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Stolen voices of Muslim women
By Joumanah El Matrah April 22, 2005 Western discourse on the plight of Muslim women reflects ignorance at best, and racism at worst, writes Joumanah El Matrah. The shedding of crocodile tears over the plight of Muslim women has come to characterise many self-proclaimed feminists, journalists and government officials. The plight of Muslim women has […]
Internet Evangelism Ideas
INTERNET EVANGELISM – IDEAS ‘As for me and my mouse, we will serve the Lord’ [Here are some ideas I picked up at the Internet Evangelism for the 21st Century conference just completed in Lynchburg, Virginia (April 1-2, 2005). I’m writing this for the John Mark Ministries website (http://jmm.aaa.net.au) but if this reaches you via […]
Freedom in Islam? Not likely!
In some Islamic countries it is illegal for a Muslim to officially change his or her religion without the fear of some kind of retribution from family, relatives, friends, community or officials. In some Arab countries it is common for a person that is sentenced for the crime of apostasy (usually one who has become […]
Flaw of the Excluded Middle
Flaw of the Excluded Middle. A concept developed by missiologist Paul Hiebert in an article in Missiology 10:1 (January 1982, pp. 35-47) and later reprinted in Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues. Hiebert observed that the Western two-tiered view of the universe typically left out an entire dimension seen quite readily by people of non-Western cultures. […]
Christian Witness
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men (and women) virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. — Bertrand Russell
Stories from the Third World
(From a friend who works for an International Aid Agency) HAVE A NICE LIFE It’s time to pick up the pieces and go home for many former child soldiers at Northern Uganda’s Gulu compound.. But what do you tell Richard, gang-marched into a rebel army at age 12, now 8 years later he came back […]
The Art of Fromming
(Sent by Mark. For many, fromming is the reason why we have Christian schools, Christian movies, Christian nightclubs, Christian music, Christian aerobics, Christian TV. In fact, seemingly every aspect of popular culture and contemporary life sooner or later sprouts a Christian counterpart. Fromming has become the major justification for the Christian subculture now firmly rooted […]
Misreading Islam
By Michael Hirsh, Washington Monthly. Posted November 12, 2004. The disastrous war in Iraq is the consequence of a fundamental misunderstanding of Islam and its strong relationship to democracy in the Middle East. America’s misreading of the Arab world – and our current misadventure in Iraq – may have really begun in 1950. That was […]
Comparing Christianity & Islam
PETER KREEFT Two unsettling facts dominate the relations between Christianity and Islam: 1.. Dialogue is almost nonexistent. Islam resists ecumenical dialogue more than any other religion. To “proselytize” in any way in a Muslim country is to go to prison. 2.. Islam once nearly conquered the world, in the early Middle Ages when its empire […]
Islam – condensed for Christians
The teaching of Islam is that there is only one God, and that the God of Judaism and Christianity is the same as the God of the Koran, but that the teachings of the two religions are corrupted by man. The original teachings of the two religions was exactly the same as what is found […]
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