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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.

Creation and Evolution

By and others ⋅ July 20, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

May I suggest a site which could help Gladys, even though it could lead to a massive “information overload” ? If you want reliable technical information about all sorts of aspects of teh evolution vs creationism argument, try http://www.talkorigins.org You could start with the FAQs about religion and evolution and go on from there. It […]

Political Correctness and Sexist Language

By and others ⋅ July 20, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

I wrote: There’s one dimension of ‘political correctness’ with which I concur… Let’s not buy into patriarchial/sexist uses of language. If we mean ‘men and women’ (and not all biblical occurrences of the generic ‘men’ includes women, of course) let’s use inclusive language… Ken replied: Not all, but most of them do. In the NT […]

Recovering a Hijacked Faith (Jim Wallis)

By and others ⋅ July 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Recovering a Hijacked Faith Recovering a hijacked faith By Jim Wallis | July 13, 2004 MANY OF US feel that our faith has been stolen, and it’s time to take it back. A misrepresentation of Christianity has taken place. Many people around the world now think Christian faith stands for political commitments that are almost […]

Fighting Ageism

By and others ⋅ July 19, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

ABC Compass program – Fighting Ageism Sunday July 11 2004 Summary: Today’s discrimination & prejudice against older workers forces a re-assessment of life, work, and priorities. Story: Intro Hello I’m Geraldine Doogue welcome to Compass. Which tonight asks us to consider whether a new form of systematic discrimination is rearing its ugly head more and […]

Bono’s American Prayer

By and others ⋅ July 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

from http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/003/2.38.html Bono’s American Prayer The world’s biggest rock star tours the heartland, talking more openly about his faith as he recruits Christians in the fight against AIDS in Africa. by Cathleen Falsani | posted 02/21/2003 No poet-and Bono, the 42-year-old lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, considers himself a poet-enjoys having his […]

Wine and Spirits

By and others ⋅ July 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Did Jesus turn the water into red or white wine????? … I’m interested in finding out God’s preference and the Terew Kristyun wine I should be drinking. 😉 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WINE In ancient religions wine was often represented as the blood of the god(s). Wine drinking was originally a religious ritual. Wine is mentioned 521 times […]

Holidays In Hell and Christian kitsch

By and others ⋅ July 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Making fun of born-again christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.” -[P.J. O’Rourke] He is correct! Why? Read his “Holidays In Hell” (Morgan Entrekin; New York:1988) for a description of Jim and Tammy Bakker’s Heritage USA ! pp. 91 – 95 ####################################### …. Dorothy and I came to scoff […]

Should the law allow same-sex marriage?

By and others ⋅ July 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

8 July 2004 Dear Friends, The [Australian] Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee is conducting an inquiry into the Marriage Legislation Amendment Bill, which has been passed by the House of Representatives but blocked by the combined forces of Labor, Greens and Democrats in the Senate. The bill was introduced after several homosexual and lesbian couples […]

Same-sex marriage

By and others ⋅ July 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Note (again): the following is posted to encourage mature thinking, not necessarily because JMM/RCC agrees with it. Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ THE DESIRE TO LOVE AND THE REAL GOOD MARRIAGE It is helpful to remember that a number of courts sanctioning same-sex marriage (starting with the Ontario Court of Appeal) have adopted a natural law […]

Pharisees Ancient and Modern

By and others ⋅ June 29, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Being an itinerant (‘hit-run’) preacher has some advantages. I remember a Sunday evening service in a conservative church in rural Victoria, Australia. They had big black Bibles and severe expressions… And they knew their Bibles, and were proud of that. It was a smallish group, so I decided to engage them in dialogue: ‘Who knows […]

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