Apologetics
Hardline Islamic Clerics Urge Tax Cheating
AUSTRALIAN NEWS 28th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER HARDLINE CLERICS URGE TAX CHEATING Hardline Muslim clerics are encouraging their followers to cheat the tax system because they consider paying income tax contrary to Islamic law. Muslim leaders have warned that fundamentalist imams who put sharia law ahead of Australian law are also condoning welfare […]
School Chaplains in Victoria, Australia
AUSTRALIAN NEWS 28th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * VICTORIAN STATE SCHOOLS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED CHAPLAINS ———————————————– VICTORIAN STATE SCHOOLS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED CHAPLAINS More than 120 Victorian state schools are thinking of installing a government-subsidised chaplain, according to the Council for Christian Education in Schools. The deadline to apply […]
Is it Ever Right to Kill?
CultureWatch Bill Muehlenberg’s commentary on issues of the day… What does it mean to be pro-life? There is some confusion as to what the term implies. If a person is opposed to abortion, must that same person also be opposed to war, or the death penalty? Indeed, religious conservatives tend as a whole to be […]
Discrimination and Disagreement: A Crucial Distinction
Sightings 3/22/07 — Susan Jacoby “Does discrimination against Catholics still exist in this country today?” was a recent question posed in “On Faith,” a blog published by the Washington Post and Newsweek. The responses were extraordinarily revealing — not about anti-Catholic discrimination, but about the profound American confusion between discrimination and disagreement. Many panelists and […]
Marching Orders – SojoMail 03.22.07
************************************************* SojoMail a weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics, and culture http://go.sojo.net/ct/1pLWub11tzRe/ ************************************************* QUOTE OF THE WEEK “The status of being a dissident unites dissidents on either side.” – Prof. Douglas Laycock of the University of Michigan Law School, commenting on the Supreme Court case of Joseph Frederick, a high school student suspended for displaying a […]
Spain’s wind farms
Spanish Wind Power blows past Coal and Nuclear 22 March 07 – For immediate Release – Melbourne, Australia On March 20th Spain’s wind power generation rose to contribute 27 per cent of the country’s total daily power demands, surpassing supplies by nuclear and coal. This is a new record for contribution of wind-generated power at […]
Anglicans closer to schism
March 21, 2007 Anglicans closer to schism as US bishops reject gay ultimatum Times Online, UK The Anglican Church took another step towards its apparently inevitable schism when US Episcopal bishops rejected the ultimatum from primates of the Anglican Communion to fall into line over homosexuals. The bishops of the Episcopal Church accused Anglican primates […]
Human Rights Day in South Africa
Today is Human Rights Day in South Africa. (21st March 2007) It commemorates the massacre of a group of peaceful protesters outside a police station in Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, on 21 March 1960. The protesters had gone to the police station without the passes that blacks had to carry on them at all times, and […]
Islam & Christianity
March 2007 issue Story by Carol Schersten LaHurd Islam & Christianity Understanding begins with acknowledging devotion and differences For many Americans, the only encounter with Islam and Muslims is televised images of violent conflict in the Middle East. For others, it may be the glimpse of a fully covered female shopper in a supermarket. Our […]
US regime worse than Saddam, statue slayer says
Audrey Gillan March 20, 2007 The Guardian. It is nearly four years since Kadhim al-Jubouri led the toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad. HIS hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, four years ago, he slammed a sledgehammer into the tiled plinth that held a seven-metre bronze statue of Saddam Hussein. […]
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