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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.

Improving the quality of online discussion

By and others ⋅ September 8, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

The most important principles of constructive posting Take a constructive attitude. Think of everyone as fellow explorers comparing ideas in the pursuit of mutual edification. Flaming is not usually a flaw or sickness of a single individual: rather, it is a plague that affects the majority; it is a widespread *mode* of interaction. Learn how […]

Finding song lyrics in Google

By and others ⋅ September 2, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

To find any lyric type … ” ” lyric … into Google.

Netiquette

By and others ⋅ September 2, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Sociologists say that 70 percent to 90 percent of human communication is conveyed through body language and tone of voice. Only 10 percent to 30 percent is conveyed through words. … Flaming words Misunderstandings abound on the Internet. The result often is something called a flame war-the Internet equivalent of a shouting match. The heated […]

Now Everyone Say This With Me

By and others ⋅ August 28, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

I WILL NOT let others guilt me into sending things by telling me I am not their friend if I don’t return an email to them. Or that I don’t believe in Jesus Christ. If God wants to send me a message by using a PC, He certainly is not going to “test” me to […]

Tools of the virtual church, Part II

By and others ⋅ August 17, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 08/11/2004 Tony Campolo had a specific flock in mind as he prepared his first sermon for the 3-D, “virtual” sanctuary at the online Church of Fools. Using the lingo of his discipline, the sociologist referred to the typical wired worshippers as “religion-less Christians.” They yearn […]

Churches Of Virtual Believers, Part I

By and others ⋅ August 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 08/04/2004 No Tony Campolo sermon would be complete without his pulpit-shaking gestures of inspiration and exasperation, punctuating litanies of not-so-subtle digs at U.S. foreign policy, Hollywood, Wall Street and the Religious Right. As he ended one recent oration, the sociologist, urban activist and evangelical gadfly […]

Christian Myths and Urban Legends

By and others ⋅ August 8, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 1:16). What is an urban legend? Urban legends are stories that sound good, but have no basis in fact. They are rumors that keep getting passed on to others, but are not […]

A Founder of Christian Usenet Dies

By and others ⋅ August 5, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Max Borisoff, passed away Thursday morning July 29, 2004. Pastor General of the First Evangelical Church of Christ, he and his wife Kathleen reached out to our generation of the sixties and seventies to bring us back into the sheepfold of the Lord. With his wife, Max served the Lord in ministry for 34 years. […]

Delete spouse – online divorce brings annulment with a few strokes of the keyboard

By and others ⋅ July 29, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

By Michael Pelly July 27, 2004 Getting divorced keeps getting easier. These days it is simply a matter of logging on to log off your married life. No meeting with lawyers, no going anywhere near a court room – just you and your computer. Hundreds have used http://www.divorce.com.au, most of whom want to move on […]

Mark’s links

By and others ⋅ July 27, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Mark’s (a liberal Christian’s) links: Bishop John Shelby Spong Unofficial Fan Webpage http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1764/spong.html Dietrich Bonhoeffer http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/ Internet Sacred Texts Archive http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm Jewish Encyclopedia http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp John Mark Ministries http://jmm.org.au/ Judaism 101 http://www.jewfaq.org/ Virtual Seminary http://www.virtualseminary.net/ Beliefnet http://www.beliefnet.com/story/88/story_8849_1.html Alternative worship http://www.alternativeworship.org/ TalkOrigins http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/index.html Dangers of Fundamentalism http://anitraweb.org/activism/fundamentalism/ Armenian Apostolic Church Library Online http://www.armenianchurchlibrary.com/ Born Again Fundamentalism – […]

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