Apologetics
Religion and Education in the U.S.
From Ken Smith: I thought people might like a bit of something different to look at. You need to understand how school boards operate in USA to appreciate everything in the following – it;s not just evolution that people bring up; virtually everything taught in schools in USA has come under attack at one time […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? (Don replies to Ken)
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? Ken Smith (K) wrote (May 11): Don’s (D) eighth paragraph in his section 1 reads: Some say, “The Bible is authoritative in matters of faith and practice”. This is dangerously deficient: if we cannot trust the Bible in matters of history, for example, how can we trust it […]
Influence of Church and State
May 2005 In his address to Catch the Fire Ministries on the Australian National Day of Thanksgiving, Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson gave thanks for Christian Hope. Here are some excerpts from his speech: “We need government but we need more than government, we want it to be good government. History is replete with examples […]
Entertaining Religion
Sightings 5/23/05 — Martin E. Marty “The United States is a secular society.” “Elites don’t give religion a break.” “Hollywood ignores the spiritual and the religious.” Whether you hear such lines as truisms, myths, clich ©s, charges, distractions, or delusions, you certainly will hear them, as I do. Then I read the four fat Friday newspapers […]
Sex and the Bible
From Mark From http://www.themarriagebed.com/whatisokay.shtml We often get questions like “Is oral sex OK?” or “My husband wants to make a video of us in the bedroom. Is this a sin?” The reason that we get so many of these questions is probably because the Bible does not specifically speak to everything that a couple can […]
Christianity
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C. S. Lewis
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
“Don” wrote: Well, the topic is “How are we meant to understand Genesis?” I am involved with a Christian ministry called Answers in Genesis; not ‘answers in science’. A friend’s response: Answers in Genesis is derived from Creation Science. It is a fundamentalist science apologetic. Don: It is not because of lack of knowledge that […]
Christianity, Islam and the Challenge of Poverty
20 MAY 2005 Archbishop of Canterbury Lecture: Christianity, Islam and the Challenge of Poverty at Bosniak Institute, Sarajevo 1. It is likely that religious believers of all traditions would begin by warning that ‘poverty’ is not a word with a single definition. We may think first of apparently straightforward material deprivation – a low income, […]
I See Dead People
Sightings 5/19/05 I See Dead People — Seth Perry Body Worlds, an exhibit featuring over 200 preserved pieces of deceased human beings, opened in February at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. In addition to the sundry fragments, there are two dozen human individuals preserved whole, for the most part skinned, and arranged in a […]
George Galloway and the senators
This is the bit quoted on the news last night I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection […]
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