Apologetics
Mormons and Black Refugees
OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER Why did a Mormon-owned radio station fire me when I used my show to help poor, black Katrina survivors put down roots in Utah? BY: RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH FOR http://WWW.BELIEFNET.COM Story to be at 8:00 PM September 14 I am a white man, but I have always had a special relationship with […]
War on terrorism morphs into a war on dissent
These letters are from the Sydney Morning Herald: ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ War on terrorism morphs into a war on dissent September 13, 2005 There are security concerns about Scott Parkin, such that it takes six immigration officers to nab him mid-cappuccino in a Melbourne cafe (“Outcry over plan to deport activist as a security […]
Justice
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Gays and change
“I anticipated some misuse of the study results but I did not anticipate that some of the media would say such ridiculous things as that the study raised the issue of homosexuality and choice. Of course no one chooses to be homosexual and no one chooses to be heterosexual. I did anticipate, and in my […]
Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters
September 14, 2005 Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters (LifeSiteNews.com) A doctor from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans has admitted to euthanizing patients, rather than leaving them to potential death at the hands of looters. In an interview with the UK’s The Mail on Sunday, a doctor, whose name was protected by the euthanasia-supportive […]
Let’s have a proper scientific debate
August 18, 2005 Intelligent design evokes strong responses. Time for cool investigation, writes Barney Zwartz. Opponents of intelligent design theories fear the evolution debate has been hijacked by the fundamentalists. I fear they are right, but it’s scientistic (blind faith in science) fundamentalists, not religious. Intelligent design theorists say evolution is largely demonstrable but is […]
Gone With the Water (National Geographic – Oct 2004)
(From a friend): Everything that happened in New Orleans was predicted long before Hurricane Katrina hit. The following excerpt in National Geographic was written in October 2004. If one didn’t know better you’d think your were reading a current issue of TIME or Newsweek! GONE WITH THE WATER (by Joel K. Bourne Jr.) http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/ (An […]
Discussing religion
The late Sydney Ahlstrom, the distinguished historian of American religion at Yale, used to say that people should always discuss religion as if a practising member of every denomination were in the room.
Poverty: The Larger Shame
The Larger Shame By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF September 6, 2005 The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor families. It has also underscored the Bush administration’s ongoing reluctance or ineptitude in helping the poorest Americans. The […]
12 Myths About Hunger
Author:Frances Moore Lapp ©, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset, co-director of Food First, with Luis Esparza Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught. Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots […]
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