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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.

Can Theology Save Us from Religious Polarization?

By and others ⋅ February 9, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Overview: Pragmatic Theology as Means of Mediating Religious Conflict In an important speech to the Yale Divinity School in April of 2004, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright told a story which got to heart of the problem of religious polarization. Shortly after September 11th, 2001, Secretary Albright served on a panel with Nobel Laureate […]

N T Wright Links

By and others ⋅ February 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

(From the Wrightsaid Yahoo page)… Links “01A= The N. T. Wright Page http://home.hiwaay.net/~kbush/wrightpage.html “We have, one Father, even God” A prima facie argument that the Gospel presents the Pharisees as being too confident in their sonship so that they had no need to repent and do good works. http://www.hornes.org/theologia/content/mark_horne/we_have_one_father_even_god.htm presbytermark Address to Sudents on Justification […]

Against The Spirit of Dogmatism – Paul Tournier

By and others ⋅ February 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

From Paul Tournier “The Person Reborn” (SCM:1967) “Life is short,” wrote Hippocrates. “and the art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgement difficult.” p.93 … each of us deduces from his personal experience a system of thought, which he sets up as the truth against all other systems of thought. … I have the […]

Bishop N T Wright on Anglican Schismatics

By and others ⋅ February 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/02/durham_tec_want.html#more Primates: Schismatics to be “pruned from the branch” “There are many in America who are trying to have their cake and eat it, who are doing the schismatic thing and then accusing those who object of being schismatic.” This is what Bishop of Durham Dr Tom Wright told me in a wide-ranging discussion we […]

A Pastoral response to ‘the homosexual question’ (two more responses)

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A pastoral response to ‘the homosexual question’ by Brian McLaren The couple approached me immediately after the service. This was their first time visiting, and they really enjoyed the service, they said, but they had one question. You can guess what the question was about: not transubstantiation, not speaking in tongues, not inerrancy or eschatology, […]

Modern Biblical Scholarship

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

From my liberal friend Mark (you’ll figure out when he’s responding to something from another poster): I want a TRUE (the truest?) version of Christianity for myself. Anything less than that is inadequate for me. All truth is God’s truth. Conversely, all that is not true is not of God … even if it is […]

Fundamentalism and mental health

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Robin Skinner & John Cleese “LIFE …and how to survive it” – (Methuen; London:1993) p. 270 – 271 John: So a religious idea will be interpreted by a person in a way that fits in best with their existing psychology? Robin: Yes, and it can therefore support them in functioning at the best level they’re […]

Facing up to fundamentalism

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Facing up to fundamentalism -Feb 01, 2007 “Fundamentalism has suddenly become a matter of concern for everyone, whether or not they are personally religious. It affects education in science and history; it affects political elections in some countries, and through this it affects international relations; it may affect the question of whether [hu]mankind survives [far] […]

Satan’s trick

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Someone just said: “Satan’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist.” Apparently it’s a line appearing in Bless the Child (“the devil’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist”) and The Usual Suspects (“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing man that he didn’t exist.”) C.S. Lewis had originally […]

Satan’s trick (more)

By and others ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A bad Arnie movie is on TV. End of Days. Someone just said: “Satan’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist.” Apparently it’s a line appearing in Bless the Child (“the devil’s greatest trick was convincing man that he didn’t exist”) and The Usual Suspects (“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was […]

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