Apologetics
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: six articles (and more)
[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]
It is Time for the American Christian Church to Surrender the Gay Marriage Fight…
Apologize & Share Love by Ian Ebright Sunday, November 13th, 2011 I need to clarify right out of the gate that this post will not focus on the ¢â‚¬Å“choice vs. birth vs. childhood ¢â‚¬ arguments related to the origin of homosexuality in an individual. We must start from the reality that acknowledges the American Christian church as divided on that issue, and will be […]
Homosexuality & Divorce: why not treat them the same?
Dr. Smedes, a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, was a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and the author of a dozen bestselling Christian books including To Forgive and Forget and All Things Made New. LIKE THE WIDENESS OF THE SEA? Lewis B. Smedes I remember the first time that I watched […]
Loving the sinner: hating the sin
On the last day of November 2011 I put this on to my Facebook site: Friends, I’ve not seen a decent article unpacking this idea: Andrew Marin’s book Love is an Orientation comes closest, as, from the conservative side, the EA’s Stereotypes book and a Sydney Anglican book published about two decades ago. So […]
Ethical behaviour more than just about following rules
Judith Bessant November 30, 2011OPINION 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 in […]
White Ribbon Day: Violence Against Women
It was White Ribbon Day on Friday – 25 November 2011 http://www.whiteribbon.org.au/ On White Ribbon Day 2011, disturbing & frightening statistics were released on the level of violence in Pacific & Melanesian communities. According to press reports,”Violence against women & exploitation of girls…..is endemic,with rates of abuse & rape now among the worst in the world”. “In […]
“JESUS CHRIST” AMONG WORDS BANNED FROM TEXT MESSAGES IN PAKISTAN FOR BEING “FALSE, FABRICATED, INDECENT OR OBSCENE”
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned ¢â‚¬Å“Jesus Christ ¢â‚¬ from use in text messages, among a list of terms deemed ¢â‚¬Å“false, fabricated, indecent or obscene ¢â‚¬ . The PTA wrote to Pakistani mobile phone companies on 14 November ordering them to start blocking messages containing nearly 1,700 banned words and expressions. The letter accompanying the dictionary of terms said […]
I’m Christian, unless you’re gay
I ¢â‚¬â„¢m Christian, unless you ¢â‚¬â„¢re gay. by DAN PEARCE on NOVEMBER 14, 2011 · Today I want to write about something that has bothered me for the better part of a decade. I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve carved out no fewer than a dozen drafts of this post, all strangely unalike, all ultimately failing to accomplish the job I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve set out to do. Truth […]
And Man Created God
And Man Created God 3:29pm Thursday, 22nd September 2011 Dr David Wilson of Sophia Think Tank reflects on a new book on how man tries to remake God. A school chaplain recently told me that Atheism is considered to be the ¢â‚¬Ëœnew cool ¢â‚¬â„¢ amongst students she works with. At the Book Launch of Robert Banks ¢â‚¬â„¢ latest […]
Institutions and freedom
‘Liberal institutions cease to be liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions’ ~~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ‘All institutions are inherently degenerative’ ~~~ Sociologist Robert Merton
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