Apologetics
Facial Scrubs wrecking the planet
Plastic microbeads in facial scrubs causing damage to environment Date April 6, 2014 Neil McMahon In a lather: Minute plastic beads from toiletries are making their way into the marine environment. Vanity – and our vulnerability to the power of advertising – are changing consumer habits from breakfast to bedtime, and contributing to an almighty […]
Divorcing? ‘Let’s Celebrate!’
Divorce parties all the rage as decoupling couples follow celebrities’ lead Date: April 06 2014 Angie Fox A few weeks shy of her 40th birthday back in August 2012, Sammie Black received her divorce papers in the mail and literally jumped around with elation. She was so excited, the now 41-year-old communications consultant and mother […]
Justice issues: Australia sometimes chooses to look away
US shows the way Date April 6, 2014 Daniel Flitton Senior Correspondent Australia should join the world leader in championing justice for human rights violations. Illustration: Matt Davidson Back in the days when George W. Bush would cheer on his mate John “Man of Steel” Howard, the chief aide to Australia’s foreign minister kept a […]
Nestles is buying rare clean water in poor countries to sell to the rich
Nestle vs. basic human decency Chip in $1 to stop them Rowland, Imagine being so thirsty that you drink water contaminated with raw sewage. According to the World Health Organization, over a billion people in the developing world lack access to sanitary drinking water, and 2 million people die every year as a result — most […]
Religious Persecution
Age of intolerance: the war on religion Date November 2, 2013 Barney Zwartz Religion editor, The Age. View more articles from Barney Zwartz In Somalia, al-Shabab, which slaughtered scores of people at a Kenyan shopping mall in September, has reportedly vowed to kill every Somali Christian. As Christian villager Asia Bibi languished in a Pakistani jail […]
The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong
Bill McKibben: “The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong.” The following article came to my attention while viewing Bill Moyer’s interview with New York Times conservative columnist, Ross Douthat. http://billmoyers.com/segment/ross-douthat-on-modern-christian-heretics/ *** Excerpt:  “Therein is the paradox. America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.” […]
Science vs the Bible: Reasons Why This Debate Will Never Be Settled
by PETER HAN Thursday | Apr 3 2014 On March 17 (2014), scientists announced new findings consistent with the Big Bang Theory. Gravitational waves dating back to instants after the universe came into being, 13.7 billion years ago, were detected by telescope. Regardless of mounting empirical evidence calling into question the account of creation described […]
A state that entrenches racism – legislating against it?
We shouldn’t look to a state that entrenches racism to legislate against it Some of us who have spent years fighting discrimination also feel uncomfortable with laws which hinder free speech – which is why I cautiously support the government’s move to amend 18C ‘The government has a wilful blindness to the profound power disparity […]
Internet porn worries kids…
Online porn and kids: It worries one in three most Date November 10, 2013 Cosima Marriner Sun-Herald senior writer Almost one in three children say pornography is what bothers them most on the internet, with young children the most likely to be troubled by sexual images online. The online survey found children were most likely […]
Air pollution kills 7 million a year…
The ‘Single Largest Environmental Health Risk’ Is Causing 1 in 8 Deaths Worldwide Steven Hsieh on March 25, 2014 A woman wears a mask as she walks under smog in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) Air pollution killed 7 million people worldwide in 2012, about one-in-eight of all deaths, according to new estimates released Tuesday by the […]
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