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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.

Australian Baptists: ‘Gay civil unions are not marriages’

By and others ⋅ June 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release 7 June 2006 Gay civil unions are not marriages The decision yesterday by the Howard Government to block the move in the nation’s capital to allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions has been welcomed by Australian Baptist leaders. The President of the Baptist Union of Australia, Dr Ross […]

Should Christians march to the call of the ‘Left’ or ‘Right’?

By and others ⋅ June 8, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Soundings No. 35, 29 May 2006 Should Christians march to the call of ‘Left’ or ‘Right’? by Eric Lockett In all my years of political activism I have never had much time for the labels ‘Left’ and ‘Right’. They seem to me to be a cop out that allows lazy commentators to avoid the trouble […]

Australia

By and others ⋅ June 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Australians are living longer, are more educated and have more income to spend, according to the latest edition of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Measures of Australia’s Progress, released on May 31. The report – the third in a series which began in 2002 – looks at a range of factors which influence Australia’s progress, […]

50 Things You Want to Know About World Issues…

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

I enjoy collecting generalizations/facts offered by ‘experts’. Here’s 20 from the excellent book by Keith Suter, 50 Things You Want to Know About World Issues… but were afraid to ask (Bantam 2005) (I’ve not offered page numbers: don’t be lazy: you can easily find them by looking at the relevant chapter headings 🙂 1. More […]

Lifting the lid on the NDOT

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

Soundings No. 33, 23 May 2006 by Alan Matheson It’s on again on June 3. The Governor-General proclaims it; the Prime Minister endorses it; the Foreign Minister will have his Kellogg’s with it in the morning in Adelaide, and in Launceston there will be a barbie for the troops. It’s the National Day of Thanksgiving, […]

Tradional Law or customary Law, an Aboriginal perpsective

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

The following media releases last week are from an Arnhem Land Elder who is a UCA minister (and former moderator of the Northern Synod) through the organisation of Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (ARDS) an agency of the Northern Regional Council of Congress. There are two releases one short and one longer with lots of […]

Global appeal to churches on fragile Sudan peace process

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

Global appeal to churches on fragile Sudan peace process -22/05/06 Leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC) today issued an urgent appeal for the churches and international community to urgently refocus efforts to safeguard the fragile peace process in Sudan. And they warned of the risks of an “ominous humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportion” […]

Iranian President Backs Messianic Cult

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

IRANIAN PRESIDENT BACKS MESSIANIC CULT The key to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline policies may not be hidden in his revolutionary past, or in any of the nuclear facilities dispersed across Iran, but in a small farming village near the holy city of Qom. Here, in what was until only a few years ago a shabby […]

Church Schools (Rowan Williams)

By and others ⋅ June 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/sermons_speeches/060314.htm Archbishop Rowan Williams Church Schools: a National Vision 14th March 2006 Faith schools are in the news again. Fresh government proposals have once again given opportunity for critics to repeat a variety of charges against faith-related education, reinforcing the complaint that public money ought not to support private conviction – especially when private conviction […]

How a Giant Meteor Extinguished Most Life on Earth

By and others ⋅ June 5, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

June 03, 2006 10:44 AM Australia It seems that collisions with rocks from space have been very determinative for life on Earth. The latest find, a 300 mile wide meteor impact crater in Antarctica from some 250 million years ago, is believed to be connected with the extinction of most animal life on Earth, paved […]

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