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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.

William Temple

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Temple’s admirers have called him "a philosopher, theologian, social teacher, educational reformer, and the leader of the ecumenical movement of his generation," "the most significant Anglican churchman of the twentieth century," "the most renowned Primate in the Church of England since the English Reformation," "Anglican’s most creative and comprehensive contribution to the theological enterprise of […]

Billy Graham Is 80!

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Billy Graham celebrates 80th birthday looking forward to continued ministry By Staff MINNEAPOLIS (BP)–As evangelist Billy Graham looks to his 80th birthday on Saturday, Nov. 7, he counts the blessings brought by age and confirms his commitment to continue his crusade ministry — just two weeks after completing a crusade in the Tampa Bay area […]

Isaac Watts

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

In the years immediately after the Protestant Reformation, non-Roman Churches in the West were divided on the question of hymns. The Lutherans and Moravians immediately began to develop a rich tradition of hymns in the vernacular. Most of those in the Calvinist tradition, on the other hand, maintained that God had provided His people with […]

Doug Gresham’s Brother

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:23:15 +0000 To: From: Douglas Gresham <> Subject: Re: Doug Gresham Dear Rowland, At 18:55 16/12/98 -1000, you wrote: >Hi Doug, how are you? We are all well at this end, how are things with you folks? >Happy Christmas to you and yours. (Tonight the young couple fly in to […]

Dostoevsky [1]

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Some rough notes on DOSTOEVSKY: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Penguin Classics, 1991) ‘IF GOD DOES NOT EXIST, THEN EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.’ (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) ‘DOSTOEVSKY POSES QUESTIONS THAT ARE UNANSWERABLE, BUT ANSWER THEM WE MUST!’ ‘Russia’s evil genius,’ — Maxim Gorky (1905). ‘So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is […]

Dostoevsky [2]

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

DOSTOEVSKY: OTHER INTERESTING NOTES: Serge Mandeville : Ok , here’s my opinion on Svidriga ¯lov. My name is Serge, and I am currently working on a stage adaptation of Crime and Punishment with a Russian man named Igor Ovadis. First of all, Raskolnikov’s murder is not a bad choice, it is not a choice at all, […]

Francis Of Assisi

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Here are some thoughts written for a sermon on the Feast Day of St. Francis, 4 October, 1995. They’re not copyright. Feel free to reproduce, in their entirety, in any form. Francis of Assisi is, by general consent, the greatest Christian since Jesus. Pope Pius IX called him ‘the most perfect image of our Lord […]

Doug Gresham: CSLewis’ Stepson

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

I am constantly amazed at the wide variety of things in which people are interested concerning Jack and myself. As for the specific questions you asked:- What are you doing these days? I am kept fairly busy working as Artistic and Creative director to the C.S.Lewis Company, which is one of my full-time jobs, the […]

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