Apologetics
God’s falling from grace
James Murray 23dec04 BEHIND the bumper crowds that traditionally file into churches at Christmas is the realisation that growing secularism in Australia has put religion on notice. Religious affiliation is falling along with church attendance. Old allegiances have faltered, with 2.85 million Australians rejecting religious belief between 1996 and 2001. In 1971, 7 per cent […]
Redeemer Baptist Church
Unholy devotion March 20, 2005 Reporter : Daniel Street Producer : Kirstine Lumb The Redeemer Baptist story began in 1974, when around 30 families broke away from the Castle Hill Baptist Church in Sydney’s west, reaching out to local bikie groups, street kids, and others in need, offering live-in support and care. But the story […]
Lords Attack Government Plans To Introduce Religious Hate Laws
LORDS ATTACK GOVERNMENT PLANS TO INTRODUCE RELIGIOUS HATE LAWS Press Release – 17 March 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ———— Government plans to introduce laws banning Incitement to Religious Hatred were attacked by peers from all sides on Monday as the House of Lords debated the measures for the first time. Over 40 peers spoke in […]
Book Summary/ Review: In Search of the Good Life: the Ethics of Globalization
Book summary/ Review: In Search of the Good Life: the Ethics of Globalization, by Rebecca Todd Peters (NY: Continuum, 2004). This morning’s Melbourne Age has an article headed ‘Indonesia plans to sue US mining giant over pollution.’ ‘The world’s largest gold producer (Newmont) has been under investigation over charges that its Indonesian unit, Newmont Minhasa […]
Augustine and Creation
From Ken Smith: From Saint Augustine, “Confessions”, (Penguin Books, 1961) Book XI, chapter 12: My answer to those who ask `What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?’ is not `He was preparing Hell for people who pry into mysteries’. This frivolous retort has been made before now, so we are told, in […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [28]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 028, 11-17 March 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues The ANU’s Alison Booth looks at the factors contributing to the poor health of indigenous Australians. AFR 14 Mar 05 * Bioethics – […]
Soul-Speak in a Suicidal Culture
The Silence of Christmas and the Scream of the Tsunami: Soul-Speak in a Suicidal Culture Ravi Zacharias 2005 – Winter The very first Christmas card that I received this December was from a Sikh friend in Thailand. He and his family fondly wished my family and me a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year. […]
The Church and Women
From Mark: WOMEN ‘DEVIL’S GATEWAY’ The adherents of the new religion soon developed an obsessional horror of sex — a desperate fear that found much of its motivation in the belief that man had been created a pure being in the image of God and that he had been defiled by woman. And they turned […]
Industrial Relations
I have a dream about industrial relations. All those employees, managers, directors, … who get more than, say, three times the pay of the lowest paid full-time adult employee (either permanent or casual) are labelled XXX. Each year the company files with the Industrial Relations Commission the pay rises awarded to everyone in category XXX. […]
The End of Poverty
In a world of plenty, 1 billion people are so poor, their lives are in danger. How to change that for good It is still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a small village, Nthandire, about an hour outside of Lilongwe, the capital. We have come over dirt roads, passing women and children walking […]
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