Apologetics
Gallup, statistics and discipleship
This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 07/28/2004 George Gallup Jr. has been studying the numbers for a half century and nobody knows better than he does that they just don’t add up. Most of the familiar, comforting statistics that describe public religion remain remarkably stable from poll to poll. Somewhere around […]
Challenging Homophobia (Tasmanian Dept of Education, Aust.)
Human sexuality is an integral part of life. Everyone has the right to their own sexuality, provided they do not harm others or violate their rights. All people have the right to unbiased and up to date information about sexuality, and to an environment in which they can make informed choices about their sexuality and […]
Homophobia
“I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals…as an unbelievable injustice perpetrated by supposedly ‘moral’ people against innocent groups, just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. Both the Church and the Nazis believed they were acting in good faith.” N. McLean, Burlington, ON. Letter […]
Homosexual Relationships – a liberal view
One netfriend wrote: No one is suggesting that we ostracised homosexuals or treat them as outcasts. Nathan: I wish that were true, but unfortunately the situation in our churches is a lot messier than that. 34% of the churches who made submissions to the Baptist Union of Victoria’s 1997 Taskforce on Homosexuality and Ordination, said […]
Same-sex marriage (more)
August 05, 2004 11:44 AM One netfriend wrote: Although impressed by Nathan’s articulate advocacy for his position on same-sex marriage, I remain thoroughly unconvinced, and firmly of the opposite view. Nathan responded: “Thoroughly” and “firmly”? So, given that I know [him] well enough to know that he is a thoughtful, compassionate and prayerful person and […]
To Urgh Is Human
Disgust is an adaptation for survival but what is the point of it now, asks Paul Bloom Thursday July 22, 2004 The Guardian What, precisely, is so bad about sex between adult siblings, bestiality, and the eating of corpses? Most people insist such acts are morally wrong, but when psychologists ask why, the answers make […]
Australian Prime Minister on Marriage
Speeches 04 August 2004 TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER THE HON JOHN HOWARD MP ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE FORUM, GREAT HALL, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA Thank you very much. Thank you Senator Barnett for your kind words of introduction, Jim Wallace and the other organisers of this very impressive gathering, a very large crowd filling […]
Same Sex Marriage in Australia – a conservative view
FROM BRIG. JIM WALLACE Mate, We really have a fight on for Marriage and preserving it as between a man and a woman. Could you get information on this Marriage Forum to be held in Canberra on 4th August around your, network. This is the time to draw a line in the sand, but we […]
Frederick Buechner on Homosexuality
To say that morally, spiritually, humanly, homosexuality is always bad seems as absurd as to say that in the same terms heterosexality is always good, or the other way around. It is not the object of our sexuality that determines its value but the inner nature of our sexuality. If (a) it is as raw […]
Tony Campolo – Why many people in the world hate America
Why many people in the world hate America Tony Campolo is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, and is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters. His latest book, Speaking My Mind, is now available in the US and UK. Tony preached at a special service in Church […]
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