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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Russia: Social Justice and the Christian Churches (including some Baptists)

By and others ⋅ May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Supporting All in Their Search for God ——————————————————————  ¢â‚¬Å“Liberal secular humanist ¢â‚¬  holds riveting speech on Orthodox turf M o s c o w  ¢â‚¬“ On 25 May, the Russian Orthodox Church caused a sensation when it invited one of its long-time critics, a  ¢â‚¬Å“liberal, secular humanist ¢â‚¬ , to speak at the  ¢â‚¬Å“World Russian People’s Council ¢â‚¬  ¢â‚¬â„¢s annual […]

Algeria: Persecution of Christians

By and others ⋅ May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report —————————————————————- *Spurt in Christian Persecution in Algeria Needs Attention* —————————————————————- May 30, 2011 Three months after Algeria officially lifted its 19-year-old state of emergency following public protests inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has made it clear his regime will continue to impose restrictions. Last week, […]

Right-Wing Political/Evangelical Morality in the U.S.

By and others ⋅ May 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sightings 5/30/2011 *Humanism, Newt Gingrich and Sightings* — Martin E. Marty *Sightings* just entered its thirteenth year of keeping an eye on public representations of religion. Let ¢â‚¬â„¢s see, that ¢â‚¬â„¢s 13 times almost 52 weeks (my half of this bi-weekly publication.) By now, faithful readers can have drawn some conclusions about our conventional choices of topics. […]

Where is God in Fukushima?

By and others ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

St Alfs@6, 22 May 2011. Job 38:1-18 Ian Hore-Lacy “Where is God in Fukushima?” is really a focusing of Job’s question which God answered for him in the reading we have just heard.   But how do we understand the particulars of that today? The issue here and now is whether a rare and complex earthquake, […]

ETHICAL ARGUMENTS AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS

By and others ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Note from Rowland: My own views are not as below, but this is posted to provide ‘equal opportunity/pro-and-con’ arguments about this fraught issue… (see http://jmm.org.au/articles/22914.htm ) **** By Rod Benson et al. There is a bill before the Australian Parliament to change the current definition of marriage to allow same-sex couples to marry. The debate […]

Republic or Monarchy?

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By  Nick Cohen Friday, Apr. 29, 2011 During one of the royal pageants that periodically choke the streets of London, a conservatively dressed American approached me. “You must be so proud,” she trilled, and she became quite truculent when I told her I felt nothing but shame. “How can you hate your country?” she snapped. “What’s […]

Sam Harris’s Atheism

By and others ⋅ May 24, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

*Sightings* 5/23/2011 — Martin E. Marty  ¢â‚¬Å“Same Old New Atheism, ¢â‚¬  last week ¢â‚¬â„¢s clipping about religion sighted in the public sphere (it might as well be labeled  ¢â‚¬Å“Same New Old Atheism ¢â‚¬ ) is a 6800-word review which places the trendy  ¢â‚¬Å“New Atheism ¢â‚¬  in the context of previous efforts to establish scientific positivism in the place of religion. […]

Catholic clergy & sexual abuse of minors

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

WASHINGTON ¢â‚¬”A study by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, which examined the causes and context of the clergy sexual abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church, concluded that there was no single cause or predictor of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. The report added that that […]

India: Hindu Nationalism and the Persecution of Christians

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ———————————————————————— *A New Dimension of Christian Persecution in India* ———————————————————————— May 19, 2011 The politics of Hindu nationalism, which fuelled Christian persecution for over a decade in India, seems to be losing ground. With this comes the hope that India will never witness an incident like the massive flurry of […]

Jesus’ call to Non-Violence

By and others ⋅ May 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The International Ecumenical Peace Convocation convened by the World Council of Churches is currently happening in Jamaica. Here’s their Ecumenical Call to Just Peace: http://www.overcomingviolence.org/en/resources-dov/wcc-resources/documents/declarations-on-just-peace/ecumenical-call-to-just-peace.htmlInspiring stuff! It includes statements like, “Jesus told us to love our enemies, pray for our persecutors,and not to use deadly weapons. His peace is expressed by the spirit of the […]

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