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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.

Exodus Of The Palestinian Christians

Dear Sir The Palestinian Christian is an endangered species. When the modern state of Israel was established there were about 400000 of us. Two years ago the number was down to 80000. Now it’s down to 60000. At that rate, in a few years there will be none of us left. Palestinian Christians within Israel […]

Apostolic Advice For Those Who Work With The Established Church

Message From a netfriend: I have already learned so much from my old friend Soren Kierkegaard, and recently I stumbled on some pretty darn good advice from him about what it means to genuinely re-missionalize the church. In his terms and by his own admission, his sense of vocation before God was “to introduce Christianity […]

Perspectives: Iraq War And Call For Jihad

March 14, 2003 This week, fueled by fears of a pending U.S. invasion of Iraq, Islamic scholars at Cairo’s Al Azhar University, issued a statement urging a jihad in the event of an attack, calling upon “Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to be ready to defend themselves and their faith.” While commonly translated as […]

Liberalism And Evangelicalism In The U. S.

Why the secular creed should heed those who keep the faith Liberal America’s contempt for its evangelical counterpart is proving dangerously divisive, writes Nicholas Kristof. Claims that the news media form a vast liberal conspiracy strike me as utterly unconvincing, but there’s one area where accusations of institutional bias have merit: nearly all of us […]

Inca Jews

non-Jews… NEWS http://www.shemayisrael.com/chareidi/MP62aincas.htm. You should notice a few things: 1. They “Inca Jews,” were drawn to Judaism over the past two decades through reading the Bible. They were therefore not being evangalised, but the conversion was a formalisation of something the Indians had already decided for themselves inpendantly of any supposed Jewish evangalism. 2. They […]

Report From Korea By Bill Hybels

Dear Enews Friends, Ministry in Korea has always been a challenge for me and this time was no exception. The cultural chasms between our countries are much wider than most casual observers would discern. Beyond that, the church in Korea is deeply divided on many fronts. Where this gets tough for the WCA is that […]

Pro-Israel Statements

A list of truths 1. Nationhood and Jerusalem – Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish […]

Gandhi And Christianity

Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most respected leaders of modern history. A Hindu, Gandhi nevertheless admired Jesus and often quoted from the Sermon on the Mount. Once when the missionary E. Stanley Jones met with Gandhi he asked him, “Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear […]

Edgy Orthodoxy 4 Seekers

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-041 (General Interest) EDGY ORTHODOXY 4 SEEKERS by Terry Mattingly One of the Rev. Dwight Moody’s favorite perks as dean of the Georgetown College chapel is that he is free to spend most Sundays exploring other churches in Lexington, Ky. That’s how the Baptist preacher ended up in St. Andrew Antiochian Orthodox […]

Kicking The Secularist Habit

A six-step program by David Brooks ….. Like a lot of people these days, I’m a recovering secularist. Until September 11 I accepted the notion that as the world becomes richer and better educated, it becomes less religious. Extrapolating from a tiny and unrepresentative sample of humanity (in Western Europe and parts of North America), […]