Apologetics
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [41]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 041, 15-21 July 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Aboriginal & indigenous issues A report to federal and state governments shows that, with a few exceptions, we are not making much progress on […]
Interview with an Australian Muslim Sheikh
INTRODUCTION: Peter Overton: Two things really struck us while working on this story. First, we’re in the middle of the biggest population shift in more than 1000 years, as Muslim populations grow steadily in countries like Britain, France and yes, Australia. Secondly, the London bombers were home grown, seemingly ordinary Englishmen. Now, there’s do doubt […]
Designs of the Times
Sightings 7/21/05 — Richard A. Rosengarten The installation of a new pope brings its own kind of honeymoon: Catholics and (to the degree that they take an interest) the wider world usually await the initial encyclical of a new pontiff before beginning to draw conclusions about the future directions the Catholic Church will take. In […]
Quotes about Religion
QUOTES – General Wisdom, About Religion, and by Christians Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely […]
Postcard from London (A Family Joins the Battle against Terrorism)
(!) Postcard from London A Family Joins the Battle against Terrorism Bernard Hibbs LONDON, 23 July 2005 – As I start to write this article in an Internet cafe in East London, I look at the BBC and see that there is more news of terror. This time, there has been an incident at the […]
Quoting the Quran
Quoting the Quran Beware sensational translations of holy verse, torn out of context By HUSSAM AYLOUSH Editor’s note: When a reader recently wrote to us with a provocative question about the nature of Islam, we sought a response from a Muslim leader from the Inland region. The query and answer are published here. Peaceful precepts? […]
Ambrose Beirce on Christianity and Christ
CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo! The godly multitudes […]
Wellbeing Manifesto
Well-Being Manifesto Many Australians feel that the political system has let them down, and that governments are not responding to their real concerns. We seem to have lost sight of a vision for a better society and to have entrusted our future to wherever the market takes us. This website presents a new manifesto, one […]
Extreme Islam
15 July 2005 Extreme Islam The Australian editorial, “Homegrown terror raises tough issues”, (14/7/05) notes the murderous ideology of the “radical undercurrent within Islam” and the need for Australia’s imams to denounce it absolutely. But there is a real problem here, and that problem is the Koran itself. A close friend of Leeds suicide bomber […]
Radical Islam in Europe
Sightings 7/18/05 Radical Islam in Europe — Martin E. Marty The Islamic Center in Munich, started by ex-Nazis, is now the base of radical Islam in Germany. Tens of thousands of Muslims in the Soviet Army switched sides to fight for Hitler. They stayed to build up a community influenced by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, […]
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