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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.

Pluralism (Brian McLaren)

By and others ⋅ February 14, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

THE PLURALISM QUESTION (Many of the quotes here come from A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren).  ¢â‚¬Å“The plurality of religious traditions and cultures has come to characterize every part of the world today. But what is pluralism? Here are four points to begin our thinking: First, pluralism is not diversity alone, but  the energetic […]

Christian Fundamentalism vs Science?

By and others ⋅ January 12, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

From me mate Jim Reiher : I have thought a lot about why some Christians hitched their wagon to be climate change deniers or at best ‘sceptics’. I really wondered: why? The more fundamentalist the Christian, the more likely they are to be sceptics. But where is the ‘chapter and verse’ that tells the “Do […]

PARADIGM SHIFTS

By and others ⋅ December 27, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

PARADIGM SHIFTS I’m writing an(other) article on history’s – and especially Christianity’s – PSs, and also why some happen quickly, others take longer, and some – in a few quarters – not at all, together with an assessment of why we humans resist changing our minds on some things. Please offer ideas / URLs for […]

Miracles: Pro and Con

By and others ⋅ December 12, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

MIRACLES Quote from my talk to an interesting men’s group last night: 1. Amazing miracles – most of them – happen only during four periods of biblical history: Creation, Moses/Exodus, Elijah/Elisha, Jesus/apostles… 2. There’s little or no evidence that the following have been cured miraculously: 2-1 Advanced pancreatic cancer (see Philip Yancey’s book on Prayer […]

The End of the World is Nigh…

By and others ⋅ December 11, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Warning: the end of the world is nigh … Date December 9, 2012 Ted Harrison We’ve been told to prepare for the worst more than 200 times. ACCORDING to John of Toledo, it should have been September 23, 1186, but nothing happened. Judgment day failed to materialise again on April 5, 1761, as foretold by […]

Rob Bell’s New American Christianity?

By and others ⋅ December 4, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings    12/3/2012 Rob Bell ¢â‚¬â„¢s New American Christianity? — Martin E. Marty The public media evidently cannot get enough of  ¢â‚¬Å“The Hell-Raiser, ¢â‚¬  as Rob Bell is called in the current  New Yorker, or the harbinger of  ¢â‚¬Å“A New American Christianity, ¢â‚¬   as announced in the […]

Obama’s Re-Election (a Pox on Both their Houses!)

By and others ⋅ November 10, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Missing greatness: What Obama’s re-election means George Weigel ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 9  NOV  2012 THERE’S A NATIONAL WILL TO DIMINISHMENT EVIDENT IN BOTH THE POSSIBILITY THAT A FAILED PRESIDENT WOULD BE REELECTED AND THE INABILITY OF THAT PRESIDENT’S OPPONENTS TO MAKE A COMPELLING CASE FOR CHANGE. The most inane insta-pundit commentary had it that the 2012 […]

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Jewish Appreciation

By and others ⋅ November 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Idolatry and injustice: A Jewish appreciation of Reinhold Niebuhr David Novak ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 1  NOV  2012 RIENHOLD NIEBUHR’S EMPHASIS OF IDOLATRY AS THE PRIMAL SIN FROM WHICH ALL OTHER SINS DERIVE GAVE HIM EXCEPTIONAL THEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL CLARITY OF VISION, ESPECIALLY WHEN DISCERNING THE NAZI THREAT. It has become rather fashionable to hurl criticism at […]

Jesus’ ‘Wife’ – the latest

By and others ⋅ October 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School   Sightings    10/25/2012 The Swift Rise and Apparent Demise of  ¢â‚¬Å“Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ Wife ¢â‚¬  — Trevor W. Thompson and David C. Kneip On September 18, 2012, Prof. Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity School made public the so-called  ¢â‚¬Å“Gospel of Jesus ¢â‚¬â„¢ Wife ¢â‚¬  at a […]

Grace Beyond Comprehension

By and others ⋅ October 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com John 21:15-19  is possibly the most profound story in the whole Bible. It shows the simply, well ‘extravagant’ is too small a word for it, grace of God to sinners like you and me. Jesus deliberately singles out Peter and purposefully asks him three times if he loves him. This is […]

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