Apologetics
Christians don’t have a monopoly on kitsch
I usually dislike URLs posted without an adequate description, but this one cannot be described, it can only be experienced. A friend posted it in his blog with the comment that he was glad to see that Christians did not have a monopoly on religious kitsch. http://www.artgoddess.com/purses.htm With acknowledgements to Matt Stone at Eclectic Itchings […]
Iftar and American Islam
Sightings 11/16/06 Iftar and American Islam — Matthew Weiner Iftar (the breaking of daily fasts during the Islamic month of Ramadan) in interfaith settings is an increasingly widespread phenomenon. This year there were dozens of interfaith Iftar celebrations throughout New York City, where I live, and perhaps hundreds nation wide. Inviting non-Muslims to break fast […]
Now About Iraq
Nov. 19, 2006 By Harry T. Cook The argument is that if the United States removes its military forces from Iraq, civil war and chaos will break out. Really? What do you call what’s going on there now if not civil war and chaos? And let us recall what occasioned all that unshirted hell. In […]
Searching for truth
How to think ………. 1. Value truth above all other things. 2. Search for truth more than ideas to back up your present world-view. 3. Think about the consequences of that truth. 4. Apply that truth to as many different items as possible. 5. Test that truth multiple times to make sure it works. 6. […]
Mormons
[1]: Anyone care to educate me on the LDS and where they stand in relation to the Abrahamic faiths? [2] I’m not sure that’s possible in a short answer. But here are my initial thoughts, based on many many hours of discussion with local Mormon missionaries: In many ways, the actual beliefs aren’t so different. […]
Exclusive Brethren
November 15, 2006 Politics, Pamphlets and Prayers Earlier this year John Howard acknowledged that he’d met with members of the Exclusive Brethren, an ultra-conservative Christian group described by some observers as “a moralistic sect”. The group which bars their members from voting in elections, the results of which they say are ordained by God – […]
Iraq disaster finally caught up with Bush
November 10, 2006 BY ANDREW GREELEY Even the “born-agains” may have been part of the Democratic revolution last Tuesday. In its final pre-election poll, the New York Times, with its usual religious tin ear, presented but did not comment on a graph that showed this Republican “base” was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans in […]
Watch Your Language
Sightings 11/13/06 Watch Your Language — Martin E. Marty With regard to the recent election — was it a seismic or glacial change? — I want to make one observation or suggestion. It’s in the “watch your language” category. Ever since my article “The New Christian Right” appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook 1981, I’ve […]
Surrogacy
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER SURROGACY THE NEXT MORAL AND ETHICAL MINEFIELD The birth of a baby girl to Victorian Labor Senator Stephen Conroy and his wife Paula Benson last week highlights again how medical science is pushing conventional moral ethics to the limit and shaping Government responses by default before society as a whole has […]
Where is God in
Where is God in ‘The War on Terror’? a public lecture in Durham Cathedral, 7.30 pm, 9 November 2006 by the Bishop of Durham, Dr N. T. Wright Introduction We live at a remarkable moment in western history and culture. The old certainties and stabilities have been swept away; questions we thought we’d avoided have […]
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