Apologetics
Criticizing Islam
December 2, 2010 Many Muslims are critical of the UN resolution. Asia Bibi may be executed because she criticised Islam. If a resolution now before the UN is successful, many more will suffer her fate. Barney Zwartz reports. LAST year Asia Bibi, a mother of five, was told to bring water to fellow workers in […]
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY TRENDS IN 2010
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 086 | Wed 15 Dec 2010 By Elizabeth Kendal 'In whom do you now trust?' (Isaiah 36:5b ESV) Religious liberty is in decline globally. Consequently persecution of Christians and repression of Christian humanitarianism and proclamation are on the increase globally. In the non-West, persecution of Christians continued to escalate […]
World Religions – December 2010
Barney Zwartz December 13, 2010 CHRISTIANITY remains the world’s biggest religion, but Islam is catching up while non-belief increased enormously over the past century but is now in sharp decline, according to the Christian Research Association. Australian religious trends of rising agnosticism and declining Christianity contradict most of the world, the association reports in its […]
Feast of the Holy Innocents December 27th
*Feast of the Holy Innocents: Prayers and peace procession from Victoria Barracks to Defence Plaza, Monday December 27 1pm-3pm.* In the days after Christmas, while most people are recovering from the indulgence of Christmas Day or deeply immersed in the liturgy of the Boxing Day Test, the Church calendar commemorates the Holy Innocents, the children […]
Why Bhutan Wants Anti-Conversion Law
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report December 13, 2010 Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas in South Asia, will soon have a law providing for imprisonment of three years for ¢â‚¬Å“proselytization. ¢â‚¬ Last week, the parliament of Bhutan approved inclusion of a new provision in the Penal Code to ban religious conversions by force or […]
WikiLeaks: the Weight of the Word
December 12, 2010 To oppose WikiLeaks is to be against press freedom and free speech. Are Julian Assange and WikiLeaks really doing anything that unusual? After all, leaks are one of the foundations of contemporary journalism. Leaks are one of the best techniques we have to peek behind the curtain of government. So the aggressive […]
THE BIBLE AND HOMOSEXUALITY, YET AGAIN
By Amy-Jill Levine ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 8 DEC 2010 The recent debates in the Australian parliament over gay marriage have followed the same wearisome pattern seen in so many other countries. Politicians try to manage their constituents, churches mount their vigorous defence of the definition of “marriage,” and the Bible, once again, is […]
HOW MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BECAME NONVIOLENT
By Stanley Hauerwas ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 8 DEC 2010 KING KNEW THAT THE WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT SUFFERING WITHOUT RETALIATION MUST BE BASED ON THE CONVICTION THAT THE UNIVERSE IS ON THE SIDE OF JUSTICE. Of all the stupid claims that Christopher Hitchens makes in his God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, […]
Religious Liberty Lost Worldwide December 2010
By Doug Bandow on 12.7.10 @ 6:08AM Americans take religious liberty for granted. Unfortunately, this most fundamental freedom of conscience and action is not protected in many other countries around the world. State repression is the most obvious assault on religious faith. Today Christians face the death penalty in Afghanistan and Pakistan in prosecutions for […]
Australian Spirituality
DISSATISFACTION AND THE SHAPE OF AUSTRALIAN SPIRITUALITY By Philip Hughes ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 26 NOV 2010 YOUNG PEOPLE JEALOUSLY GUARD THEIR RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS ABOUT RELIGIOUS FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY, BUT THEY DO NOT FIND THOSE DECISIONS EASY. Australia is a good place to live. It is well ordered. The basic […]
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