Apologetics
Answers in Genesis answers Ken Smith
One of the pastors at my church called me to express concern at recent material appearing on the John Mark Ministries website, stuff emanating from one Ken Smith (http://jmm.org.au/articles/14602.htm and http://jmm.org.au/articles/14614.htm ). My pastor asked me if I could respond in some way. Having checked the posting myself, I understand his alarm. We have no […]
Acupuncture – a Christian assessment
Andrew Fergusson is the General Secretary of Christian Medical Fellowship UK. (CMF). He has spoken, written and broadcasted extensively about alternative medicine throughout the 1990s. These views are his own. Most Nucleus readers will have come across acupuncture. Perhaps a consultant anaesthetist was using it occasionally in a pain clinic you sat in on, and there […]
Time
…As Augustine wrote in his “Confessions”, and elaborated on in “The City of God”, The world was created with time, not in time. Augustine didn’t have available all the mathematical apparatus we have today, so he couldn’t give a scientific explanation. All he could do was state that time came into being with the universe. […]
Chinese story of the Great Flood?
One poster wrote: A record of the Creation and Flood are also to be found preserved in the ancient chinese written language (Pictographs). For instance, the Chinese characters for `to Create’ consist of the characters for; `dust’, `mouth’ (=person), `movement of life’, and `able to walk’. The Chinese characters for `boat’ consist of the Chinese […]
We will only find security when justice is done
Our drive for security has resulted in violence and the building of barriers between people, writes Elenie Poulos. But the Uniting Church is working to overcome violence and to be faithful to the gospel call for justice for the marginalised and oppressed, and reconciliation and peace among all creation. Elenie Poulos takes the Australian seat […]
Creation Museum
Museum breathes life into creation fossil Any number of exhibits could astonish a visitor to the near-complete Creation Museum in Kentucky, US. Stroll through the planetarium that demonstrates how God made the earth in six days some 6,000 years ago. Get comfy inside the five-screen, special effects movie theatre to behold the science of biblical […]
Relativity and Time
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/time.html
Politics
These days, politics is about polling the electorate to find out what it believes and then saying that’s what you think too. It is not about passion, belief and a vision but minimising risk. Gregory Hywood
Flags in church?
Digger’s last wish honoured Anthony Dowsley 03mar05 A FITTING Digger’s tribute honoured the dying wishes of George “Dick” Vipond whose family were forced to move his funeral when a minister banned a service involving an Australian flag. About 300 mourners, including returned servicemen, packed St Thomas’s Anglican Church in Essendon to farewell the World War […]
Wallis, Colson Trade Barbs in Columns
Bob Allen 02-28-05 Jim Wallis gets it wrong, Prison Fellowship founder Charles Colson wrote in his Feb. 21 BreakPoint column. That prompted an open-letter response from the founder and editor of Sojourners and author of a new book, God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Colson, recently included […]
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