Apologetics
The Modern successor to the slave trade
The Independent – 13 September 2006 http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article1523112.ece No longer should the peace business be undermined by the arms business by Desmond Tutu For many years, I’ve been involved in the peace business, doing what I can to help people overcome their differences. In doing so, I’ve also learnt a lot about the business of war: […]
Standing up to the Islamists
— Published in September’s Quadrant under the title “Standing up to the Islamists”. ISLAMISM – BEYOND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS Paul Stenhouse The shortcomings of Islamism are, in the words of not unsympathetic commentators, manifest and legion. Its intellectual, social, political and military failures … are evident not just to political scientists and analysts, but to the […]
On the Term Islamo-Fascism
On the Term “Islamo-Fascism” | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | August 15, 2006 http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2006/schall_islamfasc_aug06.asp I. The war in which we are currently engaged confuses us, in part because many will not admit it is a war. We do not know what to call it. Nor do we know what to call the self-declared enemy […]
Making Myth Real
Making Myth Real — Richard C. Salter September 22 will mark the 45th anniversary of a moment par excellence in American civil religion: Congressional approval to fund the U.S. Peace Corps. President Kennedy initiated the Peace Corps in March of 1961, but for the new venture to succeed, it required Congressional support. Notwithstanding some heated […]
A Communiqu
committee Comment by a knowledgeable Christian observer: A “Classic” example of dhimmitude in action. To my shame, I see that it is Anglican dhimmitude. It is highly memorable that the consultation felt itself to be ‘honoured’ by the presence of Tantawy, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, who has has concluded from his studies of Islamic authorities […]
Peter Cotterell, One God: The Deity Revealed in Jesus
Book Review: Peter Cotterell, One God: The Deity Revealed in Jesus, Spring Harvest, 2006. Peter Cotterell, says the hard-to-read mauve-on-purple print on the back cover…. ahh I can’t read it anyway. The London School of Theology website says his distinguished career includes 19 years lecturing at London School of Theology, where he also served as […]
September 11 and Tony Blair
The Blair legacy is attachment to the doomed Bush project Jonathan Freedland THE AMERICANS can’t quite believe it. Getting rid of Tony Blair? Are the Brits crazy? Like Thatcher before him, Blair finds that the acclaim abroad lingers even when there is derision at home. Maggie was a legend in the US when she was […]
The Cloning Debate
September 2006 IGNORE THE HYPE IN THE CLONING DEBATE An edited version of an article written by Nicholas Toni-Filipina, senior lecturer (bioethics), at the John Paul II Institute. Editors comment: We realise that this subject is fairly technical and difficult for non medical people to come to grips with. It is however a subject of […]
Muslim-Protestant Relations
Sightings 9/11/06 Muslim-Protestant Relations — Martin E. Marty “Dumb me!” one says or thinks — at least this one does — when awakened to knowledge of what one’s sleepy eyes and consciousness had long overlooked. For a half-century, I, like the colleagues of my generation among American religious historians, could babble for thousands of hours […]
Islam and the West: two views by Muslims
The poisonous political cycle that harms us all September 9, 2006 There is something frightening about two sides fighting a war each claims the other started., writes Waleed Aly. ON THE first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Britain’s most vile terror-loving organisation, al-Muhajiroun, held a celebratory conference. Members gathered to recall how “magnificently” the […]
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