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Apologetics

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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.

West Papua

AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER THE PLIGHT OF WEST PAPUA This speech by the Rev Fred Nile in the NSW State Parliament of which he is a member, outlines concerns relative to the current situation in West Papua of which all Australian should be made aware. “I draw the attention of the House to genocide in […]

World Cup shame

1 June 2006 World Cup shame Dear Friends, You may have noticed that the sports pages of our daily papers have been full of the latest reports on World Cup soccer – due to begin in Germany on 9 June, lasting a month. What you probably haven’t been told is news I have just received […]

Intelligent Watches / Intelligent Design

Sightings 6/1/06 Intelligent Watches — Richard A. Rosengarten While Cardinal Schoenborn and the Roman Catholic Church’s astronomer have officially indicated that it is possible to accept the science of evolution while remaining in good standing with the Church, the idea of intelligent design persists in at least this nation’s conversation as a challenge to that […]

Gay Clergy

A netfriend wrote: It seems that gay clergy are not against the wishes of very many other Christians, however. I replied: If you wanted to make a few valid generalizations here, they’d probably look like this: 1. Most Christians are ‘against’ the idea of gay clergy (especially if you factor in Christians in the Third […]

Editorial, Chicago Tribune: If gays marry, churches could suffer

If gays marry, churches could suffer By Douglas W. Kmiec, a professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law May 26, 2006 After an acrimonious session in which Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) stomped out and Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) bid him “good riddance,” the Senate Judiciary Committee approved sending the federal marriage […]

Bible and Koran are violent

Bible, Koran are violent, but read between the lines, say academics By Linda Morris May 27, 2006 THE Bible has as many invocations to violence as the Koran, if not more, says an American biblical scholar and peace activist. There is a darker side to the sacred text that many Christians will not admit. Alongside […]

Racism and Methodism

African Americans and United Methodism The grand plea [in favor of slaves] is, ‘They are authorized by law.’ But can law, human law, change the nature of things? Can it turn darkness into light, or evil into good? By no means. Notwithstanding ten thousand laws, right is right, and wrong is wrong still. There must […]

Islamic Anti-Semitism

Andrew Bostom video Dear friends, Andrew Bostom gives a compelling and comprehensive overview of the history of Islamic anti-semitism, including a unique journey through the 20th century. This lecture moves from the introduction of yellow patches to be worn by Jews during the early centuries of the Islamic ‘Golden Age’, through the Arab-Nazi plans to […]

Bible supports gay partnerships, says leading Anglican bishop

-28/05/06 The Rt Rev Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, has declared that anti-gay proponents in the churches need to be “converted” to see that homosexual unions are supported by a faithful, modern reading of the Bible. He also reaffirmed his conviction that an openly gay man should be allowed to be appointed a bishop […]

Sale Of Pakistani Christian Children As Slaves Is Funding Islamic Militants

25 May 2006 EXPOSED – SALE OF PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN CHILDREN AS SLAVES IS FUNDING ISLAMIC MILITANTS Gul Khan, a leading member of a militant Islamic organisation based in Pakistan, is funding its activities through the sale of Christian children into slavery. The children, aged between 6 and 12, are abducted from their homes in remote […]