Apologetics
Creationism and Radioactive dating
Over the weekend while doing a bit of tidying up I came across s copy I made of a scientific paper when I was arguing with a creationist about the validity of radioactive dating methods. It is from 1988, and is relevant to the ongoing discussion we have been having recently. One recent post mentioned […]
New Era in Israel/Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinians and Israel are embarking on a “new era” after more than four years of violence, according to a New York Times interview published on Monday. Abbas told the newspaper, in comments that appeared on its Web site, that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who reached a cease-fire deal […]
Torture, American Style
February 11, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST By BOB HERBERT aher Arar is a 34-year-old native of Syria who emigrated to Canada as a teenager. On Sept. 26, 2002, as he was returning from a family vacation in Tunisia, he was seized by American authorities at Kennedy Airport in New York, where he was in the process […]
Evangelicals in Crisis
To say there is a crisis of disobedience in the evangelical world today is to dangerously understate the problem. Born-again Christians divorce at about the same rate as everyone else. Self-centered materialism is seducing evangelicals and rapidly destroying our earlier, slightly more generous giving. Only 6 percent of born-again Christians tithe. Born-again Christians justify and […]
U N’s eight Millennium Development Goals
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling 3. Promote gender equality and […]
Abortion (Uniting Church position)
The President of the Uniting Church Assembly has today released a press statement that presents the Uniting Church position. The statement draws heavily on decisions taken previously by the Synods of NSW, Queensland, (as it then was) Victoria and Western Australia. 3 February 2005 UNITING CHURCH CALLS FOR COMPASSION AND BALANCE IN ABORTION DEBATE The […]
Abortion (Spong)
A reader, writes: “I was raised a Catholic and am still a disgruntled participant in the Church. I am a big fan of yours. “A New Christianity for a New World” finally articulated most of the views I have been coming to over the last few years. My only problem is your view on abortion. […]
Shame in the name of security
[From The New Zealand Herald] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10010748 12-Feb-2005 by Greg Ansley Baxter Immigration Detention Centre sits on a narrow strip of road that intersects the highway looping around the top of the Spencer Gulf from Port Augusta to the Eyre Peninsula. It is enclosed by electrified fences and razor wire and isolated from the raw beauty […]
A Comparative Religions Parable
Once upon a time, a man fell into a ditch. He could not get out no matter how high he jumped, or how hard he tried to climb. He knew he would certainly die if left there. Eventually, a Hindu wise man passed by and heard the man’s cries. “Clearly, you are there because of […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [23]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 023, 4-10 February 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Abortion “Abortion is an unresolved issue that has to be debated, but it should be much broader,” Anglican Primate Peter Carnley said. “We shouldn’t focus […]
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