Apologetics
Questionnaire (Wendell Berry)
Questionnaire (Wendell Berry) 1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of […]
Good cop bad cop
Here comes the bribe! And guess who’s best man? Date: October 6, 2012 John Silvester Crime reporter, The Age Detective Sergeant Nick Goodear, a copper with ‘a bit of dash’ about him. Photo: Justin McManus In the world of policing it is normally the squad detectives who get the top billing. These investigators are the ones […]
America’s Political System: A British Critique
Mitt Romney, left, and Barack Obama. Photo: AFP THIS week’s debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney underscored a core truth about America’s presidential election season: the vast majority of the most consequential policy questions are completely excluded from the process. This fact is squarely at odds with a primary claim made about the two parties […]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: 10 Q&R’s (Bp Gene Robinson)
NOTE: ROUGH DRAFT. NOT (YET) FOR PUBLICATION ELSEWHERE, EXCEPT FOR COPIES SENT TO INDIVIDUALS (I try to summarize the gist of important books, before I review them. I’d appreciate your comments/suggestions. Rowland [email protected] ) ~~ (Summary of responses by Bishop Gene Robinson, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage, Knopf, 2012). Gene Robinson is […]
America’s White Working Class
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings  10/1/2012 The White Working Class — Martin E. Marty Sightings lives week by week. In my other life as an historian for sixty years I have lived by 250 and 500 year chunks of American life. My colleagues and I know […]
First Trio “Married” in The Netherlands
From the desk of Paul Belien on Mon, 2005-09-26 23:08 The Netherlands and Belgium were the first countries to give full marriage rights to homosexuals. In the United States some politicians propose “civil unions†that give homosexual couples the full benefits and responsibilities of marriage. These civil unions differ from marriage only in name. Meanwhile in the […]
The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are
 Review: Jenell Williams Paris: The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are (IVPress, large-print edition, 2011). As a (‘straight’) advocate for my homosexual friends and clients part of my job is to read/discern ‘who’s saying what to whom’ about gender and sexuality issues. Together with the world-wide turmoil […]
Syria: Quo Vadis? (September 26, 2012)
‘No one to hand power to in Syria’ by Michael Jansen | Sep 26, 2012 | 22:35 The citizens of Benghazi who raised the flag of revolt in 2011 are driving Salafist militiamen out of their city as Turkey is funnelling Salafist, jihadist and Al Qaeda fighters into Syria. The post-Qadhafi multiplicity of militias of […]
A Survival Plan for Syria’s Christians
September 25, 2012 By Basem Shabb The Daily Star As civil war engulfs Syria leaving a tragic stalemate, the fate of Christians in the country hangs in the balance. The Vatican and others have addressed the condition of the Christian community in the Arab world, not only in Syria but also in the Levant in […]
PORTRAIT OF A NO HOPE WELFARE BLUDGER
From a friend/prophet: Various churches have had a rich history of involvement & solidarity with residents & workers of Melbourne’s inner urban & industrial areas. The post War years of the ‘ 60s & 70s saw innovative & creative streetwork, mutual empowerment of residents & workers & ministers, ecumenical cooperation & trust, & high rise ‘parishes’ […]
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