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World Needs A Strong United Nations

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/nicholas_t_wright/2007/01/post_2.html The doctrine of ‘just war’ was developed in order to emphasize that, though war is always an evil, sometimes it is the lesser of two evils. Doing justice, in whatever form, is always about anticipating in the present God’s eventual design to put the whole world to rights, to gather up all things in […]

Inflammatory preaching in mosques (You Tube)

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Fwd: Channel 4 Despatches online Britain: Inflammatory preaching in mosques (You Tube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MSFbhIG-sk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi5DWt3b0w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TjzCcTkE8&mode=related&search=

Torture today

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s important to use the organs of propaganda to break down the resistance of society as a whole to torturing people: see http://www.alternet.org/stories/46757/ For the convenience of those who don’t wish to click, here’s the article: Fox Show “24”: Torture on TV By Jon Wiener, TheNation.com. Posted January 15, 2007. “24” is back on Fox […]

Homosexual ‘marriage’

By and others ⋅ January 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

HOMOSEXUALS BACK AWAY FROM FORMALISED RELATIONSHIPS The homosexual lobby continues to push for varying forms of “marriage” relationships be they civil unions or relationships registration. However evidence in places where legislation to allow such arrangements has been passed would seem to indicate that individual homosexuals in fact make little use of their hard fought gains.For […]

Block the Escalation in Iraq

By and others ⋅ January 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

You Thought Iraq Could Not Get Worse Dear friends, Just when we thought the war in Iraq couldn’t get any worse – it has. President Bush has rejected reality, spurned the American people’s verdict, and announced his new policy: MILITARY ESCALATION IN IRAQ. The good news is that the newly elected United States Congress can […]

Brian McLaren on Homosexuality

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Leader’s Insight: No Cowardly Flip-Flop How should pastors respond to “the Homosexual Question”? by Brian McLaren, Leadership columnist The couple approached me immediately after the service. This was their first time visiting, and they really enjoyed the service, they said, but they had one question. You can guess what the question was about: not transubstantiation, […]

Vatican condemns Saddam Hussein execution

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 11:52 PM ET Associated Press VATICAN CITY — The Vatican spokesman on Saturday denounced Saddam Hussein’s execution as “tragic” and expressed worry it might fuel revenge and new violence. The execution is “tragic and reason for sadness,” the Rev. Federico Lombardi said, speaking in French on Vatican Radio’s French-language news […]

Robyn Davidson: ‘No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet’

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

‘Quarterly Essay’ is an Australian journal which features a 25,000-word essay, plus correspondence. Prominent Australians like Robert Manne, Mungo MacCallum and David Malouf have written previous essays. This one (Issue 24, 2006) features well-known social anthropologist, traveler and raconteur Robyn Davidson, who first came to fame with her book ‘Tracks’, the account of her epic […]

Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year Message – ‘hunger for justice will change the world’

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year Message 31st December 2006 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has said that we need to feel the same hunger for justice that ended the slave trade if the world is to be changed for the better. Speaking in his New Year message, broadcast on BBC Television in the […]

Orthodoxy (N T Wright)

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

“It is possible to say more or less all the orthodox Christian affirmations, but to join then up in the wrong story.” ~~~ “If you simply address the God-shaped blank that people think they’ve got, the God that you end up with is the God shaped by the blank.’ N. T. Wright

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