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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.

If The World Only Had 100 People

(This has been around for a while, but worth recalling…) IF THE WORLD ONLY HAD 100 PEOPLE Let us not be stopped by that which divides us but look for that which unites us If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the […]

Papua

Sent by Des O’Neill: The people of West Papua urgently need your help. They are facing genocide at the hands of the Indonesian Military. The US Government (past and present) is also complicit in this genocide. The reason is simple – MONEY. West Papua is resource rich the most noteworthy being the huge Freeport Copper […]

Da Vinci Code – more

Dear friends To win in a battle we need to be equipped, trained and battle-ready. I remind you the a major offensive against the Christian faith which begins on May 18. The Da Vinci Code film will undoubtedly sway many. (40 million copies of the book in 44 languages have already been sold, and countless […]

The church and gay unions: the most spiritual of divisions

The church and gay unions: the most spiritual of divisions James Barr Monday, 3 April 2006 DESPITE protests by the Australian Christian Lobby and some churches over the ACT Civil Unions Bill, the opposition to civil unions for same-sex couples among the churches is far from unanimous. There have always been homosexual people within local […]

Reframing Social Justice

Reframing Social Justice By Noel Preston – posted Monday, 1 May 2006 In the last three or four decades I have rejoiced when the forces promoting social justice were seemingly victorious: when the Whitlam and Fraser governments legislated for human rights; when people power swept the Filipino dictator Marcos out of office; when the segregation […]

Challenging the Da Vinci Code film

Advertising campaign to challenge Da Vinci Code film Anglican Church launching cinema and multimedia strategy http://www.challengingdavinci.com The Anglican Church in Sydney will launch a cinema advertising campaign this month aimed at challenging the claims made by the Da Vinci Code that Jesus was not God, did not die on the cross and that he married […]

Islam and Reform

POPE BELIEVES ISLAM INCAPABLE OF REFORM Pope Benedict XVI believes that unlike other religions, Islam cannot be reformed and, therefore, is incompatible with democracy, according to a Catholic leader who participated with the pontiff in a secretive meeting on the subject. Fr. Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla., and founder of […]

I Want To Be A Clone

written by Steve Taylor I’d gone through so much other stuff That walking down the aisle was tough But now I know it’s not enough I asked the Lord into my heart They said that was the way to start But now you’ve got to play the part CHORUS Be a clone and kiss conviction […]

What is a Christian?

#1 wrote: Define Christian. (please) Mark responded: Dictionary definition ……… n. 1.. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. 2.. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus. … A follower or disciple of Jesus; someone who believes Jesus is the […]

The Most Segregated Hour

Three new books examine the racial divide in our worship. By Michael Fuquay “The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South” By Paul Hemphill Free Press, 235 pp. “Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights” Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr. University of Kentucky Press, 312 pp. “Science, […]