docs/quotes.html June 2007
Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos
Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos 07-Jun-2007 By Frank Brennan God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, New York, 305pp Michel Onfray, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, 219pp Against Religion, Tamas Pataki, Scribe, Melbourne, 2007, 136pp These anti-religious tomes arrived at my bedside when I was hospitalised with acute renal […]
Hillsong: and now the good news
JUSTICE HAS A FRONT SEAT AT HILLSONG CONFERENCE July 10, 2007 With themes of unity, courage, justice and freedom, this year’s Hillsong conference held last week in Sydney, which each year is the largest single gathering of Christians in Australia, had the ring of a United Nations convention rather than a church gathering. Criticized in […]
Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos
Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos 05-Jul-2007 By Frank Brennan God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, New York, 305pp Michel Onfray, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, 219pp Against Religion, Tamas Pataki, Scribe, Melbourne, 2007, 136pp These anti-religious tomes arrived at my bedside when I was hospitalised with acute renal […]
Against Religion (essay by Tamas Pataki)
[Note from Rowland. I’ve just finished reading and reviewing Pataki’s book, which is an expansion of these themes: look in the indexes on this website for my response. Also look for the article ‘Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos’ on this site. July 2007] Against religion Tamas Pataki SHORTLY BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS of October 2004, […]
East German theologian warns on ‘friendly embrace’ of capitalism
An East German Protestant leader, who played a prominent role in the movement that led to the end of communism and the Berlin Wall in 1989, has warned against the church becoming seduced by the “friendly embrace” of capitalism. “What are the dominant interests in the church: self-preservation, maintaining its position, increasing its profile or […]
Monitoring Mass Secularism
Sightings 6/18/07 — Martin E. Marty “Anything anybody can say about America is true”: this seems to be as true now as when countercultural philosopher Emmett Grogan said it decades ago and when I applied it to American religion in this cyber-space four years ago. Ross Douthat inspires my return to that theme with his […]
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