Apologetics
Exponential Decay and Creation
Ken: I’m not sure that I understand just what ____ is getting at, but I’ll have a go at introducing her to exponential decay. She writes: You said (above) that the decay rate has not changed in billions of years. How do you know that? Have you done experiments to prove it? If you have, […]
Beyond belief: a human strategy for survival
Note from Rowland: this article from a ‘secular’ psychiatrist will make you think (and that’s not necessarily bad!). ~~~ (The Age January 4, 2005) Disasters help us to learn more about ourselves, and our responses, writes Paul Valent. Where was God during the tsunami? Where is God in Darfur? Where was God in Rwanda? Cambodia? […]
True Justice: Halting the Push for Gay Marriage
By Andrew Comiskey, M.Div. Executive Director Desert Stream Ministries As I read of the 2600 same-sex couples wed in San Francisco last weekend, I studied a telling photograph that accompanied the article. In it, two small children looked on in confusion at the gay unions being formalized in front of them; they covered their eyes […]
Freedom From Homosexuality
The Testimony of Ron Brookman delivered at the National Forum on Marriage Parliament House Canberra, Wednesday, 4th August, 2004 I was a homosexual for 30 years. Every fibre of my being was homosexually driven. Over the last 13 years I have reclaimed heterosexuality. I am now happily married to Ruth, and am the father of […]
Christian Artists and the Church
One poster wrote: i read a piece somewhere that suggested there should be just a few ministry focused artists Mark responded: What is ministry? To whom is it directed? How many nonChristians listen to Christian bands that “minister”? Why do nonChristians listen to artists like U2 and Bob Dylan etc? Answer these questions are you’ve […]
Building Global Justice
Building Global Justice: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For Stanford Baccalaureate Address June 12, 2004 By Jim Wallis Good Morning. I am grateful to the graduates for the opportunity to address you today on this great occasion. My title is “Building Global Justice” OR “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting […]
Nationalism
If a national group makes the life and growth of the nation its ultimate concern, it demands that all other concerns, economic well-being, health and life, family, aesthetic and cognitive truth, justice and humanity, be sacrificed. The extreme nationalisms of our century are laboratories for the study of what ultimate concern means in all aspects […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [21]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 021, 21-27 January 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Abuse – sexual Former federal Labor minister Bob Collins has been charged with 21 child sex offences dating back to the 1970s. Aust 25 Jan […]
Creationism
It’s not a matter of underestimating what God could do (create everything in 6 days), as of what he actually did do. It’s perfectly possible that God created the whole universe in six days, and did it so carefully that he concealed all the evidence, and littered his creation with vast numbers of clues indicating […]
Left-of-centre politics
Note: the first half of this article suggests an important trend for left-of-centre parties in all the Western democracies. Rowland. Labor’s MPs are out of tune with voters By Gregory Hywood January 27, 2005 Kim Beazley’s task is to make his party relevant. The Howard Government’s political ascendancy and Labor’s torpor can be measured by […]
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