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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.

Egypt: Recent Persecution of Coptic Christians

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The Dhimma Time Warp Returns for the Copts of Egypt In recent weeks a series of incidents in Egypt give evidence that, post-Mubarak, the Copts are being pressured to assume the time-warped status of dhimmis, a captive people in their own native lands, whose status is to be tightly circumscribed by traditional sharia law. The ancient dhimma […]

PORN

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

“Hard Core: The New World of Porn Is Revealing Eternal Truths about Men and Women” by Natasha Vargas-Cooper — in reading that is not for the faint of heart, the author reports that “in 2007, a quarter of all Internet searches were related to pornography. Nielsen ratings showed that in January 2010, more than a […]

Freedom of Speech

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Educating bigots MOIRA RAYNER APRIL 10, 2011 The problem with freedom of speech is that some people broadcast to a willing constituency, and others are effectively silenced. Syndicated columnists have the ear of millions. Unpopular minorities preach to the small ranks of the converted. The ideal remedy for targets of vilification and incitement to hatred is, […]

China, Ivory Coast update 14 April 2011

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 103 | Wed 13 Apr 2011 ————————————————— CHINA: BEIJING CHURCH SEEKS RIGHT TO WORSHIP FREELY ————————————————— plus Ivory Coast Update By Elizabeth Kendal The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insists on controlling all aspects of society, including religion. Christians are free to meet and worship, but only under the auspices […]

Miroslav Volf vs Scot McNight on Allah: A Christian Response

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Miroslav Volf, Professor at Yale, on the dedication page of his new book ¢â‚¬”Allah: A Christian Response, says this: To my father, a Pentecostal minister who admired Muslims, and taught me as a boy that they worship the same God as we do. Volf ¢â‚¬â„¢s quest is to build a theological basis for peaceful co-existence and […]

IVORY COAST: ISLAMIC AND WESTERN ‘INTERESTS’ MEET

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 102 | Wed 06 Apr 2011 ————————————————- IVORY COAST: ISLAMIC AND WESTERN ‘INTERESTS’ MEET ————————————————- By Elizabeth Kendal Ivory Coast (IC) is a nation on an ethnic-religious fault-line with a predominantly agrarian Muslim north and a predominantly urbanised, industrial and administrative Christian and animist south. Presidential aspirant Alassane Ouattara […]

IN DEFENCE OF APOLOGETICS

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By John Milbank 25 MAR 2011 The practice of “apologetics” has fallen into disrepute. This is in part due to the associations that cling to the word itself, which suggests, at worse, that one must apologise for something, and, at best, that one must defend a doubtful or compromised position. But it also has to […]

Abortion – and other patients’ rights

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By Leslie Cannold 25 MAR 2011 In 2008, Victoria repealed all abortion related sections from the Crimes Act. Among the provisions of the Abortion Law Reform Act that attracted opprobrium from the approximately 4% of Australians who oppose abortion in all circumstances was section 8, the conscience clause. Often misrepresented in public debates by opponents […]

Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response (a critical review)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ April 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

March 27, 2011 Review by Joel S Miroslav Volf, Allah: A Christian Response (HarperOne, 2011), 336 pp., $25.99. ¢â‚¬Å“Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Does the answer to that question have significant implications for how Christians and Muslims engage each other in the world today? ¢â‚¬ It was in answer to those two questions that Miroslav […]

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