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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.

Creationism/Evolution And This Website

Hi there, I was reading through some of the articles on the John Mark Ministries site and realised that Creationism is heavily opposed under the Apologetics and Social Issues section. I am just writing to ask why. Surely, Scripture has made it very clear of how God created the Universe, and Scripture would only make […]

Raising Taxes

A Breath of Fresh Air from Alabama by Jim Wallis While the White House and many congressional Republicans seem to believe that the solution to every problem is to cut taxes, there’s a breath of fresh air coming from Alabama. Gov. Bob Riley – a longtime conservative Republican – is proposing to raise taxes. Alabama […]

Baptists And Cooperation

July 11, 2003 BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE Baptist World Alliance Accepts Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (by Wendy Ryan) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BWA) — The General Council, the governing body of the Baptist World Alliance voted today Friday, July 11, 2003, to accept five new member bodies into its global fellowship, one of which is the Cooperative […]

The Return Of The Pig (Chauvinism And Sexism)

The revival of blatant sexism in American culture has many progressive thinkers flummoxed by David Brooks ….. ave you noticed that male chauvinism is making a comeback? Thirty years after the feminist revolution, if you look at the rap videos on MTV or BET, you’ll find that “ho” and “bitch” are just about the nicest […]

International Ethics

Rules for the World Stage By Martha Nussbaum Newsday (New York) April 20, 2003 There once was a noble vision of what the world of international relations can be. In recent weeks this vision, once nearly realized, has receded from view, so much so that we might forget that human beings ever had such a […]

Canon Jeffrey John – A Statement From The Ea

EA EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE United Kingdom PRESS STATEMENT 7 July 2003 CANON JEFFREY JOHN A STATEMENT FROM THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE The decision by Canon Jeffrey John to withdraw from the post of Bishop of Reading has been welcomed by the Evangelical Alliance UK. Following the announcement yesterday (Sun July 6), the General Director of the Evangelical […]

Merciless Technology

From a netfriend: G’day All The front page of this mornings SMH has an article describing new technology which can detect Down Syndrome at 8 to 12 weeks with no danger to mother or child. Perhaps I should restate that. There are enormous dangers. For once I think the SMH has it right to put […]

Merciless Technology

From a netfriend: A couple of years ago I attended a conference on the Human Genome project. The conference was organised by Sydney University’s Institute for Development Disabilities. A number of people who have children with inheritable development disabilities told stories of how they were pressured to have abortions and are still made to feel […]

Evolution Five Big Questions

New Scientist vol 178 issue 2399 – 14 June 2003, page 32 In the 144 years since On the Origin of Species, evolutionary theory has come a long way. Modern biology consistently confirms Darwin’s amazing ideas, even though the great man knew nothing of genetics or molecular biology. Yet there are still nagging questions that […]

Homosexual Bishop

Note: this article is reproduced here for reflection, not because I necessarily agree with it. Shalom! Rowland Croucher This is a Gospel issue By The Rt Rev Richard Harries When Philip Giddings, whom I much respect, spoke to the press after my meeting with some leading evangelical clergy in the diocese, he told them he […]