Apologetics
Biotech bliss or miss?
Dear friends You may have seen the article hyping biotech in yesterday’s Australian: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18763430-7583,00.html I sent in a letter, but also penned a 1600-word response. If interested, you can read it below. Thanks Bill Muehlenberg ——————————————————————————– The Dangers of Perfection Bill Muehlenberg Often the most dangerous scenarios come packaged in the most attractive of wrappings. […]
Apostates from Islam
APOSTATES FROM ISLAM – RECENT AFGHANI CASE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG Written by Paul Marshall, senior fellow at Freedom House’s Centre for Religious Freedom, and author of Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari’a Law. The news that Abdul Rahman was given asylum in Italy, despite the Afghan parliament’s last-minute attempts to […]
What Is Truth in Recent Claims about Christian Origins?
Sightings 4/13/06 — Margaret M. Mitchell Before noon last Friday, April 7, we were presented with a trinity of mass media stories about ancient Christianity: a “lost gospel” of Judas appeared on the front page of the New York Times; a British court decided Dan Brown did not plagiarize from Baigent and Leigh’s Holy Blood, […]
The Conflict between Islamic and Western Values
Contesting what is sacred The conflict between Islamic and Western values need not become a war of civilisations, writes Karen Armstrong. The CRISIS occasioned by the Danish cartoons, which depicted the prophet Muhammad as a terrorist, has become a microcosm of the wider conflict between Islam and the Western world. It also represents a clash […]
A Christian Conservative Obsession
Paul Campos: ‘A Christian conservative obsession’ Paul Campos, The Ocala Star-Banner Fifty years ago, the Christian writer C.S. Lewis devoted a couple of chapters of his autobiography to describing the exclusive English public (meaning private) school he attended as a teenager. Lewis portrays “Wyvern” as a cesspool of worldly ambition, where the struggle to get […]
How Many Christians are Persecuted/Killed for their Faith?
Note from Elizabeth Kendal, researcher with Evangelical Alliance: The issue of numbers is very controversial as different stats go by different definitions. Barrett (Christian Encyclopedia) basically counts everyone who could be called a Christian (no matter how nominal) and every death as a “Christian” is counted as a martyr (even if they are killed for […]
Arab Nationalism
A foolish new attraction to oppressive Arab nationalism By Rayyan al-Shawaf Thursday, March 23, 2006 , Daily Star We are at a critical juncture in the history of the Middle East and North Africa. The continuing and oftentimes violent debate over Iraq’s national and religious identity has revived the fortunes of diehard Arab nationalists, who […]
Scientists and skepticism about Evolution
Strange Bedfellows Scientists and Christian clergy ally for science, but is it a bond made in heaven? by Maggie Wittlin • Posted March 24, 2006 On February 20th, the infamously pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute released news that over 500 doctoral scientists had signed its statement “publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian […]
Defeat of Religious Hatred Bill in the U.K.
THE MIRACLE OF HOW GOD HELPED TO DEFEAT RELIGIOUS HATRED BILL IN BRITAIN It is now several weeks since the government suffered their dramatic shock defeat over the Religious Hatred Bill. An analysis of exactly what happened on the day of the vote reveals new details of the true extent of the miraculous result and […]
Islamic Persecution Of Christians
U.S. ARCHBISHOP CANDID ABOUT ISLAMIC PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS Archbishop Charles Chaput, of the diocese of Denver, broke free from politically correct restrictions to speak openly about growing Muslim persecution of Christians, in an address to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, of which he is a member. In his address Archbishop Chaput said, […]
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