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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.

War On Terrorism

Do we really think that our species has already evolved to the point where there are no people who will criticise us for speaking truth and no institutions which will kill us for speaking even more truth? Following the discussion on CPT’s Response to the “War on Terrorism”, I have wrestled with how to compute […]

The Baby Girl Chinese Population Control Police Couldn’t Kill

Source: UK Independent; September 24, 2001 Beijing, China — Ji Huansheng enjoys the deep sleep treasured by parents of any four-month- old infant. Cradled on the mud bed of her village home, her peaceful face belies the trauma that makes her mother weep, and the drama of her short life. Only her unusual name hints […]

Death, War And Afghanistan

That is, why does it sound so silly to Americans? During the Persian Gulf War, Saddam Hussein called it `The Mother of All Battles’, which apparently was good symbolism for his people. But to Americans, it just sounded silly. Spoof movies were made with slogans like `The Mother of All Movies’, and stores had `the […]

Tim Costello And The Sydney Anglicans

Some aspects of the kerfuffle between the president of the Baptist Union of Australia, Rev. Tim Costello and the ‘Reformed’ wing of the Sydney Anglicans, as Alice would say, get ‘curiouser and curiouser’. A few general observations: 1. I am thankful that some Australian holders-of-high-office (like the recent governor general Sir William Deane, Tim Costello, […]

Sudan: The Jihad Intensifies

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 139 – Wed 17 Oct 2001 ****** PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN IDOP: 4-11 NOVEMBER 2001 ****** * The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church * * To request resources – Australia: * * Canada: USA: * * Globally elsewhere: * ************************************************************* Persecution has been severe and unrelenting […]

Twin Towers – A Spiritual Reincarnation

— by Rabbi Laibl Wolf (Australia) No, I can’t make sense of it all. But I am determined to give the events meaning – to honour the gut-wrenching dissipation of loving souls gruesomely disemboweled from their loved ones for ever. My hand cannot reach across the ocean and comfort survivors and mourners. My wishful meanderings […]

Islamic Misogyny

Note that the “Islamic Misogyny” described in the following article is not a characteristic of the many well-educated and progressive Moslems who may be found around the Islamic world, especially among Indonesians, Iranians and Malaysians. “Islamic Misogyny” is emphatically a predominant characteristic of Supremacist Aggressive Islam (SAI), described in earlier issues of the Darby Report. […]

How Should Christians Respond To The Attack On America?

by Michael Jaffarian 20 September 2001 The better we understand something, the better we will be able to respond to it with Christian wisdom. For most of us, this attack is hard to understand. The question that has haunted me is, “Why such hatred?” There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, or nearly 20% […]

Persecution Of Christians Around The World

A Voice of the Martyrs Special Report —————————————————————————- —- By Tom White —————————————————————————- —- n its 1998 Special Issue, The Voice of the Martyrs listed 42 countries where Christians are facing persecution in its various forms: arrest, imprisonment, physical torture and death. The following is a summary of what is happening to the church in […]

How Should Christians Respond To The Attack On America?

by Michael Jaffarian 20 September 2001 The better we understand something, the better we will be able to respond to it with Christian wisdom. For most of us, this attack is hard to understand. The question that has haunted me is, “Why such hatred?” There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, or nearly 20% […]