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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.

Worship: Acts of Love

Worship: Acts of Love “Don’t tell me, show me,” pleads a song in My Fair Lady. To say “I love you” is to say something wonderful, but sometimes we want more than words. We communicate not only by speech but also by action. “Actions speak louder than words,” we sometimes say. God knows this. In […]

A Psychological Analysis of Fundamentalism

From Mark: A Psychological Analysis of Fundamentalism Fundamentalism is a religious movement, a theological & philosophical stand, a political and social force. I regard it most basically as a particular variety of psychological development. Fundamentalists of all religious and political varieties share the same character traits. It is the psychological character of the fundamentalist that […]

Christian Confusion On End-Times Nonsense

From Mark: Christian Confusion On End-Times Nonsense “People who are obsessed with end times have never learned from history. They’ve been 100 percent wrong, 100 percent of the time.” – Hank Hanegraaff, CRI Christianity has never been immune from error in apocalyptic teachings that have continually led Christians astray. These errors of understanding have continually […]

Baptists, Biblicists, and Beyond

Sightings 2/26/07 — Martin E. Marty “Myths of the Baptists” is the mis-worded headline above a story reporting from across the Atlantic that does not treat all Baptists, and that also deals with more than just Baptists. John Whale of the Church Times and the Sunday Times reviews Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout’s survey-rich study […]

The Latest from the Archbishop of Canterbury

26 FEBRUARY 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury: Presidential Address at General Synod After the debates at the American General Convention last summer, I wrote directly to all the primates of the Communion to ask about their reaction and the likely reaction of their provinces as to whether the resolutions of Convention had met the proposals of […]

Nicea and the Canon

To this: There is plenty of evidence from the council ofNicea etc there were 18 gospels available, the RCC selected the 4 that most supported Pauline crap Roger responded: You might like to know that this story is completely untrue. The current source for it seems to be the “Da Vinci Code”, which of course […]

What’s so disturbing about grace?

Soundings No. 49 – 14 February 2007 by Peter Hobson As a Uniting Church minister, conversations about homosexuality and biblical hermeneutics are beginning to seem a bit tired. Our denomination has wrestled with issues of wholeness (and holiness), biblical faithfulness, Christian witness, authentic discipleship, costly grace and prophetic leadership over the last ten years or […]

Anglican Primates Meeting Communique

Primates Meeting Communique ACNS 4253 | ACO | 19 FEBRUARY 2007 Primates Meeting Communique The Communiqu © Of the Primates’ Meeting in Dar es Salaam 19th February 2007 1. We, the Primates and Moderators of the Anglican Communion, gathered for mutual consultation and prayer at Dar es Salaam between 15th and 19th February 2007 at the […]

Homosexuality: a conservative approach to 1 Cor 6

Re: http://jmm.org.au/articles/12636.htm No doubt it will surprise some that I actually did read the article. But I did. And what may surprise some even more is that I found it much better than most posts on the topic in these NGs. I was particularly pleased, for example, with the author pointing out that the now […]

Towards an Anglican Covenant

19 FEBRUARY 2007 Report of the Covenant Design Group The Covenant Design Group, appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of the Primates of the Anglican Communion, held its first meeting in Nassau, the Bahamas, between Monday, 15th and Thursday, 18th January, 2007. The Archbishop of the West Indies, the Most Revd Drexel Gomez, […]