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Apologetics

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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.

Debt Cancellation

One friend asks: Would anyone know if there are any checks and balances proposed for use of monies which are currently paid in interest to rich nations. Will this “saved interest” payments go into health and education or into the pockets of corrupt politicians – in other words, will the poor be any better off […]

A (Conservative) American Complaint

Go Figure COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 […]

Homosexual Marriage (Desmond Tutu)

Note from Rowland: This was sent by a friend to counter the article by Michael Cassidy. Please note that this website is committed to presenting various views on these subjects: do some prayerful thinking and come to your own conclusions! ~~~ We say the expression of love in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship is more than […]

Episcopal Church Reaffirms Position on Homosexuality

NOTTINGHAM: Episcopal Church Reaffirms Position on Homosexuality News Analysis By David W. Virtue NOTTINGHAM, England (6/22/2005)–The Episcopal Church which, for almost 40 years has pushed the normalcy of homosexuality, reaffirmed its position both theologically and practically for the ordination of homosexual persons to all orders of ministry, and appealed, once again, to remain in the […]

Homosexual marriage (Michael Cassidy)

20 June 2005 Update on Marriage Alliance from Michael Cassidy [1] Many of you, we know, have been following and praying for the Constitutional Court case on May 17th in which the Marriage Alliance of SA, which though not a formal project of SACLA, of course is a child of SACLA, was in the courtroom […]

Serving Asylum Seekers

Friday, June 24, 2005 10:08 AM David Spitteler with Gil Cann Few issues have caused such controversy in Australia in recent years as the issue of asylum seekers. The questions of how to regard and respond to people from other countries who are seeking asylum here are matters of constant debate. What is a Christian […]

Does Evil Exist?

Note from a friend: Because I respect and appreciate your work so much I was surprised to see and apparently apocryphal story reported as if it were true. Several respected “urban myth” sites have found no evidence that Einstein ever had a confrontation with a professor similar to the one you have posted. Of course, […]

Evolving Debates

Sightings 6/23/05 — Darren M. Henson The evolution debate has once again taken center stage in Kansas, thrusting the state into the national spotlight. The situation at hand concerns a proposal before the Kansas Board of Education to adopt science standards that describe evolution as “merely a theory.” By this construal, evolution is only one […]

Islamic teachings

A wrote: I don’t totally agree with this… they also rape and kill their own women- but they don’t call it rape or murder – its… classified as “justifiable…whatever”. For example the late Ayatollah Khomeini laid down a law that it’s a sin to execute virgin women in their “Justice” system… so he said that […]

Young earth

From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:37 AM Subject: Re: How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? I have now had a chance to have a quick look through D. Russell Humphreys’ book “Starlight and Time: Solving the Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe”. I’m not surprised that assorted […]