Apologetics
The Enneagram: Psychic Babble
(Note: articles critical of tools like the Enneagram do not necessarily represent my views. They are posted here for mature thought/discernment. Rowland). ~~ by Mary Jo Anderson ——————————————————————————– No fad has swept through Catholic seminaries and retreat centers in recent years with as much fervor as has the Enneagram.* Teaching the Enneagram, variously billed as […]
Believing and Doing: The President’s Religion
Sightings 5/12/05 Believing and Doing: The President’s Religion — Andrew R. Murphy Asked to comment on the role of faith in contemporary politics at his April 28, 2005, news conference, President Bush responded with three salient statements, enumerated here in order of their delivery: 1) “I view religion as a personal matter”; 2) “I think […]
How are we meant to understand SCIENCE?
(From a friend): SCIENCE 1. What is science? Nature of Science from http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/nature/index.shtml Understanding how science works allows one to easily distinguish science from non-science. Thus, to understand biological evolution, or any other science, it is essential to begin with the nature of science. What is Science? Science is a particular way of understanding the […]
Bertrand Russell: Why I am not a Christian
Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell [I remember reading Bertrand Russell’s book with this title when working as a staffworker with students in the late 1960s, and was unimpressed with his tendency to take the least likely explanation of something, say, from the Gospels, and proceed to argue from his assumption as […]
Are Christians Persecuted in America?
Thursday, May 5, 2005 Christians assume persecution complex By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON — The state of America’s political discourse is such that the president has felt it necessary to declare that unbelievers can be good Americans. In last week’s prime-time news conference, he said: “If you choose not to worship, you’re equally as patriotic […]
Primitive Christianity
From a friend: Terry Lane “God: The Interview” (ABC; Sydney: 1993) Do you know why the Black death took such a terrible toll in Europe in the fourteenth century? Because the Jesuits had this amazing notion that their were witches everywhere and that cats were their familiars – so it wasn'[t enough to burn the […]
A New Manifesto
The Manifesto for Wellbeing is the foundation of a new politics committed to promoting our wellbeing rather than relentlessly focusing on the economy and money. We can direct the benefits of economic growth towards renewing our society rather than encouraging ever more materialism. We can build a society in which we have fulfilling work, control […]
And We Wonder Why
In light of the many recent school shootings Let’s see … I think it started when Madeline Murray O’Hare complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools … And we said … OK Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school … the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt […]
Anti-discrimination
Centre for Christian Ethics Eastwood 2122 OCCASIONAL PAPER 05 Education not legislation: A critique of the Breen Bill 9 MAY 2005 Re: Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Tolerance) Bill 2005 NSW MLC Peter Breen has introduced the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Tolerance) Bill 2005 to the NSW Parliament. Its provisions are arguably counter-productive and there are better ways […]
ANZAC Day can change your life
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. On Anzac Day last year, my two eldest sons and I woke early, well before dawn. We drove in the dark along almost deserted suburban roads to join thousands of fellow citizens in an “ANZAC Ceremony of Remembrance” in the […]
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