Apologetics
Does Slavery Still Exist?
17th March 2007 AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * DOES SLAVERY STILL EXIST? Britain, through the efforts of William Wilberforce, abolished the slave trade in 1807. America did the same in 1865. This month as we celebrate 200 years of freedom since the abolishment of slavery in Britain , we may think that slavery has well […]
Climate change: two evangelical views
Soundings No. 52 – 16 March 2007 Climate change: two evangelical views by Andrew Cameron and Lisa Watts ‘You can’t change the weather,’ we all used to say with a shrug, to make the point that some actions are well beyond the powers of puny humans. But a disagreement has opened up among U.S. evangelicals […]
The Big Debate: Evangelicals and Social Issues
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “She may not see eye to eye with Evangelicals on abortion and gay rights, but she will make the case (like many Democrats do) that biblical values run deeper to include poverty, the environment, the war in Iraq, stopping the genocide in Darfur, etc.” – more evidence for the broadening evangelical […]
Stop global child abuse
Soundings No. 50 – 12 March 2007 by Denton Lotz Jesus said, “Whoever receives one in my name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the […]
Book Review: Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
Book Review: Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Margaret Farley (Continuum International Publishing Group, June 2006) Dr Margaret Farley, a Sister of Mercy and a professor of Christian ethics – since 1971 – at Yale Divinity School, is one of American Christianity’s foremost ethicists. In this book she tackles some of the […]
Muslims in Western Countries
Hot sermon draws cool response March 12, 2007 12:00am PREMIER Steve Bracks has ridiculed comments by a radical Islamic cleric that blamed global warming on Australians’ lack of faith in God. Sheik Mohammed Omran told followers at his Melbourne mosque that out-of-control secular scientific values had caused environmental disaster. “The fear of Allah is not […]
Muslims in Western countries (more)
The riots in France during the autumn of 2005, for example, had an essentially socioeconomic origin, but they were also a lashing out by the disaffected against a society that claims to give them equal rights in principle but fails to do so in practice. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=3898842 The presence of Muslims in Western societies is of […]
Islamic Extremists In Australia
Friday, 16th February 2007 Rev Fred Nile Concerned About Islamic Extremists In Australia The Reverend Fred Nile MLC, Leader of the Christian Democratic Party, supports some statements by visiting Jewish expert on Islam, Professor Raphael Israeli, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, concerning the dangers from Islamic extremists in Australia, based on the current experience […]
What Global Warming?
March 11, 2007 By Harry T. Cook It makes one sigh. Big-shots among Christian evangelicals are telling the Washington, D.C. lobbyist for their movement to shut the hell up about global warming. The usual suspects – James Dobson (Focus on the Family), Gary Bauer (Coalitions for America), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) and Paul Weyrich […]
Appeasing Radical Islam
Appeasement Is No Solution The weekend talkfest in Canberra designed to smooth over Muslim and non-Muslim differences is now history. The gathering was meant, in part, to help Muslims integrate better into Australian society, and help non-Muslims more readily welcome them, by getting to know them better. Whether the get-together will achieve such purposes rermains […]
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