Apologetics
Acts of God or sins of humanity?
by Wes Granberg-Michaelson From a vacation cottage Karin and I watched on TV as the desolation unfolded in New Orleans and the Gulf coast. Through that agonizing week we sat helpless with millions, while the world’s most technologically powerful nation could not provide food, water, and rescue to fellow citizens whose desperate faces filled our […]
A Life of Unlearning (Anthony Venn-Brown)
Note (to save anyone the trouble of sending hate emails): articles like the following are reproduced here for mature/compassionate consideration, not because I necessarily agree with them. Rowland. ~~ A Life of Unlearning Coming Out of the Church – One Man’s Struggle by Anthony Venn-Brown Prologue […]
Blasphemy About New Orleans: A God with whom I am not familiar
Note from Rowland: Tony Campolo has a habit in ‘nice’ churches of using a naughty word, pausing, and commenting ‘Now you’ll probably be more upset about my using that word than over 1 billion people starving.’ Warning: there’s a couple of naughty words here. If you get upset, well…. ~~ Blasphemy About New Orleans: A […]
Petrol Prices
Here’s an email I’ve received from several friends. Forgive me if I’m a bit cynical about whether this would work, but it’s an interesting example of how the powerless consumer can bit back. Rowland. ~~~ IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN AUSTRALIA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF PETROL FOR ONE DAY AND […]
Katrina: What the Waters Have Revealed
What the waters have revealed by Jim Wallis In what may be the most catastrophic natural disaster in American history, the waters of Hurricane Katrina are washing away our national denial of just how many Americans are living in poverty, our reluctance to admit the still persistent connection of race and poverty in America, and […]
Debating Darwin
Sightings 9/8/05 Editor’s Note: Today’s issue of Sightings is the third in a series of three columns treating the evolution/intelligent design debate. These articles will appear along with responses by Sightings contributors Richard A. Rosengarten and Darren Henson, as well as medical ethicist Farr A. Curlin, on the Religion & Culture Web Forum. Please feel […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [48]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 048, 2-8 Sep 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Abortion A seemingly inoffensive debate on women’s reproductive health has blown up into a full-scale fight over abortion in the Senate. “We have at […]
M illennium Project (Jeffrey Sachs)
September 08, 2005 4:42 PM Telephone Press Briefing for Journalists with Economist Jeffrey Sachs Discussing Administration Efforts to Retreat from the Millennium Development Goals August 31, 2005 http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=1758 With Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the UN Millennium Project and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is internationally renowned for his work with […]
Euthanasis: Elderly Deserve Protection (Rowan Williams)
6 SEPTEMBER 2005 Archbishop of Canterbury – Elderly Deserve Protection The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams gave a sombre warning that a more permissive approach to euthanasia and assisted suicide in Britain could undermine fundamental commitments to the needs of the elderly. In a keynote speech on the challenges confronting an aging society, Dr. […]
Sitting Down for His Rights
Sightings 9/5/05 Sitting Down for His Rights — Martin E. Marty Macro-debates over religion in public life are usually grounded in micro-situations. Events that on their own local level seem insignificant often set into motion actions that reach to the U.S. Supreme Court or find the front pages. Thus debates over the coercive use of […]
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