Apologetics
Mormon for President? So what does he believe?
Mormons Weigh In On Beliefs, Presidential Race In Pew Survey First Posted: 1/11/12 12:04 AM ET Updated: 1/12/12 11:40 AM ET Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, arguably the nation’s best-known Mormon, once was a Mormon missionary. He drinks neither coffee nor tea. His wife, according to Mormon tradition, keeps months’ worth of food storage for emergencies. The presidential campaign, along with TV shows […]
MUSLIMS, MYTHS AND MORAL PANIC
(Note from Rowland: this is a good article, sympathetic to Islam. My concern is not about made-up stories, but the ones Waleed doesn’t cite which are not made-up. Google Mark Durie’s Blog for many examples). ~~~ Waleed Aly ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 9 JAN 2012 SO MUCH CONTEMPORARY RAILING AGAINST MULTICULTURALISM AND THE THREAT OF ISLAM IS […]
EVANGELICAL ATHEISM, SECULAR CHRISTIANITY
John GrayABC RELIGION AND ETHICS9 JAN 2012 EVANGELICAL ATHEISTS NEVER DOUBT THAT HUMAN LIFE CAN BE TRANSFORMED IF EVERYONE ACCEPTS THEIR OWN, SUITABLY EMBELLISHED, WAY OF LIVING. An atmosphere of moral panic surrounds religion. Viewed not so long ago as a relic of superstition whose role in society was steadily declining, it is now demonised as the […]
Women and Orthodox Judaism
Published 02:48 30.12.11 Orthodox Judaism treats women like filthy little things If a man and a woman are drowning in a river, first they’ll save the man, ‘who is obligated to perform more commandments,’ whereas a woman’s ‘wisdom is only in the spindle.’ In fact, ‘words of Torah should be burned rather than being given […]
Egypt: the latest
markdurie.com blog Outlawry in Egypt: the disturbing case of Sayyid Al-Qemany, friend of freedom Posted: 06 Jan 2012 01:31 PM PST Things are not going well for lovers of freedom in Egypt. Egypt is under a moral and spiritual siege. Freedom of speech is deteriorating rapidly, because of rather than in spite of the ‘Arab […]
Islam and Modern Politics
Arab Democracy Is the Best Bet for a Muslim Reformation When the state isn’t hostile to religion, Islam isn’t a bankable political issue. By Matthew Kaminski Egypt left a couple of enduring images to finish the year of Arab tumult. There were the long lines of patient faces, each waiting to cast the first meaningful […]
Russia: Europe’s most religious nation
By Fred Weir 20 years after the collapse of the atheistic Soviet Union, faith is no longer floundering JewishWorldReview.com | OSCOW ¢â‚¬” (TCSM) Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history’s most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in the Divine ¢â‚¬” more than in any other […]
NIGERIA: BOKO HARAM THREATENS CHRISTIANS
Update January 10, 2012: Also NIGERIA UPDATE (urgent) On Monday 2 January Boko Haram issued an ultimatum giving Southerners and Christians three days to leave the North or face further violence (see RLPB 140). They are fulfilling their threat. On 4 January bombs exploded in Maiduguri (Borno) and Damaturu (Yobe) killing 20. On 5 January […]
Radical Islamic Revival
Boko Haram, the Arab ‘Spring’, and the radical Islamic Revival Posted: 30 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST This past week, as I read the grim news of Christmas killings in Nigeria, there came back to me the words of Shaikh Khalid Yasin, an African-American convert to Islam and globe trotting preacher, who visited Australia back in […]
Ethical behaviour more than just about following rules
Judith Bessant November 30, 2011 Public trust has been eroded, but there is a way to remedy this. If all the plastering of codes of ethics and value statements on the walls of meeting rooms in corporate and government organisations is anything to go by, we may well draw the conclusion we are living […]
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