Apologetics
Hijacking Christmas
From a netfriend: Christmas, we want it back A letter-writer (Nov 29, 2004) suggests that the mid-winter celebration of the Northern hemisphere has been ‘hijacked’ by the Christian church. How about a deal? We’ll take back Christmas (with Christ and all that God-stuff) and you can have New Year. Feel free to fill up the […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Daily [15]
Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 015, 3-6 December 2004 ² edited by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues Australia’s two most influential Aboriginal leaders, Patrick Dodson and Noel Pearson, have come together to make a joint appeal for a new dialogue […]
Christmas: A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal JOHN BOYKIN: Every year, I boycott the local store that trots out its Christmas doodads first. It starts earlier every year. This year it was October 4th. As a Christian, I believe Jesus was God’s way of walking the Earth. If that’s anywhere close to true, then he’s really the wrong person […]
Ex-Gay Issues
Overview of Ex-Gay Issues Ex-gay ministries and therapists have been active for about 30 years and say that thousands of folks have changed because of them. Their views, based in conservative religious faith, dominated the mental health fields in the early 20th century. However, when researcher Dr. Robert Spitzer went looking for well-established ex-gays to […]
A moderate voice on the Israeli/Palestinian issue
A new chance has arisen to end the obscene and futile violence between Israelis and Palestinians, writes Robert Manne. On occasion I am asked by people who read my column why I never write about the problem of Israel and the Palestinians. Sometimes the question is raised simply out of curiosity. Sometimes it has an […]
The Disney Gospel
“The Disney Gospel” by John H. Armstrong Mark Pinsky, author of the book The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004), suggests there really is a gospel according to Disney. He calls the faith of Disney “secular ‘toonism,” a calculated play on the oft-used term “secular humanism.” What […]
History: Looking Back In Anger
Don’t look back in anger: historian By Deborah Snow December 4, 2004 Controversial historian Keith Windschuttle has opened a new front in Australia’s history wars by challenging the view that the White Australia Policy, which severely restricted non-European migration to Australia for more than half a century, was a deep stain on the country’s conscience. […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Daily [14]
Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 014, 30 Nov-2 Dec 2004 ² compiled by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues Referring to the practice of dispensing tribal justice to Aboriginal people Janet Albrechtsen sharply criticises the “moral relativism condoned by champions of […]
Voluntary Organisations (Rowan Williams)
The Nicholas Hinton Lecture, given at the AGM of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations 17th November 2004 The outcome of the US election has caused some heart-searching amongst the Left in Britain. Last week, William Davies of the Institute for Public Policy Research asked, in the New Statesman, whether the result suggested that the […]
Christmas Resistance Movement
You know holiday shopping is offensive and wasteful. You know Christmas “wish lists” and “gift exchanges” degrade the concept of giving. You know Christmas marketing is a scam, benefiting manufacturers, stores, and huge corporations, while driving individuals into debt. You know this annual consumer frenzy wreaks havoc on the environment, filling landfills with useless packaging […]
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