Apologetics
Religion & Ethics issues in the U.S. and elsewhere for 2004
Religion and Ethics Newsletter Following is a brief outline of the stories Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will be covering this week. Every Friday evening, new stories are uploaded to the Web site at http://www.pbs.org/religion. ————————————————– Perspectives: A Look Ahead to 2004 What major religion and ethics news stories are expected to make headlines in 2004? […]
America – ‘one nation under God’?
From a netfriend: There are a fairly sizable portion of people born in the USA who might ask, exactly when was it that the USA was “one nation under God”, when was the USA ever a Christian nation?” An honestlook at the USA ‘s history should make anyone familar with the New Testament and the […]
We’re all Boat People: A Biblical View of Refugees
Dr Gordon Preece ‘Imagine you are 29 years old, born and grew up in Kuwait. Your parents are immigrant workers there. You have few rights and no citizenship. Next you are in a detention camp in far flung Australia for 3 years being told when to eat, sleep, come to the office etc.You go to […]
Gays and Marriage: A Middle Way by Jim Wallis – a response
From a thoughtful netfriend: I read the article Gays and Marriage: A Middle Way by Jim Wallis on http://www.pastornet.net today as a way of assessing where your ministry stands on key theological issues of today. Quite frankly I am disappointed that you allowed such an article to be included in your inventory. Mr. Wallis stated […]
Blasphemy – and an incident at Handel’s Messiah/Rowland Croucher
As a spin-off from this other conversation about the theological critique of George W Bush’s religious language, I’d be interested in hearing from others about your views and your teaching on the subject of blasphemy. What do you teach those who are new to the faith about the meaning of the second commandment: “You shall […]
Patriotism (still more)
December 14 2003 David wrote: Let’s push beyond my earlier definition of Patriotism in terms of vigorous support and suppose that it even means loving one’s country. Well, surely it is possible to love someone or something other than God without that necessarily taking the place of God. For example, I can be a Christian […]
Patriotism (more)
David wrote: In replying to my responses to the Stam article, you make a couple of assumptions and then proceed to build an argument. The first assumption is that I use the term “Patriotism” to mean “an all-encompassing binding allegiance to something other than God.” If that was what I meant by “Patriotism”, I would […]
Patriotism
David wrote: My responses to this article were: 1. Bush stands accused of being a patriot. What national leader isn’t? 2. His patriotism blinds him to some of his nation’s faults. Yes…so? Many nationalities have jingoistic pride. Nathan responded: I can’t see how you can just say “So?” to these issues. Surely the issue here […]
THE RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE OF GEORGE W. BUSH
A Theological and Political Analysis by Juan Stam George W. Bush began to take part in a Bible study group in 1984, after two decades of suffering severe alcoholism. He attended at the invitation of his friend Don Evans, today his Secretary of Commerce. For two years Bush and Evans studied the Scriptures, and Bush […]
Church attendance figures
ACNS 3701 | ENGLAND | 9 DECEMBER 2003 Latest figures show churches alive in the community [ACNS source: Church of England] Four people out of every 10 (more than 39%) are likely to attend a church this Christmas with more than 2.6 million attending Church of England churches and cathedrals on Christmas Eve and Christmas […]
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