Apologetics
Discrimination/persecution
I wrote: However – and here let’s take the example of Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country but not an ‘Islamic state’ – the slaughter of Christians by folks who’d _like_ that country to be an Islamic state is probably currently second highest in the world (guess the first 🙂 P.S. Sudan Another (Brit) responded: Yes, good […]
The Judeo-Christian Tradition
What are we fighting for? Bill Muehlenberg In the busyness of fighting the many skirmishes in the culture wars, be it the stem cell debate, the battle over marriage and family, the assault on childhood or the controversies surrounding Intelligent Design, we sometimes lose track of the larger war that we are in. While the […]
Religious Tolerance
January 12, 2006 2:21 PM Julia Irwin’s Shameful Speech By Mark Durie January 2006 On November 28, 2005 The Hon Julia Irwin, Labor member for Fowler in the New South Wales lower house, presented a speech entitled ‘Religious Tolerance’. In her speech Irwin made an extended comment on the Bible, to counter claims that some […]
The SBC and Political Violence
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has castigated Sirius Satellite Radio’s outrageous new shock jock for his arrogance and ungodly speech. They’ve called him an “embarrassment” who “bears responsibility to retract, rethink, repent, and restate his position” after his on-air endorsement of political assassination. But the SBC — America’s largest Protestant denomination, with more than 16.3 […]
Beyond Scopes
Sightings 1/12/06 Beyond Scopes — John Witte, Jr. Eighty years ago, the nation stood transfixed by the spectacle of two giants, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, fighting valiantly over the place of creation and evolution in public schools. Bryan, three-time presidential candidate, defended creationism as “inerrant fact” and denounced evolution as “atheistic fiction.” Darrow, […]
Evolution and facts
Evolution happens. That’s how we got those anti-biotic resistant critters… …”Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will […]
What Would Jesus Have On His Ipod?
In a New Beliefnet.Com Online Poll, 55% Vote That Jesus Wouldn’t Even Own an iPod New York, NY – January 9, 2006 — Beliefnet, Inc., the leading multi-faith spirituality media company and online community, today announced the results of their online survey on “What Would Jesus Have on his iPod?” More than 55% of those […]
Archbishop – Christians should visit ‘struggling’ Bethlehem
ACNS 4092 | LAMBETH | 9 JANUARY 2005 Archbishop – Christians should visit ‘struggling’ Bethlehem The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has urged Christians throughout the world to make efforts to visit Bethlehem as a place of pilgrimage and to remember the ‘struggling’ town in their prayers. In a letter presented to Dr Victor […]
Competing Priorities? Evangelism, Holy Living and Serving the Poor
The Micah Challenge campaign had a good year in 2005. It called on the government for more and better aid, trade justice, and debt relief, for the poor countries in our world. Although there is a long way to go in eliminating global poverty – where a staggering 30,000 children die of poverty-related causes each […]
Happy New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE! I hope 2006 is full of all things good for you and yours. I have made some New Year wishes – humourless I’m afraid but I don’t find the world around me a joy-filled place much as I want it to be joyful and creative and compassionate. In fact, I […]
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