Apologetics
Isn’t That War?
Eberhard Arnold From an August 1934 address given at the Rhoen Bruderhof (near Fulda, Germany), with visitors from England who had reported on the peace movement there. ============== I really believe that there is much good said and done for peace and for uniting the nations. But I think that this is still not enough. […]
Hetero and Homosexuality
From a netfriend: I think God is basically an utilitarian. That is, his commands are given to us because they give us guidance in the practicality of living a loving life – having the character of Jesus. Thus while the utility of commands not to murder, steal or commit adultery are self-evident, it makes no […]
Religious deception and bribery
Rev. Dr. Sandra Bochonok. “While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sum of money to the soldiers and said, ‘Tell people, “[Jesus’] disciples came by […]
Fair Wages
Christopher Pearson: Poverty of church ideas October 22, 2005 AT least one unambiguously good thing is going to come out of the debate over industrial relations reform. The churches and their social welfare agencies are going to have to decide where they stand on the problem of unemployment. In saying so, I should make it […]
Updates: IR, the Homeless, Anti-Terror Laws, Intelligent Design etc.
From a contact/friend in the Uniting Church of Australia 21st October 2005 Schools failing to pass on values Public and private schools are spending too much time teaching students to earn a living and too little time exploring beliefs and values that shape lives, a leading education expert says. READ ON Shelters: de-facto mental health […]
An Efficient ride up the garden path
An efficient ride up the garden path October 19, 2005 Is the route to riches justified if people are being lost along the way, asks Ross Gittins. THE thing that worries me about economic rationalists – and the business people who put the rationalists’ policies into practice – is their tendency to eat their babies. […]
Media Piety
Sightings 10/20/05 Media Piety — David Morgan Christianity has never been shy about using visual and print media to undertake its work of evangelism, devotion, worship, and socialization of the young. From icons to mass-distributed tracts and bibles, from radio and television broadcasting to the Internet, the Christian use of media has taught modern advertising […]
Moral Hysteria and the Persecution of Difference
by John Buell In 1692, the “city upon a hill” faced unprecedented crises. The Crown had revoked its charter and ordered the arch-Puritan colony to tolerate dissenting faiths. Puritans were engaged in a bloody war with Native Americans, who had decimated Casco (Portland) and York. A military expedition to Quebec returned to Boston with heavy […]
Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty
Archbishop of Canterbury : David Nicholls Memorial Lecture ‘Law, Power and Peace: Christian Perspectives on Sovereignty’ The University Church of St Mary the Virgin Thursday 29 September 2005 The Iraq War was fought for the sake of freedom and democracy, so we are insistently told. And just as insistently, the news from Iraq tells us […]
Let us keep intelligent design out of biology class rooms
Let us keep intelligent design out of biology class rooms. By Peter Sellick There has been a bit of a ruckus about how biology is taught in our schools. Instead of us teaching just the theory of evolution according to Charles Darwin, it has been proposed that we also teach the idea that evolution did […]
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