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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.

U.S. Military Spending

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

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0902/29bookman.html “You saw the movie ‘High Noon’? he asks. “We’re Gary Cooper.” (Think of the respect and friends the US would win if it redirected its intellect, energies and some of this lot toward saving the lives of starving Africans: “In 2000, we spent $281 billion on our military, which was more than the next […]

Prayer At The Opening Of A Senate

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

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in KANSAS at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard: “Heavenly Father, we come […]

Why Pit God Against Evolution?

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

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/tucker/2002/100202.html Why pit God against evolution? This is a little parochial, but it does get onto general matters, such as… “…many scientists believe in the existence of a Supreme Being and still accept the theory of evolution.” And… “The religious fundamentalists who provoked this controversy were no doubt buoyed by a seemingly small but critical […]

Muslim Asylum-Seekers

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

Subj: Australia: Asylum seekers in detention camps Australia is not alone in the world when it comes to facing the challenge of handling ever increasing numbers of asylum seekers from the Muslim world. While some, both Muslims and non-Muslims, are genuine refugees fleeing persecution, many are economic migrants without visas who, in spite of their […]

Science And Religion

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

First, a Netfriend posted this: The domain of the religious, I submit, is evocative, expressive, emotive. It presents moral poetry, aesthetic inspiration, performative ceremonial rituals, which act out and dramatize the human condition and human interests, and seek to slake the thirst for meaning and purpose. Religions-at least the religions of revelation-deal in parables, narratives […]

Life Challenges

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

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send along to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This joke today is not intended to be a joke, it’s not intended to be funny, it is intended to get you thinking. Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and […]

War And Religion

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

A friend on a newsgroup wrote in message . [Rowland Croucher wrote in message …] (Rowland, name me ONE conflict that religion has STOPPED – don’t bother trying to enumerate the ones it has started, I prolly won’t live long enough for you to finish that. Then explain why I should believe that ANY religion […]

A Letter To President Bush About Iraq

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The following letter was sent to President Bush by 28 American church leaders on September 12. Signatories include: the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, the General Secretary of the Reformed Church, the Primate of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church, the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, […]

Just War And Iraq

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

October 14 2002 “What frustrates us as Christian ethicists is that they (administration officials) are casting this totally in geopolitical terms, not in moral terms. And when you look at this through moral lenses, you see there’s no case,” said Shaun Casey, a professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary, a Methodist institution in […]

The Bishops’ Secret Letter

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

The Bishops’ Secret Letter CRISIS Magazine – e-Letter July 30, 2002 ********************************************** Dear Friend, When I started this e-letter in April, my primary motivation was to have a way to get urgent information to you immediately. There are some things that just can’t wait to be printed in the magazine. This is one of those […]

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