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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.

Radical changes needed for a just trade system

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

World Trade Organization (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy met with representatives of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) on 14 September at Geneva’s Ecumenical Centre. In July the EAA and the WCC had presented Lamy with a petition signed by religious leaders calling for justice in global trade. Lamy explained […]

Germans reconsider religion

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Germans reconsider religion Pope Benedict XVI’s challenge to secularism meets with receptivity during his German visit. By Christa Case | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Friday, 10/06/06 BERLIN – This is the continent where some leading thinkers are talking about a “post-Christian Europe.” And this is the country of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who […]

Religious Freedom

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Canberra’s Roman Catholic Archbishop, Mark Coleridge recently pinpointed an issue in The Age newspaper that is the source of a great deal of tension between Christians and Muslims (Lost in Translation by Barney Zwartz, 19th September 2006). He said that Pope Benedict believed that religious freedom should not be a one sided phenomenon: “It’s not […]

One Gun Too Many

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

October 8, 2006 By Harry T. Cook What if Duane Morrison had been living in his vehicle around your neighborhood, and you suspected from his behavior that he might be dangerous? If you lived in Michigan, you would not be able to learn through exercising your rights under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) whether […]

Creed of the Sword (response)

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks for this article Rowland. I’d like to engage with a couple of things Mark said in this article. (See http://jmm.org.au/articles/18156.htm ) Mark Durie wrote: “Throughout the New Testament there is a systematic rejection of religious violence. The key to this is Jesus’ message that his kingdom was spiritual and not political.” For Jesus’ culture […]

The State should get out of the marriage business

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s an interesting article by a respected netfriend of mine who lives in South Africa. How does all this apply to your country? ~~~ Marriage in South Africa Marriage and other social and domestic partnerships Dr Stephen Hayes 1 Introduction The Constitutional Court in South Africa has ruled that the Marriage Act is unconstitutional, because […]

‘The State should get out of the marriage business’ (response)

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The State should get out of the marriage business [See article on our website with that title]. I would think this is directly applicable to Australia as well, even though we don’t have the prominent polygamy practices that would be the case in Africa. We still have other diverse practices. It seems to me that […]

Pope in child abuse cover-up?

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Doco claims Pope in child abuse cover-up October 02, 2006 08:20am A BRITISH documentary claimed today that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests. Over 20 years, the man formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced a secret 1962 document on how bishops should deal with […]

Bishops condemn abuse cover up allegations against Pope

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British bishops have denounced as “misleading” accusations by a BBC investigative TV program that Pope Benedict played a leading role as a cardinal in a systematic cover up of child sex abuse by Catholic priests. According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, […]

Politics and the Religious Right

By and others ⋅ October 6, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy Ross Douthat Copyright (c) 2006 First Things 165 (August/September 2006): 23-30. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips Viking, 480 pages, $26.95 The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us by James Rudin Thunder’s […]

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