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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.

Faith & Politics (Kevin Rudd)

4 October 2006 Kevin Rudd: Bonhoeffer and ‘the political orchestration of organised Christianity’ This week Labor frontbencher Kevin Rudd has published a piece on Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Monthly magazine. Or rather, Bonhoeffer is the starting point for an essay on the rightful role of churches in politics. Transcript This transcript was typed from a […]

Muslims in Russia

Russia becoming a Muslim state! Mon, 2006-05-22 01:14 By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Imagine Russia in 2050! According to Paul Goble, a specialist on ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation has predicted that within the next several decades, Russia will become a Muslim majority state. There is another bad news with fast decline in country’s […]

Palestinians and the U. S.

Abbas dupes US: “Recognition” is functional, not inherent by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook “Abbas: Hamas must recognize Israel,” announced the headline on the lead story in today’s Jerusalem Post. The article went on to report that “PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas vowed to fire the Hamas-led government before the end of the month unless… they […]

GIVE GOD A BREAK, PLEASE!

According to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Prime Minister, George Bush said to him, ‘God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.’ (As reported in the Israeli […]

How Christians Should Respond to Muslim Outrage

How Christians Should Respond to Muslim Outrage at the Pope’s Regensburg Message About Violence and Reason By John Piper September 20, 2006 “Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim.” Those were the words of Sheikh Abubakar Hassan Malin to a gathering of Muslims in Mogadishu on Friday, […]

Secular Islamic States the Answer

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SECULAR ISLAMIC STATES THE ANSWER SAYS PETER COSTELLO * CHURCHES SEEK TO END POVERTY AMONGST ABORIGINES * NOW YOU CAN MAKE A STAND ON VITAL ISSUES ———————————————– SECULAR ISLAMIC STATES THE ANSWER SAYS PETER COSTELLO Peter Costello says Ataturk’s creation of a secular Muslim state in Turkey is a model […]

Climate Justice Now

ACNS 4194 | EUROPE | 3 OCTOBER 2006 European Christians launch ‘Climate Justice Now’ FLAMSLATT, Sweden – A European network of Christian churches has launched a new plan called Climate Justice Now to tackle global warming from the standpoint of North/South equity. “We’re trying to establish a whole new way of looking at climate change,” […]

Barbers don’t exist – irrefutable proof

A Christian went to his favorite barber shop for his weekly hair-cut and beard trimming. In the course of their conversation, they touched upon the subject of God. The barber said: “Look man, I don’t think that God exists as you believe.” “Why do you think that?” asked the Christian. “Well, it’s so easy; you […]

Steve Irwin – Missionary (more)

From a netfriend: Whether it was the Chou Dynasty in the 12th century BCE or the biologically-crazed nobles of Europe during the Enlightenment, animals were exotica, symbols of power. The agents of Imperialism, assisted by improved technologies, caged the animals of colonies first in private menageries, then public exhibition spaces called zoos. Having had the […]

Duplicity by the Religious Right

Tuesday, October 03, 2006 Tony Campolo: Duplicity on the Right Do those on the Religious Right understand their duplicity? For years they have argued against situational ethics. They have stood for absolutes and contended that those absolutes should never be compromised. With conviction they have declared, loud and clear, that the end never justifies the […]