Apologetics
Noam Chomsky, Interventions, Penguin, 2007
Noam Chomsky, Interventions, Penguin, 2007 ¢â‚¬ËœIf you speak the truth, hang a foot in the stirrup ¢â‚¬â„¢ ~ Turkish proverb Noam Chomsky is ¢â‚¬Ëœthe world ¢â‚¬â„¢s greatest public intellectual ¢â‚¬â„¢ (The Observer), ¢â‚¬ËœAmerica ¢â‚¬â„¢s leading voice of dissent ¢â‚¬â„¢ (back cover), ¢â‚¬Ëœperhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet ¢â‚¬â„¢ (NY Times Book Review). Here are 44 […]
Yvette Flunder, Where the Edge Gathers
Some excerpts from an excellent book of essays and sermons by a black American woman/pastor/theologian, who has ministered for the past 25 years, as Jesus did, to people ‘on the edge’. She describes her ecclesiology as ‘Metho-Bapti-Costal’ and has a special concern for SGL people (‘same gender loving’ – easier than LGBTQI eh?). Excerpts/ key ideas: * African […]
Why the Black Death was the mother of all plagues
Updated October 13, 2011 PHOTO: Deadly plague: An illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible, 1411 (Wikipedia) Plague germs extracted from medieval corpses in a London cemetery have shed light on why the bacterium that unleashed the Black Death was so lethal and spawned later waves of epidemics. The DNA of Yersinia pestis shows, in evolutionary […]
Russia Restricts Religious Freedom
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 129 | Wed 12 Oct 2011 RUSSIA: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE RELIGIOUS LAW SIGNIFICANTLY RESTRICT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM by Anneta Vyssotskaia On Thursday 6 October the Russian Ministry of Justice made known to the public the proposed new amendments to the Law on the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organisations […]
Occupy Protest Chaplains’ Wisdom
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 Thank you! Welcome! You can do this too! Dear EVERYONE, We’ve been thrilled and overwhelmed by all the warmth and excitement we’ve received in the last few days. Our group is trying to sort through emails right now in addition to keeping the Spirituality tent up & running and scheduling the […]
Egypt: A Double-Bind Upon the Copts: dhimmitude in action
Posted: 10 Oct 2011 Over the weekend, violence on Cairo’s streets resulting in the deaths of dozens of Copts and the wounding of hundreds more. The killings occurred when the Egyptian military dispersed a protest against a recent incident of church destruction in Elmarinab village, in Aswan province. Videos, including footage shown on […]
Corruption in India (by Jyoti Thottam)
What would Gandhi do? Hazare channels the Mahatma As I listened to the crowds gathered in New Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan these past weeks in support of an anticorruption crusader named Anna Hazare, echoes of Cairo’s Tahrir Square were everywhere. Like the Egyptians who took to the streets of their capital, the Indians who got together in […]
The Universe is Expanding!!!
AS ALDOUS Huxley said about science, ”the more we know, the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness”. Indeed, while what’s written in the stars is, more often than not, the stuff of mystery to the layperson, this should never deter the march of science – a march that extends to […]
China’s rise calls for cool heads
by Malcolm Turnbull October 6, 2011OPINION China’s economy has grown 18-fold since 1980 and is expected to surpass the United States in 2016. Photo: Donald Chan Australia has every reason to be close friends with Beijing and Washington. The rise of China and, following it, India is a massive realignment of economic and, in due course, […]
Mark Durie: Speaking on Sensitive Topics
How do we speak reasonably about sensitive topics, and specifically ones which can give rise to charges of vilification? In ideal world, speech would be free, and everyone would use their freedom responsibly. But human nature being what it is, speech is never completely free, and human beings often act up in bad ways. How […]
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