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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.

Australia’s Christian Heritage

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * MUSLIMS WARN AUSTRALIAN JAILS A BREEDING GROUND FOR ISLAMIC EXTREMISM * PROMINENT AUSTRALIANS CALL FOR RECOGNITION OF AUSTRALIA’S CHRISTIAN HERITAGE * CLONING DEBATE BECOMES CRITICAL AS POLITICAL PRESSURE MOUNTS * VILIFICATION APPEAL UPDATE ———————————————– MUSLIMS WARN AUSTRALIAN JAILS A BREEDING GROUND FOR ISLAMIC EXTREMISM Dozens of violent criminals are being […]

Irony and Islamofascism

Sightings 8/21/06 — Martin E. Marty Shi’ite and Sunni Muslim excrescences that issue in terrorism are coming to be called “Islamofascism” among those who want to see the “War on Terror” be part of “World War III” (or IV). Roger Scruton, author of A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism, heads his August 17 Wall Street […]

Killing in God

By David G. Littman FrontPageMagazine.com | August 21, 2006 The following statement was delivered in Geneva on August 17 by David G. Littman – speaking as a representative of the nongovernmental organization (NGO), the Association for World Education – to the 58th session of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, under item 6(c): “terrorism and […]

Overweight People and the Poor

‘Overweight people now outnumber the hungry across the world… ‘The International Association of Agricultural Economists has revealed that 1 billion of the world’s 6.5 billion are too heavy and 800 million are malnourished.’ Naomi Alderman in The (Melbourne) Age 19th August 2006.

War

From a Jewish online friend: It is a Judaic principle that if someone is coming to kill you, you get up early and kill them first. Jews love peace, but we love life more.

Do Muslims and Christians Worship the same God?

Book Review/Summary,  ¯ ¿ ½REVELATION: Do We Worship The Same God? Jesus, Holy Spirit, God in Christianity and Islam ¯ ¿ ½ (Dr. Mark Durie, CityHarvest Publications, 2006). A couple of days ago this report was circulated to the world ¯ ¿ ½s media:  ¯ ¿ ½ALMOST a quarter of British Muslims say the 7/7 bombings can be justified because of the Government’s support for […]

Commodified Conversion and The Dr. Phil Show

Sightings 8/17/06 — R. Danielle Egan and Stephen Papson One aspect of the pervasive “religiosecular” character of American culture is the marriage of capitalism and conversion experiences, particularly in “self-help” television. Psychologist cum life coach Phil McGraw, who got his start on Oprah, hosts the talk television program The Dr. Phil Show. Airing on 210 […]

Amazing Little Country…..Israel!

*Amazing Little Country…..**Israel**!* The Middle East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year. Israeli date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be harvested from the ground or a short ladder. Israel the 100th […]

The Middle East

(From an on-line Jewish friend): Hamas: “It is an obligation to kill all Jews” http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1993_cr/h930302-terror.htm Hezhbollah: “If Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/hezbollahs-goal-going-_b_26983.html Palestine? That was the name of a British Mandated area from 1920-1948. Before that it was the name of an area […]

Drug Addiction

AUSTRALIAN NEWS 16th August 2006 CHRISTIAN DOCTOR SEEKS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE FIGHT TO OVERCOME ADDICTION The writer of this article is a Christian Doctor who is a member of our Network. He works in family medicine with a particular emphasis on treatment of addictions. In an attempt to encourage more prayer to break […]