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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.

Stem Cell Research – Comments

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

:>MEDIA RELEASE :>The NSW Council of Churches :>ADVANCING A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE :> :>March 19, 2002 :> :>CHURCHES SAY: “PUT BRAKES ON EMBRYO STEM CELL RESEARCH” :> :>The NSW Council of Churches has expressed concern at Premier Bob Car’s :>apparent desire to rush into approving embryonic stem cell research. The :>Churches urge the Premier to exercise […]

Beliefs

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

From: “Andrew Bromage” Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.atheism.satire,aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Ignorance for freethinkers? > G'day all. > > “Muddy Boggs” writes: > > >There is no proposition that is not expressable in symbols, but if you are > >not comfortable working with the symbols, then forget symbolic logic. > > One of my majors was mathematical logic. > […]

Stem Cell Research – Another Note

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

From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Subject: Re: Stem Cell Research > “Bob Howard” writes: > > > >”John Fulton” wrote in message > . > >> :> > >> :>March 19, 2002 > >> :> > >> :>CHURCHES SAY: “PUT BRAKES ON EMBRYO STEM CELL RESEARCH” > > >John, your view is surprisingly liberal. The […]

Evolution – Another Theory

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/11/education/11CREA.html?todaysheadlines February 11, 2002 In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory Will Seek a Place Alongside Evolution By FRANCIS X. CLINES COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 4 – The latest challenge to evolution’s primacy in the nation’s classrooms – the theory of intelligent design, not the old foe creationism – will get a full- scale hearing next […]

The Social Psychology Of Modern Slavery

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

Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence By Kevin Bales SUBTOPICS The New Slavery Free Your Mind Instead Plausible Deniability Forty Acres and a Mule For Meera, the revolution began with a single rupee. When a social worker came across Meera’s unmapped village […]

Child Sexual Abuse: The Church’s Days Of Reckoning

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

G’day. This article was included in the Vatican daily email despatch today. Its contents are relevant to all of us in public church ministry. I think its coverage of the process and need for mechanisms of safety and accountability, both in the training for and conduct of pastoral duties are very relevant to all of […]

Science, Religion, And The End Of The World

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

Science & Religion: No Ends in Sight By Freeman J. Dyson The God of Hope and the End of the World by John Polkinghorne Yale University Press, 154 pp., $19.95 Sir John Polkinghorne is a well-known physicist who spent twenty years doing research in theoretical particle physics and then switched to theology. He was ordained […]

Persecution Update

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

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 153 – Tue 29 Jan 2002 DURING JANUARY WE HAVE PRAYED CONCERNING – SAUDI ARABIA: for the Christian house fellowship leaders in detention in Jeddah. Prison conditions are deplorable and the imprisoned men were reportedly discouraged, unwell and anxious for their families. imprisoned in Saudi Arabia during the July-August […]

The Essence Of Christianity

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

Human beings have three basic needs – for unconditional love, a sense of belonging, and a purpose for their lives. When I was asked to speak about the essence of Christianity tonight, I thought of these these three basic human needs – they partly explain why I am a follower of Jesus. 1. ACCEPTANCE / […]

Embryonic Research

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28 February 2002 EMBRYONIC RESEARCH IS DEEPLY UNETHICAL DECLARES EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND CARE IN JOINT STATEMENT Using cloned human embryos for stem cell research is deeply unethical and opens up a “dangerous pathway” to reproductive cloning, warns the Evangelical Alliance and CARE in a joint statement today. Permitting research on human embryos also flies in […]

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