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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

Modern biblical scholarship

Spirt is intrinsically related to mind. They CANNOT be separated. Christian philosophers use spirit and mind as correlations. Logic and reason ARE spiritual. Religious matters are NOT the same as spiritual matters. Religion has to do with ritual. Spirit is related to the mind. Your false dichotomy between mind and spirit produces a type of […]

Claims of the Bible

extract from http://www.quango.net/brinsmead/RELIGIONANDMYTH.htm ************************* … There are two ways to approach the New Testament. You can come to it with a religious belief, that is to say, you can entertain a mythological view of the New Testament which exists independently of any investigation of what the documents say for themselves. You can treat the New […]

Torah/Noahide Covenants

Netfriend: Hi all The covenant of Noah (genesis ch 9) applies to all mankind today, and has laws and rules associated with it. There is a website which discusses this covenant. It is found at: http://www.geocities.com/torahcovenants If anyone is even slightly curious about this covenant, please feel free to contact me for further information. Response […]

Doing theology a post-age

(by Kim Thoday) We are increasingly aware that we live in a postmodern world. The notion of postmodernity is a difficult one. It is slippery from all viewpoints. For instance, is not ‘post’ a modernist linear view of history? And if we accept ‘post’, ‘post what’ exactly? Perhaps the terminology of post-age is helpful. For […]

Thoughts To Ponder

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. – Cardinal De Retz I dislike blasphemy on purely rational grounds. If there is no God, blasphemy is stupid and unnecessary; if there is, then it’s damned dangerous. – Flan O’Brien If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – […]

Ministry In The Postmodern World

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-021 (Leadership Issues) MINISTRY IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD by Siu Fung Wu Facing the challenges of postmodernity ————————————– There is no doubt that the world has changed enormously in the past decades, and it is undeniable that the way we do ministry has to change. What worked twenty years ago may not […]

The Bible As Our Bread For 2002

The Bible as our Bread for 2002 In these difficult times, our hunger is for the assurance that God loves us, that we are still persons created in His image and that God has sent the message of our redemption through His Son Jesus by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. That assurance makes the […]

Borrowings From Other Cultures

Newsgroup poster: Homosexual acts were part of pagan worship. God was very precise in telling us that He wanted no part of pagan rituals in his church…this included sacrifice. Mark responds: Pagan practices also included wearing white for a wedding and the wedding ring …but the church condones these pagan practices. Please explain. NP: This […]

Litany And Rome

From all sedicion and pryvie conspiracie, from the tyrannye of the Bysshop of Rome, and al hys detestable enormities, from al false doctryne and heresy, from hardnes of hearte, and contempte of thy worde and commaundement. Good lord, deliver us. from the Litany, 1549 BCP

Religion Report On State Of The Anglican Church

Anglicans Together? 8 October 2003 Printer friendly version print-friendly Challenges for the impending Melbourne and Sydney Anglican synods Program Transcript Stephen Crittenden: Welcome to the program. The worldwide Anglican communion is approaching a showdown between conservatives and progressives at a special meeting of the Anglican Primates from around the world, convened by the Archbishop of […]