Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-118 (Apologetics and Social Issues) CHANGING THE EQUATION: CULTURE AND INTERNET PORN BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #020520 – 20 May 2002 A recent headline in THE NEW YORK TIMES wins the prize for stating the obvious: “No Quick Fix to Fighting Pornography on the Internet.” The TIMES was reporting on the […]
Here’s an example of how we can help one another on an e-list: Rowland Croucher > A big thank you to the *many* people who responded to my request – both on and > off list. As is clear, the hymn is “Eternal Father Strong to Save” (AHB 74). > That will mean a lot […]
Hi folks, Ben van der Merwe, coordinator of our intercessors in Hobsons Bay, sent me to the website of St. Marks Lutheran Church, Melton, http://home.iprimus.com.au/klausb/index.html to discover that their website email contact is a webservant, not a webmaster. This set me thinking again about postmodernity, metanarratives, totalitarian language, and such. It would be interesting to […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-128 (General Information) RECENT REPORT ON U.S. USE OF INTERNET FOR RELIGION Summary 28 million Americans have used the Internet to get religious and spiritual information and connect with others on their faith journeys. We call them “Religion Surfers”. ——– 25% of Internet users have gotten religious or spiritual information online at […]
Introduction: The impact of the Internet is nothing less than earthshaking. Communications are instantaneous and information is abundant. Christians are coming to the internet by the thousands each week. In some ways, the Internet is a world of its own. Things are not always what they appear. Because of this there are some dangers that […]
Good advice from a ‘Net-friend (names deleted) Shalom! Rowland Croucher Remember the advise giving on insights into finding hymns using a search engine. Same goes for this sort of email. Anything the comes in and has you deeply worried and makes you think you should immediately send it to anyone you know to warn them […]
Do you have a few games of Freecell between other computer operations? I do, and I particularly enjoy playing fast. I’ve started listing the games where I needed to play more than once to find a solution. In the first 200 of Microsoft’s 1 million games on Windows XP they are 63, 92, 110, 114, […]
Rowland: (Again, everyone, unless you tell me otherwise, I’m assuming that anything on newsgroups is public domain. Yes, yes, yes, I know the other angle on that issue 🙂 Peter (all that follows): Well there are some considerations that bear mention. I suppose one might feel honoured, privileged, proud, whatever, at having their posts quoted […]
> Peter wrote an excellent essay on the ethical and > moral issues involved with archiving news posts. I snipped it. > > Peter, that was a very good read, and very thoughtful. I agreed with almost > all of what you wrote. > > There are a couple of fine points though, that I […]
The Internet has rekindled the zeal and magnified the power of hate groups. What can we do to fight back? Stacia Brown Hatred has gotten a facelift. With the help of Internet technology and cyberspace marketing, once-decrepit organizations like the Ku Klux Klan are regaining their youthful energy and competing for the attention of increasingly […]