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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.

Interview with Rick Warren

AN INTERVIEW WITH RICK WARREN (AUTHOR OF “A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE”) Interview with Rick Warren , author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California . In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for […]

Tom’s last journey

March 14, 2006 Tom’s last journey by Doug Pritchard Our brother Tom has begun his final journey home. He left Anaconda military base at Balat, Iraq, at dawn on Mar. 13 (9 p.m. EST, Mar. 12), and is expected to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware at 1 a.m. EST, Mar. 14. CPT […]

Brian McLaren

I heard Brian McLaren the other day – and was impressed… Here are some notes from a netfriend: On the ABC ‘Local Radio’ channel was an interview on “Sunday Night Talk with John Cleary ” with Pastor Brian McLaren (formerly of Cedar Ridge Community Church http://www.crcc.org and still of http://www.anewkindofchristian.com/) McLaren discussed the “Emerging Church” […]

Ecumenical conversations on human sexuality

Ecumenical conversations on human sexuality Differing responses to ethical challenges posed by human sexuality have undermined common witness within and among the churches, the WCC organizers claim Tuesday, February 21, 2006 by Stephen Webb A series of ecumenical conversations has been organized at the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Porto Alegre, […]

Desmond Tutu: ‘We can only be human together’

ACNS 4115 | ACO | 23 FEBRUARY 2006 Desmond Tutu: ‘We can only be human together’ “A united church is no optional extra,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an impassioned speech to the World Council of Churches 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre. Rather, he said, it is “indispensable for the salvation of God’s world”. Tutu’s […]

C S Lewis and T S Eliot

C. S. Lewis on the very great evil of T. S. Eliots’ work This lecture is about two heroes of the intellectual conservative movement: C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot. Many of you will be familiar with their works and thought, and rightly assume that they both were influential spokesmen of the same tradition. […]

Israel and Mordechai Vanunu

by Paul P. Parker After serving 18 years in prison for blowing the whistle on Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, Mordechai Vanunu is now on trial again for violating extrajudicial restrictions Israel has placed on him. Vanunu, 51, an Orthodox Jew of Morrocan origin who converted to Christianity, is an ordinary man living his faith […]

A STRANGE ENCOUNTER

A STRANGE ENCOUNTER. (My life’s most fascinating story.) Written By Ed. F. Dickinson FAITD It happened on Monday, November 17, 1986. Gwen and I had been married I year and 40 weeks, and I’d been to a meeting of Melbourne’s Industrial Mission [I.T.I.M.] in the city. But let me put it in a wider context. […]

Naomi Wolf

Revered as a feminist icon, then slated for being an intellectual lightweight, Naomi Wolf has experienced highs as well as lows … and then she met Jesus By Torcuil Crichton SITTING on plump cushions in the faux drawing room of a London hotel , Naomi Wolf decides, for some reason, to talk about her epiphany. […]

Boreham on Charles Darwin and Thomas Edison

12 February: Boreham on Charles Darwin The Integrity of Science This, the birthday of Charles Darwin, furnishes an opportunity of stressing the essential virtue of the phase of life that Darwin so conspicuously adorned. Darwin was only 22 when, through the influence of his old teacher, Prof. J. S. Henslow, he was invited to set […]