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Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom?

By and others ⋅ November 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

  Muslims in the West: Loyal to Whom?   Posted: 13 Mar 2011   A briefing by Mark Durie   January 20, 2011   http://www.meforum.org/2848/muslims-in-the-west-loyal   Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist, and pastor of an Anglican church in Australia. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA, and […]

Evangelicals and Foreign Aid

By and others ⋅ November 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings    11/14/2011   World Vision Foreign Aid — Martin E. Marty   While polarization marks and blights politics in America today, and while popular culture, commerce, and religion are afflicted with the all-or-nothing ideologies and practices that prevent the citizenry from meeting the challenges which only intensify as seasons pass, here and there and now and then  Sightings  spies counter-signs. […]

PROBLEM GAMBLING: Pokies’ addictive feature ignored in misguided reforms

By and others ⋅ November 13, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Scott Eagar November 10, 2011 Pre-commitment won’t fix the real problem – and as a former addict, I should know. HI, I’M Scott Eagar and I’m a nobody, an everyday guy. I’m a roofer in the day and a boxing coach at night. I’m also an ex-poker machine addict. I used to be one of […]

Sacred Air at the Festival of Faiths (Martin Marty on the Environment)

By and others ⋅ November 11, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings    11/7/2011 Sacred Air at the Festival of Faiths — Martin E. Marty Writers who deal with current topics are expected to  ¢â‚¬Å“declare an interest, ¢â‚¬  which on occasion ¢â‚¬”today is an occasion ¢â‚¬”I do. For many of the sixteen years since the Festival of Faiths has been celebrated in Louisville, Kentucky, I ¢â‚¬â„¢ve been on the scene, and was […]

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011

By and others ⋅ November 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011 by Raymond Ibrahim Posted:  19 Oct 2011 This is a repost of an article published in Hudson New York. See  HERE.   An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, […]

Noam Chomsky: Invading, not investigating, has led to a decade of violence

By and others ⋅ November 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Noam Chomsky November 3, 2011OPINION   “Barack Obama has now added the risk of nuclear explosions”.  Photo: AFP As we all know, the United Nations was founded ”to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. The words can elicit only deep regret when we consider how we have acted to fulfil that aspiration, though there […]

Justifying Advocacy – Speaking Truth to Power

By and others ⋅ November 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

On Wednesday, 19 October 2011, Andrew Sloane of Morling College gave the 2011 John Saunders Annual Lecture, presenting a biblical and theological framework that justifies advocacy as a legitimate component of Christian involvement in the world, calling on  ¢â‚¬Ëœpower ¢â‚¬â„¢ to be used justly for the poor and disadvantaged. The John Saunders Lecture seeks to address […]

Islam: Dr Patrick Sookhdeo responds to critical Guardian article

By and others ⋅ November 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

On 9 September 2011,  The Guardian  newspaper in the UK published an  article  by Mehdi Hasan, senior political editor of the New Statesman, entitled  ¢â‚¬Å“How fear of criminalisation forces Muslims into silence ¢â‚¬ . This contained a number of specific and personal criticisms of Barnabas Fund ¢â‚¬â„¢s International Director, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo. This is not the first time in the recent past […]

Egypt: crescent vs cross (by a Christian and a Muslim)

By and others ⋅ November 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings    11/3/2011   From Tahrir to Maspero: Religious Tensions in Egypt Before and After the Revolution — Anthony Banout and Emran El-Badawi   It seems so long ago that the eyes of the world were fixed on Tahrir Square, where a broad cross-section of Egyptians peacefully asserted their fundamental right to self govern and took a stand for […]

The Occupy Movement: a comment from Moscow

By and others ⋅ November 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Occupy the Belly of the Beast 27 October 2011 By  Boris Kagarlitsky When asked where he worked, one of my economist friends from the United States answered,  ¢â‚¬Å“In the belly of the beast. ¢â‚¬  He meant Wall Street. For left-leaning and liberal Americans, Wall Street exemplifies the irrationality of modern capitalism. Many provincial conservatives also share this […]

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