Apologetics
The Charter for Compassion
Charter for Compassion The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and […]
‘Insider Killings’ in Afghanistan
Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 AM PDT This article first appeared with Frontpage Magazine. In the past two weeks at least nine Americans have been killed by their Afghan allies in what is known as ‘insider killings’. Members of the Afghan army, having been trained and armed by NATO forces, are turning their weapons in increasing numbers against their […]
Gay Issues: Justice Michael Kirby…
Last night (Anglican) Trinity College Melbourne hosted the 42nd Barry Marshall Lecture with guest speaker, the Hon Michael Kirby AM CMG. Justice Kirby was, before he retired recently, the longest-serving Australian judge. He was introduced with several minutes’ worth of accomplishments (including, I think, 20 honorary doctorates). My review of one of his books is here. […]
Brian McLaren: A New Kind of Christianity [1]
Notes for our Wednesday Koinonia group, September 12, 2012 A New Kind of Christianity: Brian McLaren. Summary of first 125 pages Introduction: Bad news: Christian faith/church is in trouble. (The ‘Way’ of Jesus a club for Pharisees; today people admire Jesus but hate the church). Protestants: lost between modernity and postmodernity. Catholics: torn since Vatican […]
One in spirit’: same-sex unions in the Bible
ALAN AUSTIN “Where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from […]
Iran: Time for the West to take stand…
Alan Howe From:Herald Sun August 20, 2012 12:00AM IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD HAS REPEATEDLY PREDICTED ISRAEL’S DEMISE. PICTURE: AP. AP IRAN’S armpit-scratching president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking in the excitable, florid manner of Arabs from whom he wishes to be differentiated, is a distraction. He may bark about killing all Jews it’s a common theme but in the […]
The Case for Gun Control
Note from Rowland: despite Zakaria’s apology for some plagiarism, this remains a cogent case for gun control… By Fareed Zakaria After the ghastly act of terrorism against a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, Americans are pondering how to stop gun violence. We have decided that it is, in the words of New York Times […]
Australian Politics: Howard Can’t Be Queen’s Man
Godwin Grech this week suggested John Howard should be Australia’s next governor-general Laurie Oakes From:Herald Sun August 18, 2012 12:00AM GODWIN GRECH HAS SUGGESTED THAT JOHN HOWARD SHOULD BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR-GENERAL. PICTURE: GARY RAMAGETHE AUSTRALIAN GODWIN Grech, the former senior bureaucrat at the centre of the so-called Utegate scandal three years ago, struck a chord […]
Why We Need the Language of Hell
In this morning’s devotional reading: ‘Nothing burns in hell except self-will’ (Theologica Germanica). ‘If we live selfishly, not all the angels in the celestial spheres will be able to drag us into heaven.’ Esnath Easwaran, Original Goodness, pp. 150,  175 ~~ Posted: 08/14/2012 12:42 pm by Kevin Miller James Eagan Holmes allegedly slaughters 12 people […]
Australia and Refugees: the Houston Report
by Alan Austin (Reproduced with permission). 15 August, 2012 Could this signal a return to bipartisanship on refugees in Australia? Will Australia now resume pulling its weight in the international community? The Houston report to the Gillard Government on asylum seekers released on Monday has upset virtually all combatants in the current political brawl. But […]
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