Apologetics
Heroes: why they are so incredibly important…
Refusing Resignation: Moral Heroes in an Age of Victims Susan NeimanABC RELIGION AND ETHICS13 JUN 2014 IN A TIME OBSESSED WITH VICTIMS, MORAL HEROES EXEMPLIFY HOW TO LIVE IN THE WORLD INSTEAD OF JUST EXISTING IN IT, AND REMIND US THAT LIFE IS LARGER THAN THE DIMENSIONS WE ARE URGED TO ACCEPT. Why should we think about […]
Pakistan: another woman (aged 25, married, pregnant) murdered
Sitting with Farzana: Would She See What We See? by AYESHA S. CHAUDHRY,  Assistant Professor of Gender and Islamic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Thursday | June 12 2014 On May 27, 2014, another woman was murdered in Pakistan. Her name was Farzana, she was 25 years old, married, and pregnant. She was killed by […]
TIME: Gay Christians
10 Reasons God Loves Gay Christians TIME  OPINION  RELIGION 10 Reasons God Loves Gay Christians When I started writing my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage in the church have long used the Bible to defend their point of view. As a gay Christian from […]
‘Switch off Life Support’? He could hear every word…
Dead to the world Date June 7, 2014 Richard Marsh and Jeff Hudson “Limb by limb – block by block – the lights went out”: Richard Marsh. Photo: Winni Wintermeyer When Californian fitness fanatic Richard Marsh suffered a severe stroke, his doctors urged his wife, Lili, to consider switching off his life support. Unbeknown to them, […]
One Gay Man’s Painful Story…
by Jane Wheatley “I’d lived two lives for so long”: John Browne. Photo: Jeremy Young/News Syndication/Headpress John Browne was such a success in the cut-throat corporate world he rose to become a lord. But he was living a lie that was eventually exposed. Now openly gay, he talks to Jane Wheatley about the pressure that kept […]
Dairy Products: Major Cause of Cancer?
Will giving up dairy defeat cancer? Date: June 06 2014 Cherrill Hicks A leading scientist and cancer survivor says the disease is overwhelmingly linked to animal products and we need to give them up. In 1993, the breast cancer that had plagued Jane Plant since 1987 returned for the fifth time. It came in the […]
We Are Our Brains? (D.F. Swaab)
I’ve been reading about the eminent Dutch neuroscientist, D. F Swaab. Like this: So much can go wrong with our brains that, after reading D.F. Swaab’s book, one can’t help but be amazed that anything ever goes right. In “We Are Our Brains,’’ the Dutch neuroscientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam, illustrates some […]
Capitalism in Question: Thomas Piketty and the Crisis of Inequality
John Milbank and Adrian PabstABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 6 JUN 2014 OUR “EXTREMIST MERITOCRACY” HAS BECOME A KIND OF HOLLYWOOD STAR-CULT: THOSE WITH EXTREME ABILITY ARE REWARDED WITH EXTREMELY MUCH. BUT OUR VAST DISPARITIES OF INCOME CANNOT BE CORRELATED WITH MERIT.CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM SEE ALSO Related Story: Education into Virtue: Against the Tyranny of Modern Mass EducationJOHN MILBANK 9 MAY 2014 Related Story: Thatcher’s […]
Shut your windows, lock your doors, and disaster will fall from the sky (killer asteroids)
Time, June 9, 2014, pp. 32ff. An article about Don Yeomans – an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The dinosaurs are dead, thanks to a 10-km asteroid that crashed off the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago… It’s the same kind of event that flattened 2150 sq km of trees across […]
Time to Stand Up: Reflections on the Federal Budget
Monday, 2 June 2014  | Brett Parris By now you may have read some of the analysis of the federal Coalition government’s recent budget(e.g. here, here and here), or its Commission of Audit (e.g. here, here, here or here), which was released prior to the budget in an attempt to frame our economic challenges as a ‘budget emergency’. Australia has had tough budgets before, but five factors […]
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