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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.

Hypnotism

An informed netfriend wrote (about hypnotism) I recommend the hypnotist Nekole Belshe (Nevermore) who has some very good information on this subject and worked on the Robert Kennedy assassination inquiry. He did a demonstration where he hypnotised people to speak in tongues in the name of Snoopy. [Email him at http://members.tripod.com/~alex_kruk/HONESTY.html] I also recommend the […]

When The World Turns Upside Down

We know the world has changed when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is lecturing the US on arrogance and Germany doesn’t want to have a war. John Little, Cronulla, March 21 (SMH)

U K And The Arms Race

“From the day it took office, veiled by Cook’s “ethical” nonsense, New Labour embraced the arms business. In his first few months as Prime Minister, Blair approved 11 arms deals with General Suharto’s genocidal regime in Indonesia under cover of the Official Secrets Act.” http://www.angloarabia.com/bombs/

Rationales For War

From a netfriend: Earlier this week, we did a study on War and the Bible here on campus and one of the people who attended is a student who belongs to the Bruderhof Community, one of the US Peace Churches. She spoke about her difficulties when studying history at school in the US. She had […]

How To Protest More Effectively

It’s time to turn off, tune out and drop President Bush a message March 21 2003 Boycotting the US showbiz behemoth is the most powerful anti-war gesture you could make, writes Gerald Stone. Street marches against the US-led attack on Iraq cannot be compared to the mass demonstrations which helped to end the war in […]

Kofi Annan On Iraq

From a netfriend: UN News Centre http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp Also Below is Kofi Annan’s most recent speech re. Iraq. ———————— Annan pledges UN help and support to Iraqi people Secretary-General Kofi Annan 20 March – Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the United Nations will do whatever it can to bring assistance and support to the Iraqi people […]

Changing Your Mind

Dr Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are […]

Alternatives To War

From a netfriend: This may sound a bit direct so I hope you take it just as dialogue: I think you might have been sucked into the rhetoric of this as an “inevitable war”! The truth is there is nothing inevitable about it at all. The only thing inevitable was Bush’s determination to go to […]

Tony Blair’s Speech On Iraq

From a netfriend: Below is the text of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s latest speech re. the War in Iraq and the Middle East Crisis, which was televised here in Australia. I’ve tended to follow Tony Blair’s speeches very closely. Why? (1) He is a Labour Prime Minister (not Conservative), so his political views will […]

Three Questions About War With Iraq (Leighton Ford)

A LETTER FROM LEIGHTON FORD TO YOUNG CHRISTIAN LEADERS Shortly before Christmas I was invited with a few other religious leaders to meet with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other officials to discuss terrorism and Iraq. One official explained “If we are going into conflict with Iraq we need the moral support of the […]