Apologetics
Natalism
The New Red-Diaper Babies By DAVID BROOKS Published: December 7, 2004 here is a little-known movement sweeping across the United States. The movement is “natalism.” All across the industrialized world, birthrates are falling – in Western Europe, in Canada and in many regions of the United States. People are marrying later and having fewer kids. […]
Christmas: A Modest Proposal (some responses)
Christmas: A Modest Proposal One netfriend wrote: Since Christians took over the pagan celebration that signified the returning of the sun or light to celebrate the coming of the light in Jesus, then we, in the Southern hemisphere should be celebrating xmas in late June after the winter Another responded: I think there is some […]
The Corporate psychopath exposed
By Simon Hooper for CNN Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Posted: 1107 GMT (1907 HKT) LONDON, England (CNN) — You can guess how Joel Bakan feels about modern companies from the title of his book: “The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power”. For Bakan, a Canadian law professor, his eponymous subject is a self-interested, […]
Religious Vilification in the U.K.
Media Release and Calling Notice CAMPAIGNERS MEET TO OPPOSE FLAWED INCITEMENT TO RELIGIOUS HATRED LAWS Campaigners from across the political and religious spectrum and from the worlds of entertainment, writing and journalism are meeting in the House of Commons tonight (Monday, December 6th 2004) to set out their opposition to the Government’s proposed news laws […]
Pornography profits
Optus’s dirty little secret revealed By Michael Sainsbury and Vanda Carson December 1, 2004 OPTUS’s dirty little secret – a highly lucrative business based on Internet phone pornography lines – has been exposed in a Supreme Court judgment against the country’s second-biggest telcos. Optus acted as the middleman in the trade of porn from Vanuatu […]
Religion’s eternal life
Secularisation happened because men and women of goodwill lost faith in the ability of religious believers to live peaceably with one another. Religion’s eternal life at core of world concerns By Jonathan Sacks LONDON – Religion persists at the center of world concerns. Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims battle in Iraq. Religious divisions fuel ethnic […]
Protestant unions gain momentum
Posted on Sat, Dec. 04, 2004 By Brian Murphy Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – With each signature on a parchment document, a group of Dutch clergymen watched their churches pass into history. What emerged – a new church combining three Protestant denominations – is now being watched from India to Indiana as the latest bid […]
Right to Life
From a netfriend: In the U.S. we are the =only= minority group that is not protected….. Break a bald eagle egg, or a sea turtle, and you get a $250,000 fine; an abortion you have to =pay= for….. “Oh beautiful, for spacious skies…..”
Christmas
A friend wrote: It always seems ironic to me that Christians make such a fuss about the secularisation of “their” festival, when it was a pagan celebration first! Yet blurring of festivals between cultures is and always has been a fact of intercultural interaction. The early Christians were absolute shockers for grabbing other festivals and […]
Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Christian Church
‘A Christian Apocalypse … ‘ Foreword Some ten years ago, the writer commenced work on a document which became the published work entitled, Religious Life without Integrity. It was not a conventional book. I used quotations culled from many sources — and arranged for dramatic effect — to explore various aspects of the sexual abuse […]
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