Apologetics
Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth
Outrage as Church backs calls for severely disabled babies to be killed at birth By NEIL SEARS Daily Mail November 13, 2006 The Church of England has broken with tradition dogma by calling for doctors to be allowed to let sick newborn babies die. Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs […]
Religion, and gay rights
War, religion, and gay rights By James Carroll | November 13, 2006 IN JERUSALEM, Muslims and Jews have found common cause: attacking gay people. A gay pride parade was scheduled for Friday. In Palestinian areas, Muslim leaders vigorously condemned homosexuality as criminal, and in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, Jewish demonstrators staged raucous protests. As a result, organizers […]
A Rural Pastor on the Oz Drought
Back on the drought I’d like to say that we, as a rural church, have been very encouraged by the breadth of the supportive contacts we have received from our urban counterparts. Meanwhile, an update. The brief scattered showers here and there are making no particular difference but nevertheless are received with gratitude. There has […]
Science and Faith
I want to comment generally on how scientists who are Christians approach their jobs and their faith. Someone has remarked that scientists have presuppositions. We certainly do. For Christians, an important presupposition is that the universe is a contingent reality, reflecting the grace, beauty, and intelligence of its creator: the “Vestigia Dei,” the fingerprint of […]
Women and provocative dress
(Following newspaper reports about a Baptist and a Muslim clergy-person suggesting that women ought to be more careful how they dress…. November 2006): When I read the report in this mornings paper, I felt grieved, and I felt it in the same way that I had over Sheik al-Hilali’s earlier comments. I could understand the […]
The Seduction of Reasons
Sightings 11/9/06 The Seduction of Reasons — Robert P. Baird “Courage, sir” is the basic prerequisite for any kind of serious moral thought, and British novelist Martin Amis has always impressed me as a person who has such courage in spades. Amis has never shied from the moral critique of life and literature. But Amis’s […]
Western militarism and Arab despotism
Saddam’s cruelty is only half the story By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star staff (Lebanon) Wednesday, November 08, 2006 There was an appropriate irony to the fact that the day after Saddam Hussein was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder and torture of many Iraqis, the former American ruler of Iraq, L. […]
China
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CHRISTIAN CHIEF EXECUTIVES IN CHINA * NEW ZEALAND ANGLICANS DIVIDE OVER GAY ORDINATION * REFORMED HOMOSEXUAL DEMANDS A VOICE IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS * TRADITIONS WEIGH HEAVILY ON CHINA’S WOMEN * BELFAST CHURCH IS BREAKING DIVIDING WALLS BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS * SCHOOL OFFICIALS CUT OFF MICROPHONE ON MENTION OF THE […]
Scanty clothing never justifies rape
Rachel Woodlock and Anna Halafoff October 29, 2006 SHEIKH Taj al-Din al-Hilali has demonstrated he is unfit and unable to act as a leader in the Muslim community and should resign from his position or be stood down by his Lakemba congregants. From his statements made during a Ramadan speech, in which he compared women […]
Science – amazing!
Nov. 5, 2006 Religion and Science By Harry T. Cook: Science (the word comes from the Latin for knowledge) is the intellectual discipline of exploring the natural order for information about how it works and why. Response [1]: And it’s great for exploring the natural order. It gets really tangled though in dealing with the […]
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