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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.

Keith Ward – On Belief In God

Transcript from ABC 774 John Faine ‘Conversation Hour’ Friday 7.3.03 John Faine and Terry Lane (co-host) had this 15 minute conversation with Keith Ward on general questions about ‘God’. Both John and Terry are ‘sceptics’ but Keith was both relaxed and forthright in the way he responded to their questions and challenges. This is a […]

War And Dissent

Dissent During War If people are opposed to the war with Iraq, shouldn’t they protest? But at what point does the dissent become a morale problem for the armed forces? And how does it impact the families of servicemen and women? Lucky Severson explores the ethical issues raised by anti-war protests. University of Virginia professor […]

Integrity In Public Life Statement

Feb. 5, 2003 NSW Ecumenical Council has released the following “Integrity in Public Life” statement motivated by deep disquiet about the nature of the national election in 2001. Preamble: While in democratic, multicultural and multi-faith societies, the social order is not determined by Christian values, Christians have a right and a duty to contribute to […]

Evolution Of Civilization

A netfriend wrote I doubt that what will ultimately be the church will have much of a resemblence to that which we have now. The God we are talking about is far greater and more expansive than anything that is contained by church doctrines or creeds. Just as our consciousness of the cosmos has expanded […]

Jews And Palestinians

An American student emailed two questions. Here are my responses: Hi.. I am a student at Burleson high school and i am researching for a debate! I see you know your stuff when it comes to Jews and Plaestinians… so if you could i would appriciate it so much if you could answer a couple […]

Bush And Iraq

From the New York Times – a bit of sense The Wimps of War By PAUL KRUGMAN eorge W. Bush’s admirers often describe his stand against Saddam Hussein as “Churchillian.” Yet his speeches about Iraq – and for that matter about everything else – have been notably lacking in promises of blood, toil, tears and […]

Iraq Websites

From a netfriend: I have some suggested links and thought other people on the Insights list might be interested in them. Pastoral letters from President of United Methodist Church to George Bush (who is a member of UMC) http://www.umc.org/headlines/iraq/letter_to_president.htm. (February 03) and http://www.umc.org/headlines/iraq/Christopher/newsflash/ (October 02) There is also other interesting material on this site. National […]

Letter From Baghdad

Tuesday, February 4 Dear Friends, Greetings from Baghdad! It is very late here and I am sleepy. The hotel will not stop playing the theme from “The Last of the Mohicans” over and over again and we have had an exhausting day. Once again I will try to give you some idea of what it […]

Australian Liberals And Iraq

Old Liberal hearts in dismay at lackey John By Alan Ramsey February 5 2003 John Howard spoke for 53 minutes yesterday delivering 6000 weasel words as George Bush’s Australian surrogate. Howard was still addressing Parliament when Bob Solomon’s letter arrived. A week earlier it was John Valder who wrote. Valder, a Sydney businessman, was the […]

War And Iraq

A guy asks an American, “What proof do you have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?” and the American replies, “We kept the receipts”.