Apologetics
Masturbation: the Scientific Case
Since Christine ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢m Not a Witch ¢â‚¬ O ¢â‚¬â„¢Donnell is campaigning for the U.S. Senate and not the directorship of the Kinsey Institute, maybe we should give her a pass when it comes to her views on sex and, specifically, masturbation. But that would be a mistake: the stakes are simply too high, going all the way up […]
Polygamy
Kody Brown with his four ‘wives’ (from left) Janelle, Christine, Meri and Robyn are fighting Utah’s anti-polygamy laws in the US Federal Court. Photo: AP ”MY name is Kody Brown, and you’ve got to meet my family. I’m a polygamist, but we’re not the polygamists you think you know.” So says the upbeat advertising salesman with […]
MORAL PROGRESS AND ANIMAL WELFARE
By Peter Singer ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 14 JUL 2011 PERHAPS THE BEST HOPE FOR FURTHER PROGRESS LIES IN ANIMAL WELFARE BECOMING, LIKE HUMAN RIGHTS, AN INTERNATIONAL ISSUE THAT AFFECTS COUNTRIES’ REPUTATIONS. Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals […]
Australian Muslims and Sharia
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 8:22am Its hard to be a Muslim Australian in Melbourne, on Monday July 11 2011. First, the Herald Sun and its demanding headline,”Give us our own laws,say Islamic leaders” 11.7.11) http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/give-us-our-own-laws-say-islamic-leaders/story-fn7x8me2-1226091923217 Then came, Today Tonight’s,emotionally charged,”Ruled by Islam’s Laws”. http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/9822791/none/ruled-islam-laws Both stories were based on a series of interviews by […]
Compass on the ABC: Same Sex Marriage
Summary Geraldine Doogue invites six people to dinner to explore arguments for and against same sex marriage in Australia. Last week Compass featured the stories of three same sex couples who would dearly like to get married – if only they could. This week we hear a range of different views on this issue: Anglican […]
In The Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God by Gene Robinson (excerpt)
An Excerpt from In The Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God by Gene Robinson Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be elected bishop in the Anglican Communion, shares his vision and understanding of Christianity. Here is an except on the spiritual practice of love. “This life-changing work of the […]
Rowland Croucher: YouTube of CraveMCC (Sydney) address
What does a ‘hetero’ person say to an ‘Inclusive’ church?
It’s a Boy
Largely as a result of sex-selective abortions, Asia today is short of 160 million women. They have disappeared silently over several decades, but their absence can be seen in classrooms filled with boys, in huddles of bachelors on city streets and in higher rates of bride trafficking and prostitution elicited by growing numbers of sexually […]
Climate change: When science is undone by fiction
The myth of Climate-gate has endured because of media failings. Geologist and long-time climate change denialist Bob Carter materialised on this website on Monday, reprising a weary routine – tiptoeing through the scientific archive to find the morsels of data that might, with a twirl here and a shimmy there, contrive to support his theory […]
God, Dawkins and tragic humanism
In a new book, Terry Eagleton argues that liberal humanism woefully underestimates the horrors of which humans are capable guardian.co.uk, Thursday 11 June 2009 11.00 BST Another week, another book chastising, or cheering, the new atheists. God can’t have had such publishing appeal since a bunch of renegade Jews, who followed a loser called Jesus, […]
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