Apologetics
Islam Remains Number One Danger To The Christian Church
Exclusive Interview By David W. Virtue http://www.virtueonline.org 12/19/2005 The Rev. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo is the international director of the Barnabas Fund based in England. The Fund is a ministry which assists Christian minorities in the Islamic world and in other areas where Christians undergo persecution. Dr. Sookhdeo was recently in the United States where he […]
Observing the Holidays
Sightings 12/19/05 Observing the Holidays — Martin E. Marty On this day after the Festival of the Nativity, let’s take off from sighting religious news. Relax — it’s 340 days until the next “December wars” break out. This is a “down” week for everyone but store clerks, until Saturday, New Year’s Eve (St. Sylvester’s Day, […]
Advent Reflection: Top Five Reasons Why I Got Arrested
Top Five Reasons Why I Got Arrested this Advent Season by Christa Mazzone 1) As a Christian, I cannot stand idly by during a time of increased poverty, war, and national tragedy as Congress attempts to cut billions of dollars to life-giving programs that assist our nation’s most vulnerable, while at the same time they […]
Christians and Politics in Australia 2005
It’s cool to be Christian ——————————————————————————– God and his teachings are on a roll, enjoying a surge in public support, writes Jill Rowbotham ——————————————————————————– 16dec05 BEFORE Peter Garrett was a rock star, before he was an environmental campaigner, before he was the federal member for Kingsford Smith in Sydney, he was a Christian. “I would […]
Discoveries at Megiddo Prison
* Shalom! Rowland Croucher * * http://jmm.org.au/ * (16300+ articles, 3500 clean jokes/stories) http://victoriaconcordiacrescit.blogspot.com/ * Sightings 12/15/05 Discoveries at Megiddo Prison — Laurie Brink The recent discovery in Israel of a structure that may have served as a Christian church in the third or fourth century has captured the imagination of early Christian scholars, archaeologists, […]
Creation vs Evolution
A creationist wrote: The research by Creation scientists is NOT all religion – ie. Christianity. Creation Scientists are looking at the same evidence, but are coming to different conclusions. Rapid rocks – Granites – they do not need millions of years of cooling. http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v21/i1/rocks.asp Ken Smith responded: Now that’s very interesting. In the 19th century […]
Comments on Context
Sightings 12/12/05 Comments on Context — Martin E. Marty “December wars”: Do we need, and would you want, one more op-ed about them? Already fifty years ago, when I began to moonlight in journalism, we were worrying about the secularization and commercialization of Christmas. Now the debate revolves around its politicization. Listen carefully: It is […]
INDONESIA: Muslim leaders condemn suicide bombing
ABC Asia Pacific recently carried a very significant story which is reverberating around Indonesia (and elsewhere) and is having a major effect on perceptions of so-called radical Muslims. In short, the current leader of the organisation set up by Abu Bakar Bashir (the Indonesian Mujahedin Assembly) has been very forceful in distancing himself and the […]
Reclaiming Christmas
From a netfriend: I went through the whole of the big shopping centre here and could not find one book on the Christmas story, for children … plenty on santa and also a story told by a donkey about a baby born in a stable one night but it was hardly even similar to the […]
The Universe
From a scientifically-informed netfriend: If there is sufficient matter in the universe, the universe could be bound but without an edge and without a centre. This might sound strange. Imagine, as an analogy, instead of our intuitive 3D world, a two dimensional world. Imagine flatland creatures living in this world. Now imagine if, that through […]
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