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Apologetics

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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

Chomsky

It seems to me that everyone in the West is either worried or apathetic about stopping global terrorism, whilst the majority are quite happy to support those, albeit passively, who perpetuate the greatest terrorist activities on the planet, i.e. the US and her ‘coalition of the willing’ led by multinational corporations. It’s more than ironic […]

Creation

A netfriend wrote: It is the actual beginning of the Universe and living organisms in it that is the crucial issue. Did it all begin by chance? Or was there a Supernatual Eternal Being Who set it all in motion? Chris responded: I think there are some other questions as well which are crucial for […]

Evolution – A Fact?

Netfriend wrote: I have admitted before that I do not have scientific qualifications. That does not mean that I should not try to think through these issues. Chris responded: The issue is not a lack of qualifications. It is a lack of knowledge. You make pronouncements about what you don’t know or understand. You claim […]

Australia: Changes To Tv Code

Urgent – please read Very few people in Australia are aware that dangerous changes are being proposed to the commercial television code. Time is running out, as the public are only invited to submit comments until Friday, 19th September, 2003. If we do not want to see PG rated films being aired at children’s peak […]

In Defence Of Freemasonry

Subject: freemasonry Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 17:48:59 +1000 From: Alan and Lyn Bromage <> To: Please feel free to add it to your site. Alan Forgive me for corresponding in this way but as a new netter I am unsure how to access newsgroups. I have just read one of your articles on freemasonry […]

Legal Age For Homosexuals

Subject: Re: Legal Age ffor Homosexuals Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:50:18 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Reply-To: Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,nz.soc.religion In <>, Rowland Croucher wrote: >LEGAL AGE FOR HOMOSEXUALS MUST NOT BE LOWERED TO 16 >The NSW Council of Churches has again come out in strong opposition >to renew proposals to lower the legal age […]

Is War Ever Justified?

"You have heard that it was said, `Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." … "You have heard that it was said, `Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I […]

Update From Baghdad

Shane’s journals are available on-line through http://www.thesimpleway.org/ An Update from Shane in Baghdad, Iraq Most of us here in Baghdad are spending our days visiting hospitals and bomb sites (homes and neighborhoods hit by missiles) , and trying to tell these stories to the press, to the Church, and to the world. Here are a […]

Science, Religion And Conflict

From a netfriend: Did you hear Ockham’s Razor [ABC Radio National] broadcast Sunday 30 March 2003 with Robyn Williams and repeated Monday 31st March? Read it: (transcript) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s816425.htm (or below) Hear it: (15 minutes of .RAM [Real Audio] format audio) http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/audio/ockham_30032003_2856.ram Science, Religion and Conflict Summary: Science exists because we are confronted by mystery, but […]

A Christian Iraqi View Of The War

> Can’t see this US v Iraq as a ‘just war’ myself, but must respect this > Christian Iraqi brother of ours for taking such a brave and merciful > view… > I hope his expectations of USA are not dashed. ~~~ > | > | > IN ANOTHER VIEW from the front lines of […]