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Apologetics

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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

Homosexuality: resolving conflicts

A friend wrote: I commend the following site to any leader of a church dealing with these issues, particularly those that find themselves battling between two polar opposite ends of the spectrum: http://www.bridges-across.org/index.htm. It’s a project specifically designed to help churches to deal with conflicts that arise over homosexuality, but can be adapted to just […]

Amazon rainforest

October 2005 The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take ONE MINUTE to read this, and to object to this project, PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below. First, some facts: -The Amazon […]

Police and Domestic Violence

November 01, 2005 11:31 PM The following article has just appeared on strategies being put in place to encourage greater Police tolerance in Victoria – of domestic violence involving Muslim women. http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID034 “In incidents such as domestic violence, police need to have an understanding of the traditions, ways of life and habits of Muslims.” – […]

Battle Lines

(~) Battle Lines God and Government – Eberhard Arnold Excerpted from God’s Revolution, available FREE in e-book format. As fighters down the ages have found, God is often the first conscript when a country goes to war. How many of them ever stopped to consider His predicament in being called on to back two opposing […]

Multiple Choices from the Founders

Sightings 10/31/05 Multiple Choices from the Founders — Martin E. Marty The “Founding Fathers,” or “Founders,” are getting worked over in public affairs, and especially in religious matters, more than ever before. With courts wrestling with issues of church and state, educators fighting over ways to treat faith and faiths in public institutions, and communities […]

Industrial Relations

Money over Humanity Changes to Industrial Relations in Australia October 2005 Theological Reflection and Learning Circle Guide Australia has a long and proud history of settling industrial disputes and promoting co-operation by its almost unique system of arbitration and conciliation. Over the years, this system has helped to defend the rights of workers and promote […]

How foolproof is DNA ?

A demonstration of how foolproof DNA is… It sounds like an open-and-shut-case. A clear DNA match is made between semen from a serious sexual assault and a blood sample from a man known to police. But he did not commit the assault. Years earlier he had received a bone marrow transplant from the real perpetrator, […]

Senior White House Official Indicted

BREAKING NEWS: TOP CHENEY AIDE INDICTED ******************************************** Sojourners calls for an independent investigation of President Bush’s administration to determine if and how intelligence was knowingly manipulated leading up to the war in Iraq. ******************************************** In the week we mourned the death of the 2,000th U.S. soldier in Iraq, I. Lewis Libby, vice presidential chief of […]

Sonic Boom in Gaza – what you won’t read in the press!

27 October 2005 10:16 AM Gaza Residents Experience Effects of the Israeli Sonic Boom By Allyn Dhynes, Advocacy/PB/Comms Manager, WVJWG An alarming new military trend has begun in the Gaza Strip just weeks after the Israeli disengagement. In addition to Israeli helicopter gunship attacks and shelling of Palestinian areas, the Israeli Air Force has begun […]

Intelligent Design: scientists afraid of finding the truth?

By Brian Pollard – 21 October 2005 Should we teach Intelligent Design (ID) in our schools or just Darwinism? Before approaching an answer to this question, it is worth considering the areas of lack of precision in the popular presentations of both these concepts. Darwinism Though Darwin titled his most notable book On the Origin […]