Apologetics
Islamist Violence: Martin Marty’s call for response-moderation
Blasphemy and Freedom by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Jan 12 2015 Thus, obviously, the murderers at the office of the French satirical magazine were simply evil. Obviously, the killers were motivated by their obsession with their version of Islam to do the evil act. Obviously, haters of Islam could be counted on immediately to […]
Universities prove fertile ground for Islamist propaganda
Islamophobia is the first line of defence for jihadist ideology in the West  not by chance but by design.Source: AP UNIVERSITIES justify their billion dollar budgets by claiming they are a public good essential to the health of liberal democracy, but how well have they defended the public against the illiberal ideology of Islamic […]
4 Teachings of Jesus That His Followers (Almost) Never Take Seriously
Posted: 12/18/2014 4:51 pm It’s no secret that those of us who claim to follow Jesus Christ consistently fall short of living up to the way of life of our Rabbi. Being a disciple of Jesus is a lifelong journey towards conforming ourselves to the image and way of life that Jesus taught. However, so […]
THE END OF PLANET EARTH: HOW MIGHT IT HAPPEN?
Asteroid strike: 7 ways the world could end As a mountain-sized asteroid is detected heading towards Earth, what is the likeliest ‘extinction-level’ scenario for mankind? Photo: Alamy By Michael Hanlon Our solar system is littered with billions of pieces of debris, from the size of large boulders to objects hundreds of miles across. We know […]
The President and the Astrologer
Joan Quigley, Astrologer to a First Lady, Is Dead at 87 By DOUGLAS MARTIN OCT. 24, 2014 Photo Joan Quigley frequently consulted with Nancy Reagan. CreditEric Risberg/Associated Press In his 1988 memoir, Donald T. Regan, a former chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, revealed what he called the administration’s “most closely guarded secret.†He […]
C S Lewis: 50 years after his death
C S Lewis (1898-1963): two perspectives Today’s C S Lewis Reading (from HarperCollins’ A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003): Screwtape offers a helpful image: Think of your man as a series of concentric circles, his will being the innermost, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy. […]
Income and Wealth Inequality: Religion’s Current Efforts Won’t Cut It
by MYRIAM RENAUD Thursday | Nov 20 2014 The only remaining, major, organized institutions in the US with enough scope and moral authority to launch efforts to reverse this country’s growing income and wealth inequality are the religions. Other institutions have waned; today’s labor unions represent only 7% of private sector employees. Delays matter: as […]
Islam: solution or problem, that is the question (Dr. Mark Durie)
Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:06 PM PST An earlier version of this article appeared in the November 2014 edition of The Melbourne Anglican.A slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood is “Islam is the solutionâ€Â. Dean Philip Jensen recently stated in regard to the Islamic State (ISIS) that “It is time to face the truth that Islam […]
The Year that Changed the World: the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Dancing on the grave of division by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com 1989 was a big year for me, and for the wider world. It was the year I left my teenage years behind. It was also the year that the brutality of government repression in Tiananmen Square rocked the world, U2 came to town and […]
Armenians: 1.5 million slaughtered: plus Assyrians, Jews. Lest we forget…
Have We Forgotten? Gallipoli and the Armenian Genocide Robert Kaplan ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 31 OCT 2014 CAN ONE COMMEMORATE SHARED WAR-TIME EXPERIENCES WITH ENEMY FORCES WHO ACTED AS THE MILITARY ARM OF A STATE CARRYING OUT A TERRIBLE GENOCIDE AT THE SAME TIME?CREDIT: SADIK GULEC / SHUTTERSTOCK A century ago, in a misconceived encounter on the history-soaked precipices […]
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