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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Churches and Public Debate

Clive Hamilton discusses the shift in moral attitudes of the progressive ‘left’ and the conservative ‘right’ and whether he really sees churches as the only future for progressive politics in this country. Transcript This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of […]

Egypt: Christian Convert From Islam Jailed

Wednesday October 18, 2006 EGYPT: CHRISTIAN CONVERT FROM ISLAM JAILED http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=4596&backpage= http://tinyurl.com/yh34ta Bahaa el-Din el-Akkad October 18 (Compass Direct News) – A Muslim sheikh jailed in Egypt for 18 months has declared from his prison cell that he is under arrest for “insulting Islam” by becoming a Christian. Egypt’s secret police transferred Bahaa el-Din Ahmed […]

Theocratic Tendencies

Sightings 10/30/06 Theocratic Tendencies — Martin E. Marty Let’s settle this issue about “theocracy” in America once and for all — or at least for this week. Is the Christian Right, from its Catholic-minority, evangelical, Pentecostal, fundamentalist flanks over to some African American church fronts, aiming to move beyond the practice of exerting influence on […]

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Scandal in Gaza

A deadly scandal continues in Gaza By Patrick Seale Friday, October 27, 2006 Israel has killed 2,300 Gazans over the past six years, including 300 in the four months since Corporal Gilad Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid by Palestinian fighters on June 25. The wounded can be counted in the tens of thousands. […]

Australian Mosques still teaching jihad?

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * CLONING BILL EXPECTED TO GO BEFORE PARLIAMENT NEXT WEEK * AUSTRALIAN MOSQUES ALLEGED TO BE STILL TEACHING JIHAD * RELIGION ON THE WAY BACK INTO SCHOOLS ———————————————– CLONING BILL EXPECTED TO GO BEFORE PARLIAMENT NEXT WEEK With the vote on this issue expected next week pressure to have it defeated […]

Homosexuality: a very conservative view

http://www.coptic.org.au/modules/news/article.php?storyid=35 http://www.coptic.org.au/resources/Newspaper/Media%20Release%2022July03.pdf http://www.coptnet.com/Pope-Books/ordofwom/index.htm From the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church: : “Homosexuals Shall Not Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven Carnal people cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. We read this in the Book of Revelation, chapter 21, where it speaks about the heavenly Jerusalem and says: “But there shall by no means enter it […]

Gay sex forces store to close toilets

Gay sex forces store to close toilets Jamie Pandaram October 30, 2006 – 4:04PM The closure of customer toilets in a Myer store due to rampant homosexual activity has exposed a massive list of venues being used by members of a gay website as hook-up points. Among the places listed as meeting spots for men […]

Brethren – Rowland Croucher on Radio

See http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ark/default.htm for an ABC Radio National program this week where I’m interviewed on the relationship between the ‘Exclusive’ and ‘Open’ Brethren — — Shalom! Rowland Croucher

Why is the Universe just right for human life?

Not too hot Not too cold Why is the Universe just right for human life? Alastair McKay talks to Astrobiologist Paul Davies TO explain the question he is posing, Paul Davies likes to talk about turtles. He has an anecdote which is attributed to both Bertrand Russell and the 19th century philosopher William James, concerning […]