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Brilliant Research And Twisted Logic (D N A )

By and others ⋅ May 12, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-092 (Apologetics and Social Issues) BRILLIANT RESEARCH AND TWISTED LOGIC – DNA Turns Fifty BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030505 Fifty years ago the scientific journal Nature announced the discovery of DNA-deoxyribonucleic acid. It opened the door to gene therapy, stem cell research, major medical advances, and new horizons in police work. […]

Truth, Lies And Freedom

By and others ⋅ May 12, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

by Mike Lowe As a youngster I was greatly impressed by an uncle who told me that, although he was a conservative, he read a socialist newspaper. He wanted to be presented with viewpoints and arguments different from his own so that his mind would remain challenged and alert. I recalled this when reviewing media […]

The Sex In Australia Study

By and others ⋅ May 12, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear Friends, I do apologise for once more bringing bad news to your attention. I’m sure that you must think that I am only interested in “doom and gloom”. But that wouldn’t be true, as those of you who know me better realise. The reason I write again in negative words is that there are […]

Sociologist Looks At Exorcism

By and others ⋅ May 8, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

For skeptics and most other people, the word exorcism immediately evokes images of Catholic priests, holy water, and bizarre, other-worldly behavior. Most of the popular literature and media coverage focus exclusively on this Hollywood version of modern exorcism, a vicarious adventure into the dangerous side of religious experience. American Exorcism takes us beyond such clich © […]

Homosexuals Advertising On Tv

By and others ⋅ May 8, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Those who visit this website have various points of view on this one. I’m passing this on for your information. From Bill Muehlenberg Bill has a role in the Australian Family Association which, as the name suggests, fights for family life. Bill gets many letters published in the newspapers. Note: the following are Bill’s words, […]

Age Of Consent Legislation Is Dangerous For Children

By and others ⋅ May 8, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

ANGLICAN MEDIA SYDNEY MEDIA RELEASE Age of consent legislation is dangerous for children May 8, 2003 Leaders in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney are speaking out against legislation introduced by Attorney General, Bob Debus, into the Lower House of State Parliament yesterday. The Diocese rejects proposals to lower the age of consent for homosexual activity […]

Only In America

By and others ⋅ May 6, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Norman Mailer This article is based on Norman Mailer’s Commonwealth Club speech in San Francisco on February 20, 2003. Mr. Mailer received the Club’s Centennial Medallion, in honor of the organization’s hundredth anniversary. An audio stream of the speech can be heard on commonwealthclub.org. 1. It is probably true that at the beginning of […]

Anti-Liberation Theology

By and others ⋅ May 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed042903.cfm April 29, 2003 Religious figures who opposed the liberation of Iraq have a lot of explaining to do. Fashioning themselves prophets of peace, they caustically denounced the “rush to war.” Having granted the United Nations an almost transcendent moral authority, they declared Operation Iraqi Freedom an “immoral” act of aggression. In the months leading […]

Towards A Church Of All Peoples

By and others ⋅ May 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-084 (Leadership Issues) TOWARDS A CHURCH OF ALL PEOPLES by Paul Grant How can we grow churches that more properly reflect the range and composition of a pluralist society? Why should we ask this question? Simply because the Eph.2:1-10 passage challenges us to do so. This multi-peopled family idea is in God’s […]

Post-War Iraq

By and others ⋅ May 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Religion and Ethics Newsletter Following is a brief outline of the stories Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will be covering this week. Every Friday evening, new stories are uploaded to the Web site at http://www.pbs.org/religion. ————————————————– Cover Story: Humanitarian Aid Update Now that the war with Iraq is over, the U.S. focus is shifting to reconstruction […]

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