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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.

Interview with Bishop Tom Wright

The World Today – US Anglicans continue support for gay clergy [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1591159.htm] The World Today – Tuesday, 14 March , 2006 12:26:00 Reporter: Toni Hassan ELEANOR HALL: Now to what may be an irreconcilable split in the world-wide Anglican Church over sex and faith. A senior member of […]

Dutch ‘Tolerance’ Test

Gay film to test Dutch migrants March 13, 2006 AMSTERDAM: Two men kissing in a park and a topless female bather are featured in a film that will be shown to would-be immigrants to The Netherlands. The reactions of applicants will be examined to see whether they are able to accept the country’s liberal attitudes. […]

Americans Reveal Their Top Priority in Life

Americans Reveal Their Top Priority in Life 3/6/2006 Most American adults consider themselves to be not merely religious, but deeply spiritual. Thats the claim of 62% of all adults interviewed in the annual religious tracking survey conducted by The Barna Group, of Ventura, California. However, when the religious and spiritual commitments of Americans were studied […]

Canterbury and Rome on road to heal rift of centuries

Times Online -Canterbury and Rome on road to heal rift of centuries The Times March 11, 2006 Canterbury and Rome on road to heal rift of centuries By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent DR ROWAN WILLIAMS, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is expected to make his first formal visit to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome this year […]

Why are we here?

Why are we here? by Tom Fox February 2006 The day before he was abducted in Iraq, with three other members of Christian Peacemakers, Tom Fox wrote the following reflection. “Be patterns, be examples in every country, place, or nation that you visit, so that your bearing and life might communicate with all people. Then […]

Protestantism and Power

Sightings 3/13/06 Protestantism and Power — Martin E. Marty “Lessons of the old mainline for the new mainline” headlines the guest column in the conservative-to-moderate Christianity Today (March 2006). Speaking up for the “old” is Jason Byassee, a youngish editor of the moderate-to-liberal Christian Century. He begins with elegy: “We mainliners had our day in […]

World Poverty

March 09, 2006 Inequality the real contest of the Games THE destiny of 4500 elite athletes will be decided in just a few days at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Some will win gold and return home as heroes. Others will not get past the early heats. As an Australian, I want to see our […]

Our Moral Choice

Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:12 AM Our Moral Choice by Jim Wallis On Tuesday, March 7, Jim Wallis spoke on Capitol Hill at a “Rally to Protect America’s Priorities” on the proposed 2007 budget, sponsored by the Emergency Campaign for America’s Priorities, ACORN, and the U.S. Student Association. Following are his remarks. I want to […]

Skeptical of Darwin

One friend wrote: Whatever academic qualifications a person may have or none of them, a person is an Atheistic Evolutionist who accepts that from an original unicellular organism, or organisms (that magically came into existence without the creative powers of a Supernatural Living Being – an event that is outside of science because a scientific […]

Should Children Read the Bible?

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