Apologetics
From a Christian scholar-of-Islam: Challenging Worldview Clichés
Challenging Worldview Clichés Posted: 16 Apr 2013 Over the past decade I have had the opportunity to speak to thousands of people about Islam across five continents. At question time, the same issues keep coming up. The questions which have stayed in my mind are all about world view assumptions. These are key ideas […]
Homosexual ‘cure’ is hell for many
1. When faith and sexuality collide Date April 14, 2013 Jill Stark Senior writer for The Sunday Age Damien Christie (left) and David Lograsso. Photo: Craig Sillitoe Right to the end, Damien Christie feared that the God he worshipped did not love him back. Rejected by his Pentecostal church for his sexuality, he underwent gay ”conversion” […]
Same-Sex Marriage (Pat Brittenden, New Zealand)
An open letter to the Church in NZ on Same-Sex Marriage April 13, 2013 By Pat Brittenden 6 Comments Dear fellow Church members, This is an open letter about the Same-Sex Marriage debate to the Christians of New Zealand. I have been a supporter of Marriage Equality for the LGBTI community in New Zealand for several years. To […]
Paradigm Shifts: where the church has got it wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-zI9gydwk&feature=youtu.be
Jim Wallis: Politics, Gay Marriage and Immigration
Jim Wallis Talks Faith’s Role In Politics, Gay Marriage And Immigration Posted: 04/05/2013 7:59 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/06/2013 NEW YORK — A little over a year ago, during some of the most heated moments of the presidential election, the Rev. Jim Wallis went on a three-month sabbatical. The president and founder of Sojourners magazine and the progressive Christian […]
Islam: a German’s (Psychiatrist’s) View
The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist: a man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates.   When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism: ‘Very few people […]
Marriage Equality (Keith Mascord)
April 2, 2013 How The Unthinkable Might Become Thinkable For many Christians, the idea that they might ever support same-sex marriage seems unthinkable. The chasm over which they would need to jump appears too wide; the beliefs they would need to jettison too important, the fear they might fall into an irreversible moral relativism too […]
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East
In the Middle East, not America, Christians are actually persecuted Jonathan Merritt | Apr 3, 2013 Christians search for belongings after more than 100 homes were torched in Lahore, Pakistan. (ARIF ALI) American Christians have a persecution complex. Whenever a public figure criticizes the Christian movement or offers believers in other faiths an equal voice in society, […]
Marriage Equality (Alan Austin)
1. Those kinky Hebrews: marriage in the Judeo-Christian scriptures 20 June 2012 When you have a ménage a trois, they must not include a woman and her daughter. “That is wickedness,†says the Lord. And when a man sells his daughter to another man, he must refund the money if the buyer finds the sex unsatisfactory. Just two […]
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND Just found this in my files: some ideas might be expressed a little differently after six years… Rowland. Here’s an expanded version of a talk I gave – with two other members – to our small group. It’s a meandering chat, I haven’t put much order into it, and it’s […]
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