Apologetics
Being a woman in Saudi Arabia
Saudi women enjoy a small win – in the lingerie department Doyle McManus December 29, 2011 ‘If this modest wave of liberalisation continues, they may even get fitting rooms.’ Progress in the kingdom comes slowly, and not at all surely. Women in Saudi Arabia won a small but promising victory this year. No, they are […]
25 LISTS OF EVERYTHING INTERESTING/IMPORTANT
Dear friends I’m making 25 lists of 25 important/memorable/helpful items/ideas. Anything missing? We’ll have to factor it in to one of these (watch this article): 25 LISTS OF 25 1 MOST INSPIRING PEOPLE WHO’VE EVER LIVED 2 MOST MEMORABLE PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE 3 GREATEST CHRISTIAN HYMNS/SONGS 4 GREATEST SERMONS EVER PREACHED 5 GREATEST […]
Australia’s Labor Party and Gay Marriage
A lethal threat lies behind Labor’s reversal on gay marriage PETER COSTELLO December 07, 2011 IN 2004 Parliament legislated a formal definition of marriage as ”the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. The amendment was contained in a bill that sailed through the […]
Illegal immigrants? Asylum Seekers? Refugees?
THE BEST SOLUTION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION??? Opposition has key to stopping boat arrivals BY: GREG SHERIDAN, FOREIGN EDITOR From:The Australian December 24, 2011 12:00AM A TITANIC battle of wills took place yesterday between the Gillard government and the Abbott opposition and, as far as we can see, the opposition is not going to remove […]
Corruption index 2011 from Transparency International
Corruption index 2011 from Transparency International: find out how countries compare Which country is most corrupt? North Korea is now officially considered the world’s most corrupt country, along with Somalia. But why has the US gone up one place and the UK’s score improved? See how the annual corruption index has changed Corruption index 2011 […]
Global Christianity: the World’s Christian Population 2011
22 Dec. 2011 With Christmas fast approaching, the Pew Research Center ¢â‚¬â„¢s Forum on Religion & Public Life published a new comprehensive demographic report on the size and distribution of the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s Christian population. The study finds that there are 2.18 billion Christians of all ages in more than 200 countries around the world, representing nearly […]
International Atrocities
Witness for the Prosecution. The life and times of a judicial emissary… Erik Tanner for TIME December 19, 2011 In the six decades following world War II, no fewer than 313 international and internal conflicts have erupted, killing up to 101 million people by one estimate. Many were victims of crimes against humanity, but most […]
Atheism in America
Sightings 12/12/2011 — Martin E. Marty Picking up from where we left off last week [??? where?] on “practical atheism:” Atheism shows up in our Sightings on occasion, partly as a refreshing alternative to the over-covered examples of ¢â‚¬Å“religion-in-American-public-life ¢â‚¬ which crowd the cable television channels and headlines: you know, like stories of the piety of quarterback […]
IRAQ: PROPAGANDA VERSUS REALITY
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 138 | Wed 14 Dec 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal By 31 December 2011 all US and NATO troops will have completely withdrawn from Iraq. Whilst the US and NATO had wanted to keep thousands of military trainers there, the Iraqi parliament — dominated by pro-Iran Shi’ites — ruled […]
EATING PEOPLE IS WRONG…
Here’s an excellent comment in a Facebook thread Peter Robert Green: First, there has never truly been a Judaeo-Christian country. * Second, the influence of Christianity on wider society ebbs and flows depending largely on the health of the churches * Third, the influence of Christianity, despite the shrill complaints of radical secularists, is currently […]
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