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Apologetics

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Creation Science

Ken Smith: I’ve dug a bit more history out of my archives. These were obtained from the annual reports filed with the Queensland Department of Consumer Affairs (or wahtever the name of the Department was 20 years ago) to which all registered companies in Queensland have to submit their annual reports and financial statements. Other […]

An open letter to Chuck Colson (Jim Wallis)

An open letter to Chuck Colson by Jim Wallis http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=050224#3, found on 1 March 2005 On Monday, Feb. 21, Charles Colson, in his daily radio commentary, criticized what he perceived as my message. I’m sending my response in this “open letter.” Dear Chuck, In your commentary, “Moral Equivalency: The Religious Left Gets It Wrong,” you […]

Moral Equivalency: The Religious Left Gets It Wrong

Moral Equivalency The Religious Left Gets It Wrong BreakPoint with Charles Colson February 21, 2005 “Failure makes you reassess.” So says Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners magazine, and he ought to know. A number of Democratic Party members are looking to Wallis right now to help with their own political reassessment. Wallis is […]

Creation: Answers in Genesis?

February 2005 A number of people in Australia have become so concerned about the errors being propagated by Answers in Genesis that John Stear set up a site http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/default.htm with the title “No Answers in Genesis”. Many people, particularly Australians, have contributed to this site. But if people really want to get a religious response […]

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

A Game As Old As Empire By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted February 16, 2005. The author of the gripping new book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, reveals how the U.S. became the world’s largest superpower: by forcing developing countries into debt. John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, worked for […]

Social justice and the gospels go hand-in-hand

Bolivian combines faith with fight for rights of household workers Feb. 25, 2005 By Linda Bloom* NEW YORK (UMNS) – In her long fight for the legal rights of household workers in Bolivia, Casimira Rodriguez Romero has never separated her faith from her work. The 38-year-old activist calls her word-of-mouth campaign to educate domestic workers […]

Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [25]

Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 025, 18-24 February 2005  ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues Land rights should apply to individuals. Aust 19-20 Feb 05 The Howard Government will today unveil a dramatic shake-up of the Aboriginal work-for-the-dole […]

Privacy concerns

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Nationalism

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell. -Mencken

The Real Exorcists

The Real Exorcists Channel 4’s The Real Exorcists investigates the true story that inspired William Peter Blatty’s best-selling book, The Exorcist, which, in 1973, was made into a film of the same name. The film caused a sensation: people queued round the block to buy tickets, only to vomit or faint once they were in […]