Apologetics
Towards a Dictatorship in America, in 10 easy steps
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329789179-110878,00.html From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Naomi Wolf Tuesday April 24, 2007 Guardian Last autumn, there was […]
Where Have All The Prophets Gone?
Here’s the gist of Marvin McMickle’s Where Have All The Prophets Gone? Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America, 2006. It’s black writing-as-preaching at its most passionate, biblically enlightened, and intelligent (he has a couple of earned Drs). When (American) preaching isn’t prophetic you won’t hear anything about the two million persons packed into overcrowded prisons, most […]
Democracy
April 29, 2007 Democracy In Action … Or Not By Harry T. Cook ** That great exporter of democracy, George W. Bush, has shown the way. He has shown the way to his petroleum friends in Saudi Arabia. He has shown them how Bush-style democracy works. According to the /New York Times,/ at the urging […]
Honouring the Fallen – A Sermon
From Nathan Nettleton Pastor, South Yarra Community Baptist Church Melbourne, Australia ______________________________________ Honouring the Fallen A sermon on Revelation 7:9-17 & John 10:22-30 by Nathan Nettleton, 29 April 2007 This week, Australia has observed Anzac Day – a day which is increasing described as the most sacred day in our national calendar and the most […]
The Search for Soul
by Bernard Leibov [23-Apr-2007] As brand strategists, which are our hero brands? As consumers, who has earned our continuing business and our loyalty? Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Coca-Cola, Google, Nike, Virgin—these are names that resonate, both personally and professionally. Each of these brands offers us a sense of belonging, the distinct impression that we have been […]
The Strange Death of Multiculturalism
Ian Buruma An ideology which holds that people from different cultures must live in separate communities within a country, should not take an interest in each other and must not criticise each other is both wrong and unworkable. Of course, multiculturalism’s more thoughtful advocates never imagined that a cultural community could or should substitute for […]
What There Is to Say?
Sightings 4/26/07 What There Is to Say — Jerome Eric Copulsky Classes at Virginia Tech resume this week, and the cacophonous presence of the media that had settled upon the campus has begun to dissipate. Students clad in orange and maroon mull about the Drillfield; some toss Frisbees, kick soccer balls, fly kites. Others gather […]
A Messiah’s real religious zeal: the ultimate escape
IT WAS not so much a terrorist plot, but a plan for the ultimate great escape. Mysteriously, money began to find its way into the bank accounts of inmates who took up the call to convert to Islam inside the Super Max complex at Goulburn prison, home to the “worst of the worst” in the […]
An Ecumenical Christian approach to migration
“Welcoming the stranger is not optional for Christians. Nor is it conditional,” Kobia states. “Christ didn’t call for Christians to welcome those strangers whose papers are in order or who speak our language.” KOBIA, IN WALES, CALLS MIGRATION THE “HUMAN SIDE” OF GLOBALIZATION Global migration poses new challenges for churches worldwide, the WCC general secretary […]
Church and State (Tom Frame)
Review: CHURCH AND STATE, Australia’s Imaginary Wall, by Tom Frame (UNSW Press 2006) Tom Frame, historian and writer, left a military career in the navy to train for the Anglican priesthood and was, until recently, the (high profile) Bishop of the Australian armed forces. In this little book (96 pages) he probes the complex relationship […]
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