Apologetics
These facts/opinions got me thinking…
One of the publications I enjoy reading regularly is the Australian Quarterly Essay, in which an expert in political science or international affairs is invited to write a 25,000 essay on an important current issue. The following edition has responses by other experts The September 2010 edition focussed on Power Shift: Australia ¢â‚¬â„¢s Future Between Washington […]
SUDAN: REFERENDUM SOON AND WAR LOOMS
Voter registration commenced on 15 November for Sudan’s Southern Self- Determination Referendum (SSDR) to be held on 9 January 2011. In this referendum Southerners, who are black African and mostly Christian, will vote either to remain part of a united Sudan or to secede and become an independent state. The SSDR is mandated in the […]
Why there are no suicide bombers on Israeli buses
In Seville, Spain, the City Council authorized the construction of a Mosque on one of the empty pieces of land. The citizens did not want the mosque built in their vicinity and found a brilliant solution. They buried a pig in the land, and made the news public. The Islamic law prohibits the construction of […]
A ‘Buy Nothing’ Day: Now there’s a good idea!
Saturday was International Buy Nothing Day, not that anyone here knew anything about it. We'd like to suggest Keep Your Receipts And Return It If You Don't Really Need It Week, as the obvious alternative, what with Christmas coming. READ ON <http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/a-little-ray-of-sunshine-20101128-18cg7.html> Prepare for Christmas with … buy Nothing Day. READ ON <http://www.whatwouldjesusbuy.org.au/christmas.htm>
The Poor Are Us: Poverty and Mutual Fairness
THE POOR ARE US: POVERTY AND MUTUAL FAIRNESS By John Milbank ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 22 NOV 2010 The UK Coalition government has recently unveiled plans for a wide-ranging reform of the welfare benefits system. This, in summary, involves three things. First, switching from a confusing number of myriad entitlements to one universal credit […]
Technology and wealth
Two Oz current (12 April 2010) news items to make you think: * ‘Medical radiation is estimated to trigger about 400 cancers a year here’. * ‘The richest 1% of taxpayers – now 9.8% of all income; in 2002-3 they earned 8.8%. The 15000 ‘super rich’ – 0.1% (incomes $693,000+) = 3.6% of taxpayers (up […]
Winston Churchill: The Ugly Briton
The Ugly Briton A scholarly account of Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine leaves his reputation in tatters By SHASHI THAROOR Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 Few statesmen of the 20th century have reputations as outsize as Winston Churchill’s. And yet his assiduously self-promoted image as what the author Harold Evans called “the British Lionheart on […]
The Sacrifices of War
The sacrifices of war ABC Religion and Ethics | 11 Nov 10 In his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges, a war correspondent, tries to explain why he became so addicted to war that he could not live without being in a war. War had quite simply captured his imagination, […]
Eritrea: persecution of Christians and others
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report ————————————————————————- *Tackling the Root Cause of Christian Persecution in Eritrea* ————————————————————————- November 29, 2010 Eritrea, one of Africa ¢â‚¬â„¢s newest and smallest countries, has jailed, tortured and killed numerous evangelical protestant Christians over the last eight years. Concerns over Christian persecution have been raised at various international forums, but there has […]
COULD ANYONE BELIEVE IN PULLMAN’S JESUS? (Alister McGrath)
ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 19 NOV 2010 PHILIP PULLMAN’S POLEMICAL FABLE IS SO UTTERLY IMPLAUSIBLE THAT IT FAILS EVEN THE MOST TRIVIAL CRITERIA OF HISTORICAL AUTHENTICITY. Some of my atheist friends got quite excited a year ago when they heard that Philip Pullman was writing a book about Jesus. Such a book would surely […]
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