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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Bashed by Big Brother

By and others ⋅ July 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

5 July 2005 Bashed by Big Brother Dear Friends, I don’t normally write to you about pornography. I guess I really don’t want to think too much about things that could debase and destroy my mind and even my marriage. But in the last couple of days I have realised I need to share some […]

Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality

By and others ⋅ July 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality” By: The American Psychological Association [This pamphlet is available from APA, 750 First St NE, Washington DC 20002-4242, phone 202-336-5700] Q: What is sexual orientation? A: Sexual orientation is one of the four components of sexuality and is distinguished by an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attraction to individuals of […]

Is Genesis One History?

By and others ⋅ July 5, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(Ken Smith) writes: At the same time as we have been discussing Genesis on a.r.c there has been a debate on teh Sydney Morning Herald Webdiary on the topic “Did the universe and life evolve, or was it specially created in 6 days?” You can read the opening statements from both sides, with brief biographies […]

Church Leaders call for Action on Poverty

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Church Leaders call for Action on Poverty London Forum on G-8 Wednesday 29 June 2005 Photographs for this item can be found here: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/40/00/acns4000.cfm [ACNS Special Report by Robert Bergner, Communications Intern] A Forum of church leaders from around the world has called for decisive action and a firm commitment on poverty eradication from the […]

Debt Cancellation and Poor Countries

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Debt Cancellation and Poor Countries (From a friend who works with an international NGO): It’s good to be concerned with accountability issues, however the issue is very complex, and would take a book to address, but here is a shorter answer: Debt relief being provided is already conditional on countries developing and implementing national owned […]

Sports Ministry Planning Guides

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Media Release Well-Being Australia July 1, 2005 Dr Mark Tronson Australian Cricket Chaplain and Chairman of Well-Being Australia is delighted to announce that the highly acclaimed “Sports Ministry Planning Guides” are now on his ministry web site http://www.bushorchestra.com 22 “how-to” instructionals on Sports Ministry are now only a button away, some of them include Sports […]

Judging a Sportsman’s Morals

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Press Release Well-Being Australia NONSENCE CRICKET CLAIM Dr Mark Tronson Australian Cricket Chaplain for 22 years says that South Australia’s Family First Andrew Evans’ claim that Cricket Australia should have been concentrating on Shane Warne’s wife and family is a typical political nonsense response (The Australian 28.6.05). “People make decisions for themselves. In my experience, […]

Religious Vilification – EA on the latest…

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Subj: Australia: Victims of Victoria’s Religious Tolerance Law. ———————————————————— AUSTRALIA: VICTIMS OF VICTORIA’S RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE LAW ———————————————————— Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance (R&RT) Act has already produced many victims. The first victim has been the religious harmony that was pervasive throughout Victoria (a south eastern state of Australia) before the Act’s implementation. The R&RT Act […]

Homosexual marriage

By and others ⋅ June 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

From a netfriend: In the Pew Forum survey of religion and homosexuality in the USA, on-line at http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=39 : “Since 1973, the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, has been tracking whether Americans believe sexual relations between adults of the same sex are always wrong, almost […]

Debt Cancellation

By and others ⋅ June 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Another response: Yes, the best port of call for answers to questions like that (and that is a very common question) is to go straight to the source. But to answer that question briefly, yes, there are considerable checks and balances. It is part of the conditions of the cancellation of debt that they be […]

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