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Jews And Muslims

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear Pastor Croucher: Thank you so much for your good work on behalf of my people. Believe me, I tell every Jew who will listen that the only friends we have are God-fearing Christians. Other “allies” of ours are so only for political expediency, the good Christians do so out of principle and faith in […]

Retired Cricketers And Suicide

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

NOTICE – Tuesday 17 December 2002 Well-Being Australia The Australian newspaper ran a feature article yesterday (16.12.02) in the sports pages by Mike Coward the cricketing columnist, on the Retired Australian Cricketers Bi-Annual Newsletter which Well-Being Australia’s Dr Mark Tronson co-ordinates (17 years ACB Chaplain, ret.) and it’s article by former Victorian Cricket Team Chaplain […]

Don’t Set The People Free

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

14th December 2002 Theodore Dalrymple says that many poor souls need institutions, but the ideologues and cost-cutters insist on giving them autonomy. If freedom entails responsibility, a fair proportion of mankind would prefer servitude; for it is far, far better to receive three meals a day and be told what to do than to take […]

Taking The Jesus Story Back To Basics

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

December 17 2002 O come, all ye faithful, this seasonal sentiment is not peace, writes Giles Fraser. The Catholic League of America earlier this year was up in arms about an exhibition in Napa, California, which included the caganer, a traditional Catalan figurine who is placed squatting in the corner of the Christmas crib, trousers […]

A Large, Mean Company

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

He [Mr Shorten of the Australian Workers’ Union] said morale was low after Western Port had introduced a series of “petty” cost-cutting measures over the past 12 months, including removing the chaplaincy and scrapping the hampers. “First they ban God and now they ban Santa,” Mr Shorten said. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/17/1039656376434.html

Jihad Manual Excerpts

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Attached is a translation of excerpts from ‘A Manual for Jihad, for Islamic Movement Activists’ (Panduan Jihad untuk Aktivis Gerakan Islam), published in Indonesia May 2001. This book can be ordered from the website of its publisher: http://www.gemainsani.co.id/1p.htm The author has published a number of books on Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia. The publisher, Gema […]

Scientist: Human Cloning Will Frustrate Expectations

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Scientist: Human Cloning Will Frustrate Expectations Professor Jaenisch: Clone Babies Have a Short Life Expectancy Cologne, December 17 (idea) – Human cloning will not live up to expectations according to one of the most successful genetic scientists. Professor Rudolf Jaenisch who teaches in Cambridge (USA) is highly skeptical of the Italian embryologist Severino Antinori. He […]

Anti-Americanism

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Probably anti-Americanism will be with us for a long time yet. This is a shame, because the one thing everyone notices about us Americans is how much we want to be liked. That, at any rate, used to be the thing everyone noticed. I do not think the yearning to be liked has departed from […]

Church Accused Of Bigotry

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 19 December 2002 Church bigotry fuelled events leading to 1941 massacre, Polish report says Warsaw (ENI). A report issued by a national research centre in Poland has accused the country’s predominant Roman Catholic Church of having helped fuel anti-Semitic feeling leading to the 1941 massacre of Jews in […]

Pajama Parties In Outer Space

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-244 (General Interest) PAJAMA PARTIES IN OUTER SPACE – Visits from Beyond BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #021211 If you wake up and discover that your pajamas are on backwards, it’s possible, says one writer, that aliens abducted you during the night. The author, John Mack, doesn’t write for some supermarket tabloid. […]

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