Apologetics
Muslims And Democracy
Muslims in Britain July 2003 British Muslims do not have a problem with democracy. Some of them do have a problem with multiculturalism Bhikhu Parekh Does Islam pose a challenge to British democracy? Recent events-from Muslim opposition to the disputed war in Iraq to the revelation about two British Muslim suicide bombers in Israel-have wrongly […]
Religion In (Australian) Schools
Why parents prize education’s fourth R – religion June 23 2003 Religious schools are soaking up students – and funding – as parents push for values-added private education. Linda Doherty, Kelly Burke and Linda Morris report on the new education landscape. A new religious school opens somewhere in NSW every six weeks. This phenomenon, however, […]
Why Gods Should Matter In Social Science
By RODNEY STARK If it is hard to believe that conceptions of the Gods are ignored in most recently written histories, it is harder yet to understand why Gods were long ago banished from the social-scientific study of religion. But that is precisely why I have devoted two volumes to demonstrating the crucial role of […]
Pentecostal Experience
A netfriend wrote: I wonder if anyone has done any research on what happens to the people when this perversion of Christianity collapses as they have in the past and this one invariably will. Me thinks that most of that 14,000 (in Australia’s largest Pentecostal church) will be lost to Christianity permanently and there will […]
What Would Jesus Do On Death Row?
By Sean Gonzalez, AlterNet June 16, 2003 Last week Dennis Halstead, John Kogut and John Restivo were released from prison after having spent 18 years in the big house for the 1985 rape and murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco. The prosecution’s case relied heavily on a videotaped confession by Kogut. Kogut later recanted his confession, […]
Jubilee’s Debt Campaign
This is a talk given last week by Ann Pettifor, probably the best-known leader of Jubilee’s debt campaign since its inception in the UK. She tells how the issue of developing country debt evolved from one which was a little-understood non-issue to one where many, from comedians to ordinary people were able to make a […]
Dodson Calls For ‘Extreme’ Action To Stop Brutality
A respected Aboriginal leader has called for extreme action to stop what he calls the increasing brutality against Aboriginal women and children. Professor Mick Dodson is the head of the Australian National University’s Institute for Indigenous Australia and says violence in Aboriginal communities is getting worse. Professor Dodson says there would be community outrage if […]
A Mission In Iraq Built On A Lie
June 16 2003 When Bush wondered what to do about September 11 an ultra-right lobby group was there to tell him, writes Robert Manne. It is gradually becoming transparent that the endlessly repeated claim used to justify the invasion of Iraq – that Saddam Hussein possessed a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction – […]
International Ethics
National Catholic Reporter FROM WHERE I STAND 27 May 2003 Is there anything left that matters? By Joan Chittister, OSB This is what I don’t understand: All of a sudden nothing seems to matter. First, they said they wanted Bin Laden “dead or alive.” But they didn’t get him. So now they tell us that […]
Gay Bishop
Hampshire ACNS 3462 | USA | 7 JUNE 2003 Canon Gene Robinson elected Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire [ACNS source: Diocese of New Hampshire] The Revd Canon Gene V Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire today on the 2nd ballot. Canon Robinson is the first openly gay man in […]
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