Apologetics
Middle East Chaos: a Scary Lesson in Geopolitics, History & Geography
Mid-East’s painted borders begin to blur Date June 21, 2014 Paul McGeough Chief foreign correspondent On parade: A volunteer in the “Peace Brigades” in the southern holy Shiite city of Najaf. Photo: AP Washington: Was it ironic, or simply macabre, that former US vice-president Dick Cheney put his head above the parapet this week, to observe of […]
Memo to Australia’s Treasurer: your Government’s budget IS unfair
No, Mr Hockey, it remains unfair Date June 16, 2014 Editorial Treasurer Joe Hockey’s defence of the Abbott government’s budget does not pass muster with us. Mr Hockey says it is ”misguided” to believe the government’s budget initiatives were unfair or that they exacerbated inequality. While we agree with Mr Hockey’s contention that there are […]
The Girl Who Loves Sharks
Shark Girl gives Jaws a makeover Date June 11, 2014 Ben Pobjie An interesting statistic: every year sharks kill five people around the world. In the same time, hippos kill 3000, yet the number of movies about coastal communities terrorised by lethal killer hippos is vanishingly small. The fear of sharks embedded in our consciousness […]
Clergy as professional revolutionaries
by George Clifford Recently, I read Edward Dreyer’s history of wars in China during the first half of the twentieth century, China at War: 1901-1949 (London: Longman, 1995). Unless you have a particular interest in, and background knowledge of, those wars I do not recommend that you make the effort to read this specialist volume. What drew […]
Mavericks in the Church (may their tribe increase!).
IS THERE ROOM FOR MAVERICKS IN THE CHURCH? I came across an article the other day with this title [1]. It began with an IBM ad: ‘Dreams, heretics, mavericks, and geniuses. The story goes thatHenry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to evaluate his company. After afew weeks, he reported favorably except for one thing: […]
Saddam’s two (evil) sons: warning – you could feel very sick after reading this…
The Sum of Two Evils By Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf I TIME: Baghdad Sunday, May 25, 2003 After months of recovering from an attempt on his life that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in […]
Thomas Piketty: The super-rich and the rest of us
The super-rich and the rest of us: author Thomas Piketty Mark Colvin reported this story on Thursday, June 12, 2014 18:26:00 MARK COLVIN: In an Essential Media opinion poll published this week, Australians were asked to compare fairness and equality in the country to the situation 20 years ago. Forty three per cent said they thought Australia […]
C.S. Lewis: The Problem of Pain
JACEK BACZ The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God  “the problem of pain”  is a fundamental theological dilemma, and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion. C.S. Lewis 1898-1963 Known to his readers as a philosopher, a Christian apologist, a science fiction writer, an […]
The Koran and Child Marriage
Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Today a report appeared in The Australian, a national daily newspaper, which discussed forced marriages in our nation. There were many good points made in this article, which was entitled It is the young flesh they want.However the article reported, as if it were true, a completely false and easily disprovable statement about the Koran. […]
Conservative Christians and political discourse
Where Did the Christians Go? Conservative Complicity after Budget 2014 Brad ChilcottABC RELIGION AND ETHICS12 JUN 2014 A budget is a moral document, and reflects the values of its designers. But morality – as they say – is in the eye of the beholder and values always exist in a hierarchy, with some values being valued more […]
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