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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.

A Tale Of Two Houses

A TALE OF TWO HOUSES (Cowboys and Indians vs Global Warming) From a friend: ‘Some can talk the talk but don’t bother to walk the walk.’ House 1 The four-bedroom home was planned so that “every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that’s different from the room next door. Each of the […]

Poverty is…

Poverty is essentially powerlessness, rather than a lack of money…

Peacemaking at Pine Gap

Simon Moyle wrote: At dawn on December 9 2005 a group of four Christians, Bryan Law, Adele Goldie, Donna Mulhearn and Jim Dowling conducted a citizens inspection of the Pine Gap Military base near Alice Springs. Calling themselves Christians Against ALL Terrorism, they wanted to bring some moral and intellectual integrity to the terrorism debate […]

Islam and Tolerance

From Trinity Forum’s Implications Journal David Aikman Ideology, Intolerance, and Identity When Samuel Huntington published his  ¯ ¿ ½Clash of Civilizations ¯ ¿ ½ essay in Foreign Affairs Magazine in the summer of 1993, it generated more correspondence with the editors of the journal than almost any piece that had previously been written for it. That was in the US […]

Oxford atheist ridiculed by Anglican theologian

Oxford atheist ridiculed by Anglican theologian during debate Crusading pro-evolution scientist Richard Dawkins has had his anti-religious claims ridiculed during an Oxford debate with a theologian who once was an atheist like the evolutionist, who is devout in his public denunciations of religion. “Having been an atheist, I discovered religion was in fact an enormously […]

Faye Turney and the Hijab

The parading of British Leading Seaman Faye Turney on Iranian TV, her head covered with an Islamic /hijab/, has caused great consternation and perplexity to many in the UK. One of our indignant supporters wrote us the following: *”*/It is outrageous that the Iranians paraded a British service woman on TV dressed in enemy uniform […]

Teacher Story

As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was […]

The Hiccup Over Hicks’ Hick Treatment

By : Richard Lawton So David Hicks will soon return to Australia. Stupid mishandling of his case ensured that he became a cause celebre. Had he been dealt with swiftly, fairly and effectively, he’d have had his day in court, done his time, and few of us would even remember his name. Instead, Hicks, the […]

The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism

References: Main Page http://www.andrewbostom.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Book Jacket Summary http://www.andrewbostom.org/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=53 This comprehensive, meticulously documented collection of scholarly articles presents indisputable evidence that a readily discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism — a specific Muslim hatred of Jews — has been expressed continuously since the advent of Islam. Debunking the conventional wisdom, which continues to assert that Muslim animosity […]

Flirting with the Truth (Ravi Zacharias)

Inpsiring and challenging talk by Ravi Zacarias If you’d like to download it to listen to cut and paste this link into your web browser http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=309&TopicID=4&CategoryID=6 It’s a big file, almost 17MB. The Be Thinking website is impressive and contains hundreds of free talk downloads. Rowland