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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.

Asylum-seekers: treated worse than animals…

By and others ⋅ December 19, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Agony of children treated worse than animals December 19, 2013 Genuine refugees suffer on Nauru as the government works to break their spirits. There are no signs to guide you to Australia’s detention centre on Nauru. You instead have to follow the signs that lead to the island’s ”rubbish dump” and eventually they take you […]

Nelson Mandela’s Melbourne Farewell

By and others ⋅ December 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

(Thanks John Matheson).  First, the singing of “The Internationale” in Melbourne’s St.Patricks** Catholic Cathedral. And now fresh from “The Group Hug” in Melbourne’s St.Paul’s Anglican Cathedral. Can  life get any better? I’m just home from a ‘Service of Memorial & Thanksgiving for the life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’ arranged by Melbourne’s African community, with the participation of […]

Movie Review: The Engaging Intensity of Captain Phillips

By and others ⋅ December 9, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

  This movie surprised me. I didn’t think it would be as good as it was. When I saw what it was about I thought it might be interesting to go and see, but I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to do so. Coming out of the movie, the reason I found myself […]

Q&R Foreword, Introduction, Contents, Chapter One: Good & Evil

By and others ⋅ December 9, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES  FOREWORD  When someone makes an appointment to see me, a ‘generalist’ pastoral counselor, what do we talk about? Short answer: anything at all that’s important for them. Within the first five minutes I invite my parishioner/client to ‘give me a headline or two’. And, then, mostly, we jump into the deep end. […]

Remembering CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley and…oh yeah, JFK

By and others ⋅ November 22, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re after a good trivia question for upcoming Christmas BBQs, try this one: Which two other famous people died on the same day as JFK, 22 November 1963? The answers are CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Most readers will be well aware of CS Lewis, but not as many will be aware of Huxley. The latter […]

Homosexual sibling relationships: a question…

By and others ⋅ November 20, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Received this email recently (some details changed to preserve anonymity):A wonderful collection of articles on your web-site, thank-you. I hope you don’t think I’m being too intrusive, but I feel I have a spiritual battle on my hands.  I am a young adult male in a relationship with a male, but have not consummated the […]

Foul crimes, wilful blindness and evil men

By and others ⋅ November 15, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Date November 14, 2013 Frank McGuire Despite the suffering of victims revealed by the sex abuse inquiry, some men of God still refuse to accept the damage they did. Illustration: John Spooner. Catholic Church backs compensation scheme Jewish care to investigate child sex abuse claims Betrayal of Trust reveals the cover-up that killed. The investigation report […]

State Sanctioned Prayer (on this issue too America leads the world :-(

By and others ⋅ November 14, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | Nov 11 2013 Alex Staroseltsev / Shutterstock Let us pray: “in the name of the one who came, and died, and rose again that we might have eternal life—Jesus Christ our Lord—Amen.” Thus Dr. Robert Jeffress, “pastor of the 11,000 member First Baptist in Dallas, Texas, and daily radio […]

UK arranged marriages: Kidnapping, rape and murder in the name of family honour

By and others ⋅ November 12, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

  By Mary Gearin, Bronwen Reed and Greg Wilesmith for Foreign Correspondent “We have kidnappings, abductions, assaults, sexual offences. Anything that you can imagine could happen, does happen, in the name of honour,” says Nazir Afzal, Crown Prosecutor for the north-west of England. And murder – 10 to 12 cases a year. Yet as the hyper-active, smartly dressed […]

Liberals pick a fight over history wars again

By and others ⋅ November 10, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Date November 7, 2013 Tony Taylor Political meddling with the history curriculum is vandalism that undermines democracy. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. I see a headline like this, “Report backs Rudd’s bias claim” (The Age, November 7) about News Corp’s political tendencies, it reminds me that Donald Rumsfeld was not so daft after all with his mantra […]

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