Apologetics
Big Macs
A BIG MAC The communion wafer of consumption. Not really food but the promise of food. Whatever it tastes like, whatever it is made of, once it touches lips A Big Mac is tran substantiated into the mythological hamburger. It is, with Perrier, one of the sacred objects of the leading philosophical school of the late-twentieth […]
Sport & Religion
With the glut of sport we Australians have had recently – Footie finals, Ashes, NRL etc, I’ve been thinking a bit about sport as religion. Does anyone know of any good books on this topic – especially as it relates to us sport mad Aussies? Response: Try Tony Carroll, Ego and Soul: The Modern West […]
Death and the Compass
Sightings 9/22/05 — Brian Britt The July 7 bombings in London were made especially menacing by an Islamist website that claimed that the four sites of attack were designed to stamp a “burning cross” on the city. According to the Guardian, the attacks “also suggest a symbolic significance in selecting King’s Cross station as the […]
Girl-time at the High Court, but not in the church
Soundings, 21 September 2005 by Rod Benson We learned yesterday that a new judge was on its way to the High Court. Attorney-General Philip Ruddock announced the appointment of Victorian judge Justice Susan Crennan to replace retiring judge Michael McHugh in November. This is the fifth Howard government appointment to the Court’s seven-member bench, and […]
We Can Help to Make Poverty History
From a pastor-friend: Sunday we watched a DVD in church where Australian school children told us how poor the children in other countries were because they don’t sleep on beds, they have to do chores all day and have limited access to education, which problems we could address with child sponsorship. I just wonder whether […]
Teenagers and Sex
Report Shows Troubling Statistics About Teen Sex By KELLY BOGGS “At 50 percent, we’re talking about a major social norm,” Claire Brindis said. “It’s part of kids’ lives.” The professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco was not talking about braces or cell phones; she was speaking about oral sex. According […]
Science and Augustine
From Mark answersingenesis CRAP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit NO ANSWERS IN GENESIS http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/ “Creationism is not the alternative to Evolution – ignorance is.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Theology is not science. Science is not theology. SCIENTIFIC METHOD: Here are the facts. What conclusions can we draw from them? CREATIONIST METHOD: Here is the conclusion (stated in the bible as interpreted […]
Catholics Today
Control Issues Sightings 9/19/05 Control Issues — Martin E. Marty Twice a year, two-score Midwest historians of Christianity, more of them Roman Catholic than not, gather at the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame. We celebrate and criticize one book each meeting. This time it was Catholic University of America Professor Leslie Woodcock […]
Infanticide, Forced Abortions, Sterilizations
Time magazine reports the situation as “one of the most brutal sterilization campaigns of recent years.” (LifeSiteNews.com) A massive campaign by China’s population-control authorities is underway in the country’s Shandong province, southeast of Beijing, with accounts of horrible atrocities, including infanticide, forced abortions on women — even of those in the ninth month of pregnancy […]
Homosexuality: old school and new school
From a netfriend: Part of the problem in “finding a way through” is that people tend to make up their own reality as they go, and this “made up” reality protects them from the inconsistencies in their beliefs. Let me give an example. I live amongst many ex and currently serving military personnel. I’m told […]
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