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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.

MARRIAGE EQUALITY: KEY RESOURCES

By and others ⋅ April 24, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources… Find these by googling titles etc. and adding jmm.org.au ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, including this one AA: A fairly thorough overview: Homosexuality & the Bible (6 articles) AAA: Too busy? Here’s just one (Steven Chalke’s) Prof. Gary Bouma (One group […]

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

By and others ⋅ April 23, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

LET’S MAKE IT SIMPLE: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? (A sermon) Preachers could learn from TED / TEDx talks. Their motto: ‘ideas-worth-spreading.’ The world’s leading ‘thinkers and doers’ – like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and a few hundred others – speak for 18 minutes or less. The talks are then posted daily, free, on TED.com […]

Dave Andrews, The Jihad of Jesus: The Sacred Nonviolent Struggle for Justice

By and others ⋅ April 22, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Dave Andrews, The Jihad of Jesus: The Sacred Nonviolent Struggle for Justice,  Wipf and Stock, 2015. Dave begins: I do not write this as an expert… [but] as a Christian, in conversation with Muslim friends  This is for Christians who’ve been listening to too many crusading combative pastors, like Mark Driscoll, and for Muslims who follow […]

WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? (I doubt it)

By and others ⋅ April 22, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

WAS JESUS A CHRISTIAN? (I DOUBT IT)
 Christians come in about 13 varieties. These varieties (or mindsets) can be found in all religions. You mustn’t judge any religion simply on its caricatures. My theses: Each mind-set makes part of Christianity the whole of it. There’s nothing wrong with the parts. But like a car, if […]

BELIEFS/AUTHORITY/VALUES TOE (A THEORY OF EVERYTHING)

By and others ⋅ April 22, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

The question: ‘WHAT ARE THE BEST REASONS – IN WHAT ORDER – FOR SOMEONE CHOOSING TO BELIEVE IN [THE EXISTENCE OF] GOD? What’s your experience? Here are my rough notes on ten classic routes from non-theism to theism/Christianity. I’ve put them in the order I’ve experienced them (both in terms of time, and relevance). Yours? […]

 Running Up the White Flag: Surrender as the Way to Follow Jesus

By and others ⋅ June 2, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

   by Nils von Kalm  Text copyright © 2016 Nils von Kalm All Rights Reserved ( Note from Rowland: this looks good: check it out on http://amzn.to/1VVG93R } “Scriptures about dying to self, finding one’s life by losing it, being crucified with Christ, and living only for Christ make it clear that realizing true fulfillment depends […]

Ethical Culture in Corporations

By and others ⋅ April 14, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Business values need to be consistent with society’s ethical expectations. The current buzzword in the financial services sector is “culture”. From bank executives proclaiming employee (mis)conduct that is inconsistent with their company’s culture, to regulators seeking to operationalise culture into a legislative standard and, most recently, David Murray, who led the Financial System Inquiry, invoking […]

The Lord’s Prayer is subversive…

By and others ⋅ March 26, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

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WHAT EASTER IS ALL ABOUT

By and others ⋅ March 21, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

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Book review – Man Enough: How Jesus Redefines Manhood

By and others ⋅ March 20, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com

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