Apologetics
Vatican Versus American Nuns (Richard Rohr)
Posted on May 10, 2012 We must be honest and admit that there are only two remaining large systems in the world that are totally patriarchal in their style and in their leadership: Communist states and the Roman Catholic Church. Ours never looked quite as bad since we at least used the language of Jesus, […]
Mormonism: Why does Mitt Romney have nothing to say about his faith?
United apostates of America air dirty laundry on Mormon doctrines BY: TONY ALLEN-MILLS, WASHINGTON From: The Times April 17, 2012 THERE have been many attempts over the past decade to change the way that Mormonism is perceived by non-believers, not all of them related to Mitt Romney’s stalwart campaigns to become the first Mormon US […]
Western Civilization’s debt to Religion
The godless delusion April 15, 2012 Western civilisation owes a massive debt to religion and religious thinkers. THE contemporary atheist movement has a scorched earth strategy: chop down Christianity, root and branch. I don’t believe in God either, but this strategy is entirely counterproductive. Not satisfied to point out that elements of the Christian belief […]
Jews like Mormons & Muslims more than the ‘Christian Right’!!!
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 5/14/2012 Jewish Values — Martin E. Marty The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), alongside Gallup and Pew and other polling agencies, scored big this month. Right in the midst of the treated-as-cosmic discussion of “same-sex†marriage, a not-unnoticed media […]
Movie Review – The Lady
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Aung San Suu Kyi has made headlines again recently for her National League for Democracy (NLD) Party in Burma winning seats in Parliament for the first time since they officially won the national elections in 1988 but were unjustly prevented from taking office. This movie is therefore timely, as well […]
Muslims and Evangelicals countering prejudice
Muslims and Evangelicals countering prejudice: A conversation with Marcia Pally and Mustapha Tlili Chantal BaxABC RELIGION AND ETHICS 3 MAY 2012 ONE OF THE OUTCOMES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS TENDENCY TO BLAME RELIGION FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE WORLD. CERTAIN RELIGIONS THEN CAME TO BE PICKED OUT AS “UN-MODERNIZABLE” ONES. […]
Marriage Equality
From Rowland: I’m preparing to write a major article on Marriage Equality for Gays/Lesbians – partly in response to the quote from me used by The Age supporting the idea. Here I’ll put a pot-pourri of material I’m collecting on the subject: ~~ Why I’m treated like a second-class citizen: Justice Michael Kirby May 3, […]
Stuart Edser: Being Gay, Being Christian, You can be both
Stuart Edser: Being Gay, Being Christian, You can be both (Exisle Publishing 2012). [Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG] My journey out of Pharisaism on gay/lesbian issues began in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV studio back in the 1970s. A ‘conservative evangelical’ pastor, I was then Victoria’s spokesperson for The Festival of Light. […]
Scripture and Sexuality (Justice Michael Kirby)
FIVE UNEASY PIECES: Essays on Scripture and Sexuality Introduction by Michael Kirby Foreword by Bill Countryman ~~~ FOREWORD The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG Inconvenient truths: There is no doubt about it. The Christian Churches (and doubtless other religions) have got themselves into a terrible pickle over human sexuality. The source of the mess is the […]
Egypt: An Islamic State?
Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion The University of Chicago Divinity School Sightings 4/26/2012 An Islamic State in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood and the Presidential Elections — Barbara Zollner The battle over Egypt’s democratic future is at a significant crossroads. But while the fight for succession to Mubarak’s throne is fully under […]
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