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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.

Landover Baptist

“Mark Tindall” wrote in message news:… Who We Are and What We (And God) Believe Our Bible Based Policy Against The Unsaved As most churches liberalize themselves and reject the commandments written by God in the Holy Bible, the Landover Baptist Church continues to do exactly what scripture teaches every Christian to do. And that […]

Three reasons to stay an Anglican, for all its follies

By A N Wilson (10/04/2004) It would be a very bleak England in which, as during the 11 years of Cromwell’s Protectorate, there was no celebration of Easter. This year, as we have done for several years now, my little family will be going to a windswept medieval stone church in Cornwall, knowing that, if […]

Faith vs Works

“Griz” wrote in message . Hi Rowland. RC > >Griz, I can hear the point you’re making… But an interesting question: How do you fit James 5: 19-20 into your paradigm? Apparently Christian people bring back sinners, and actually ‘save the sinner’s soul from death’… ? GRIZ You see, we don’t need to “fit” anything […]

Orthodoxy

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… “Bob” wrote: If Jesus Christ is NOT God Incarnate, He was a LIAR Jesus never stated that he was God incarnate. Never! Others (towards the end of the writing of thenbible books) stated that (most notably John) How much heresy can you believe and still go to […]

Living With Fundamentalism

WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALISM? The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines fundamentalism as “the strict maintenance of traditional orthodox religious beliefs or doctrines”. We could describe it more fully as: A psychological disposition that inclines a person to cling unbendingly to certain rules and dogmas, holding that the major questions have already been resolved and all […]

The Curse of Fundamentalism: How Arrogance & Elitism Pollute Society

The Curse of Fundamentalism How Arrogance & Elitism Pollute Society by Robert R. Leichtman, M.D. “Many people need to realize how often they allow some ideology to do their thinking for them. Very gradually, fundamentalist ideas and beliefs have invaded their hearts and minds. Now, they rarely think for themselves anymore on key issues.” So […]

Religion in Our Time

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… from http://www.lightmillennium.org/summer_02/jmardin_karmstrong_p1.html Religion in Our Time: Will Our Faith Help us to Unite or Will It Continue to Divide? Karen Armstrong …….. It is a somewhat dizzying experience, almost like watching a pendulum swinging back and forth between the God of the mystics and the God of […]

Milton on doctrine

“Mark Tindall” wrote in message news:… From John Milton’s “Areopagitica” (1644) [Appleton- Century Crofts; New York:1951] p. 6 ” … as good almost kill a good man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image […]

Fundamentalism and the Modern World

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… Fundamentalism and the Modern World A return to the Dark Ages? Or a modern rebellion against secularism? Either way-as we’ve so painfully learned-we ignore this phenomenon at our grave peril. by A dialogue with Karen Armstrong, Susannah Heschel, Jim Wallis, and Feisal Abdul Rauf ….. Karen Armstrong: […]

Karen Armstrong on God

“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… Karen Armstrong – A History of God The 4,000 year quest of Judaism, Christianity & Islam. This book explores how the Jews transformed pagan idol worship into monotheism and how Christianity and Islam both rose from this foundation. Also explored are the variations of who or what […]