Apologetics
The Moral Status of Animals
The Moral Status of Animals Colloquy: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Martha C. Nussbaum, a University of Chicago philosopher and legal scholar, about the rights of animals. By MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM In 55 BC, the Roman leader Pompey staged a combat between humans and elephants. Surrounded in the arena, the animals […]
Implications Of Saudi Funding To Western Academic Institutions
GENERAL http://www.isic-centre.org 07 February 2006 IMPLICATIONS OF SAUDI FUNDING TO WESTERN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS (PART 1 OF 2) Introduction Recent news reports claim that the Saudi prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Al-Saud, a nephew of the late King Fahd, has donated $20 million each to Harvard and Georgetown universities in the US. These funds will be used […]
Bono at the National Prayer Breakfast
Thursday, February 02, 2006 Transcript: Bono remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast Remarks – as prepared for delivery and courtesy of DATA – by Bono to the National Prayer Breakfast; Feb. 2, 2006. BONO: Thank you. Mr. President, First Lady, King Abdullah, Other heads of State, Members of Congress, distinguished guests… Please join me in […]
Bono’s Best Sermon Yet
Editors’ Note ++++++++++++++++++++ The National Prayer Breakfast is normally a time for reaffirming spiritual truths and testifying to the power of faith in people’s individual lives, but not so much a moment for prophetic and controversial social utterances. There have been exceptions – when Sen. Mark Hatfield spoke courageously about the moral “shame” of the […]
Palestinian Christians To Be Scapegoats For Danish Cartoonists?
03 February 2006 PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS TO BE SCAPEGOATS FOR DANISH CARTOONISTS? Gunmen from Islamic Jihad and Fatah announced their intention yesterday of attacking churches in Gaza in protest against the cartoons of Muhammad published in Denmark last September. But the newly elected armed Islamist group Hamas publicly rejected the targeting of churches over this issue, […]
Atheism
Definition: “Atheist” Atheism is usually taken to be belief that god does not exist. More recently, however, some atheists have attempted to define atheism in more cautious terms, as nothing more than the absence of belief in God. This has complicated matters, introducing an ambiguity into the definition of “atheism”. One solution to this ambiguity […]
UK religious vilification bill victory
2 February 2006 Dear Friends, Colin Hart from the UK Christian Institute phoned me at a quarter to midnight London time on Tuesday 31 January (10.15 am Wednesday here) with some great news. A little earlier in the House of Commons, MPs had voted by a majority of one (283:282) to reject Tony Blair’s Racial […]
Suicide and Abortion
FINNISH STUDY SHOWS WOMEN SUICIDE RATE HIGHEST AFTER AN ABORTION Finland’s National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES), has published a study in the European Journal for Public Health, which states that “deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248% higher in the year following an abortion,” among women of reproductive age […]
Iraqi Churches Bombed: Link With Danish Cartoons?
02 February 2006 IRAQI CHURCHES BOMBED: LINK WITH DANISH CARTOONS? A spate of car bombs exploded outside churches in Iraq last Sunday 29th January in what appears to have been a coordinated attack. The explosions occurred within a half hour period, apparently chosen to coincide with the time at which Christians would be going to […]
Should RU486 be available in Australia?
Excerpts from a UntingJustice Australia letter to all Federal parliamentarians. 2 February 2006 Dear Members and Senators, I write to you following the recent Senate Inquiry into RU486 and the upcoming parliamentary debate around its use in Australia. Over recent months there has been significant media coverage of this issue, including a marked focus on […]
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