Apologetics
Asteroids: can they be mined?
Can James Cameron  Or Anyone  Really Mine Asteroids? By JEFFREY KLUGER Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets. But going to the Super Bowl isn’t enough anymore. For […]
DOES GOD EXIST?
Interesting approach to the nature of God… (There’s a good ‘tack’ here, but beware of promises that ‘if you come to Jesus your problems will be solved’) A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As  the barber began to work, they began to have a […]
America’s Conservative Christians
The Wild Hypocrisy of America’s Conservative Christians In Britain, the devout tend to be economic progressives. Why have American Christians embraced social Darwinism? David Sirota April 20, 2012 | Here’s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: “Christians ‘More Likely to Be Leftwing’ And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality.” Sounds […]
Belief in God strongest in Catholic/Developing Countries
ON 20 APR 2012 SHARE THIS Belief in God is slowly declining in most countries around the world, according to a new poll, but the truest of the true believers can still be found in developing countries and Catholic societies. The “Beliefs about God Across Time and Countries†report, released 18 April by researchers at […]
God’s Care for the Poor
Sightings 4/16/2012 — Martin E. Marty The text for today’s meditation comes from The Wall Street Journal, a quotation provided by a major novelist, whose newest work was being reviewed. The quote, first: “The Lord commands us to ‘do good to all men,’ universally, a great part of whom, estimated according to their own merits, […]
Being Gay, Being Christian (two reviews)
Being Gay, Being Christian is a valuable resource for a broad range of people. In the often volatile, convergence of Christianity and sexuality what is often lacking is sound, rational debate and information. Not only do Christian gay and lesbian people have to sort through the maze of internal struggles, others opinions, prejudices and theology […]
Secular world has a Christian foundation
CHRIS BERG April 15, 2012 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 Christian belief are historically implausible, or that religion is scientifically unsubstantiated, the New […]
Creation… and the Moon
Here’s an extract from Neil Armstrong’s biography First Man. I think that recent discoveries [thanks to the Hubble telescope, etc] have stretched the meaning of a ‘day’. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. Genesis 1:2 And the Earth was without form and void. And darkness was on the face […]
The Bible and Homosexuality – one more time…
John ShoreAuthor, ‘UNFAIR: Why the “Christian” View of Gays Doesn’t Work’ The Best Case for the Bible Not Condemning Homosexuality Posted: 04/ 3/2012 God does not ask us to choose between compassion and faith in the Bible. Christians are increasingly divided over the issue of the acceptance and inclusion of gay persons into the church. […]
Rape Victims: Hebrew/Muslim law
You Broke It, You Buy It: A Divine Mandate By Thom Stark So the news has just broken that a Moroccan girl has committed suicide after being ordered by a judge to marry her rapist. Now before some self-righteous Christians begin mouthing off about how unenlightened Islamic culture is, let’s go to the source: “If […]
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