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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

Nike’s Sweatshops

Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah Peretti filled out the form and sent them $50 to stitch “SWEATSHOP” onto his shoes. Here’s the responses he got… * * * * * * * * * * […]

Harry Potter Books

Hello, everyone. Firstly, please do me a huge favour and e-mail me your responses to this as well as posting them I normally don’t forward e-mails of a histrionic nature, but in this case I felt it prudent. A parent at our school here sent in a “reprint” of an article claiming that the popular […]

Homosexuals Have Feelings

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:20:23 +1300, “Bob Howard” wrote: >What appals me about these people is their total lack of sympathy for the >feelings and problems of homosexuals. They judge them but make no attempt to >find out how homosexuals feel or why they do whatever they do. Their >thinking is very rigid. They […]

Harry Potter [2]

Nathan Zamprogno wrote in message . > I’m not defending the Harry Potter books, and I freely admit I haven’t > read them. But I can smell hysteria a mile off, and nothing makes me > crankier than people who just won’t think. > — > Nathan Zamprogno, > I.T Manager- John Wycliffe Christian School. […]

Creation Science

Dennis Kikendall wrote: > Some interesting facts. Dennis provides an example of what I have been saying to James Scully about non-evidence for young Earth. > Did you know that: > > 1.NASA expected that if the moon had been collecting > cosmic dust for > millions or billions of years that the dust layer […]

Dear Dr. Laura (Response From A Jew)

Rowland Croucher wrote: > (Laura Schlessinger is a Canadian radio personality who dispenses advice to > people who call in to her radio show). She is also a convert to Judaism. > a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a > pleasing odor for the Lord […]

Young Earth (The Orthodox View)

A friend 1 <> wrote: >>Still hanging onto a young earth? Friend 2: > Yes as a matter of fact. 🙂 Friend 3: This response indicates to me that [our friend] is either not reading my responses, or is so locked into a young earth that he genuinely can’t deal honestly with the problems. In […]

Dysfunctional Society And Aboriginal Issues

Dysfunctional Society by Noel Pearson Noel Pearson looks at the plight of Aboriginal people through a prism of class and comes up with a challenging perspective on Aboriginal welfare, law and order and the state of our society. Noel delivered this Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture at the Bathurst Panthers Leagues Club on Saturday 12 August […]

Aboriginal ‘Stolen Generations’

Dear friends, Please forgive this intrusion. I’m close enough to this and related issues to feel justified asking you to read the following in order to know at least part of the other side – the victim’s side – of this, particularly for Australian Aboriginal people, extremely serious matter. Please read and thoughtfully pass along. […]

Our Consumer Culture

OUR CONSUMER CULTURE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Once, we shopped to buy what we needed, period. Now that we don’t need much, we shop for other reasons: to impress each other, to fill a void, to kill time. A mere 20 percent of the earth’s population uses 80 percent of its natural resources. Our overconsumption […]