Apologetics
10 killer facts: the global weapons trade
13 March 2012, 11:08AM Every day, thousands of people are killed, injured or forced to flee from their homes as a result of violence and conflict involving weapons. The sobering statistics demonstrate why we need strong global regulations to prevent the world’s weapons falling into the wrong hands. 1. 1,500 people are killed every day […]
Legalise same-sex marriage but also permit religious freedom
ON 15 MAR 2012 Australian Marriage Equality has welcomed a letter sent by a group of multi-faith clergy to all 150 members of the House of Representatives in support of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage while permitting religious freedom. The bill, introduced by Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, is set to be debated in the […]
MIDDLE EAST: ISLAMIC POWER BLOCS TO TRAMPLE MINORITIES
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 151 | Wed 21 Mar 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal The Middle East is undergoing a massive upheaval wherein Islamist powers are struggling for regional and Islamic supremacy. According to terrorism analyst Yossef Bodansky, the ‘buffer’ that prevents the Islamic blocs from ‘fratricidal violence’ is the ‘Fertile Crescent of Minorities’ […]
The making of a modern soldier
Giles Fraser March 17, 2012 Can the psychological conditioning of soldiers explain the massacre of 16 civilians by a lone US soldier in Afghanistan? Photo: Tanya Lake IN 1947, the official US historian of the Second World War, Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, published Men Against Fire. Marshall’s astonishing contention, debated vigorously ever since, was that about 75 […]
Gay & Lesbian friends: How to Relate to an Imperfect church
HOW TO RELATE TO AN IMPERFECT CHURCH (Notes of a talk to the Melbourne chapter of Freedom2B – 16 March 2012) BUT FIRST: †I’m ignorant about many things – I’m a ‘practising heterosexual’ (52 years 2 months), not a scientist, psychologist, anthropologist, biblical scholar, Catholic/Eastern Orthodox… †I do know a little bit about […]
Little Mosque on the Prairie
Sightings 3/15/2012 Believing, Belonging, and Laughing in Little Mosque on the Prairie — Lauren E. Osborne The Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie is running its sixth and final season. The show first aired on the CBC (Canada’s national broadcasting network) in 2007, drawing record numbers of viewers for a […]
LAOS: CHRISTIANS THREATENED — RECANT OR LEAVE
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 150 | Wed 14 Mar 2012 By Elizabeth Kendal Laos is a Communist-ruled South-east Asian state known for its abysmal human rights record, particularly its appalling prison conditions and systematic use of torture. Christians in this poor, landlocked nation face intensive persecution. Generally the religious persecution occurs outside the […]
THREE GAYS CONFRONT AN UNJUST CHURCH
Michael Bernard Kelly,  Seduced by Grace: Contemporary Spirituality, Gay experience and Christian faith (2007);  Michael Kirby, A Private Life: fragments, memories, friends (2011); Mychal Judge http://saintmychaljudge.blogspot.com.au/ (accessed 9 March 2012).  These three Michaels – professional gay men with integrity – incarnate different ways of relating to their legalistic/unjust churches. Justice Michael Kirby is an […]
Atheism and Morality
(An abbreviated version of this was published in The Age, Melbourne, 23 February 2012)Louise Phillips (Letters, 22/2) does Alain de Botton an injustice by accusing him of perpetuating the myth that atheism is a religion. On the contrary, de Botton (The Age, 21/2) has highlighted some of the desirable features that atheism lacks precisely because it’s not a […]
Desecrating Christian and Jewish Graves in Libya
Posted: 05 Mar 2012 06:26 AM PST Many commentators have expressed outrage at the recent destruction of British and Canadian war graves in Benghazi, Libya (in this YouTube Video). I watched the video and saw, not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses. The radical Muslims who are kicking over and smashing headstones marked with […]
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