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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.

7 Questions For Weighing War

THE MACDONALD FILES By Gordon MacDonald, Leadership editor-at-large From my journal: There are some questions I’d like to hear more Evangelical Christians discussing (and using as a recipe for prayer?): 1. Do we spend enough time pondering the unintended consequences of war: the lingering hate that lasts for generations, the tyrants and tyrannical systems that […]

Embryo Research / Cloning Bills

DO NO HARM Next week, as Queensland becomes the first of our State Parliaments to debate cloning and experimentation on human embryos, opinion will be polarised, as it was in the Federal arena, between those who think the embryonic human matters, and those who think it does not. This polarisation was evident in an exchange […]

Tony Campolo Calls Evangelicals To ‘ Face Facts ‘ About Middle East

Right now, we have to face the facts that the Christian church, in its proper zeal to support the state of Israel, has forgotten that there’s a group of people called the Palestinians. And unless we stand up and speak for justice on behalf of the Palestinians, we are going to lose the missionary struggle […]

Scientific Evidence Points To A Creator

Scientific Evidence Points to a Creator European Scientists Reject Notion of Evolution Brunswick, August 29 (idea)  ­ More and more scientific evidence points to the fact that the world was created by God and did not develop by a process of evolution. Such findings were presented by 150 geologists, information scientists and biologists at the […]

Religious Freedom In Our Brave New World

FESTIVAL OF LIGHT AUSTRALIA A Christian ministry to the nation promoting true family values 4th Floor, 68 Grenfell Street, Adelaide SA 5000 phone 8223 6383 fax 8223 5850 email MEDIA RELEASE SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2003 Religious freedom in our Brave New World Bishop Paul Barnett of Sydney, keynote speaker at the Festival of Light Annual […]

Christians And War

From a netfriend: There has been a suggestion that it would be better to change the agenda of the Walk Against the War to one where we say we would support the war if it were UN backed. The suggestion that peace marchers are part of the problem is absurd. It was the USA and […]

Creation And The Flood

Are you makin’ a monkey out of me? (is this what the creationist said to the evolutionist?) No need. Creationists make monkeys out of themselves, thereby proving the evolutionists point. ~~~ Ah, my friend, evolution is still just a theory. We still do not have conclusive proof that man descended from monkeys. True, the circumstantial […]

Baby Milk Company Fined For Advertising Direct To Consumers (More)

From a UCA friend: see our website for extensive resources and history of the church’s involvement in this issue http://nat.uca.org.au/unitingjustice/issues/peg/corporate/infantformula.html

Alcohol Advertising

Message MEDIA RELEASEFriday, 29 August 2003 Alcohol Advertising – Nile’s successful Motion at Alcohol Summit The Rev Fred Nile MLC has successfully moved the only Motion that was adopted by the Alcohol Summit that dealt directly with the controversial issues of the regulation of alcohol advertising. “I was very pleased that the Alcohol Summit adopted […]

No War, No Peace

By Andrew Bolt NINE years ago, I drove into Rwanda just after Hutu gangs, armed by the Government, slashed and shot dead 800,000 Tutsis. I saw a church, in which a hundred Tutsi Catholics had been machinegunned and blown up with grenades. The dried blood was centimetres thick around the altar. I found among the […]