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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Religion and Ethics Australia (2)

Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 002, 18-21 October 2004  ² compiled by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues Children as young as five in the Northern Territory are getting high on petrol sniffing. The permanent brain damage that results leaves a […]

Religion and Ethics Australia (1)

Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 001, 15-18 October 2004  ² compiled by Rod Benson News reports Agriculture A collection of feature articles on organic farming and marketing. SMH 18 Oct 04 Anglican Church Anglican Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen accused Archbishop […]

Elimination of Violence against Women

Some further information and web links: November 25th: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Women’s activists have marked November 25th as a day against violence since 1981. The date came from the brutal 1961 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic. They were a symbol of resistance […]

Religion and Ethics Australia (4)

Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 004, 26-28 October 2004  ² compiled by Rod Benson News reports Abuse – sexual Failures by the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, the agency that investigates allegations of sexual abuse against teachers and clergy, are putting […]

I Still Love Homosexuals

FIRST-PERSON: I still love homosexuals by Tim Wilkins November 2004 WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Unsure how I, a former homosexual, received an invitation to speak two consecutive weeks to a gay/lesbian organization at a major university, I readily accepted. I arrived well ahead of time to mingle with the students, shake hands and get to know […]

Sticker Of Doubt

Sydney Morning Herald November 9, 2004 A trial has opened over whether a warning sticker in school biology textbooks in Atlanta that says evolution is “a theory, not a fact” violates the separation of church and state by promoting religion. The case is one of several battles waged in recent years in more conservative states […]

Jesus the Socialist

From a friend (My response at the bottom) Which political party would most merit Jesus vote, either in Australia or America? Both Howard and Bush have now won – claiming a higher moral ground and a basis of faith than their opponents – and strong faith in the case of Bush. Who would win Jesus […]

Religion & Ethics Australia November 2004

Religion & Ethics Australia Daily A twice-weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 007, 5-8 November 2004  ² compiled by Rod Benson News reports Aboriginal issues A good education at boarding school can help indigenous Australians go a long way in life, Noel Pearson argues at length. Aust 5 […]

Christian American Quiz

Please answer the following Questions: 1) Which is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on over twenty different countries since 1945? 2) Which is the only country to have used nuclear weapons? 3) Which country was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a […]

Judges Aren’t Always Right!

At one time judges ruled that “a Black man has no rights that a White man need respect”. ***************************************************************************************** “segregation … is and always has been the unvarying law of the animal kingdom. The dove and the quail, the turkey and the turkey buzzard, the chicken and the guinea, it matters not where they are […]