Apologetics
Women: Beasts of burden: we really haven’t come very far, baby
(I may not always agree with Germaine Greer  – but I do here. And I love her feistiness! Rowland Croucher, March 5, 2012). International Women’s Day will be upon us again next Thursday.  A whole day out of the 365 that has been set aside for women. Disabled people, mountains, diabetics, the ozone layer, victims […]
Azaria’s ghost can be heard as you pass the big red rock
Martin Flanagan March 3, 2012 Lindy Chamberlain and her daughter, Azaria, shortly before Azaria’s disappearance. THE treatment of Lindy Chamberlain was the closest I have come to seeing a witch being burned alive. Recently, I read a remark she made when asked about the abducted English child Madeleine McCann, the treatment of whose parents by […]
Evil incarnate
(This story proves the point of M Scott Peck’s thesis in People of the Lie) ~~ Rotten to the core, and now rotting in jail John Silvester March 3, 2012 Photo: Simon Schluter Most creatures have some redeeming features. Killer Bandali Debs, 58, is the exception. THE years have not been kind to Bandali Debs. […]
Beyond Secular vs. Religious: Religious Divides in Support for Same-Sex Marriage
[01.27.2012]In 2011, majorities of most religious groups favored allowing gay and lesbian couple to marry legally, illustrating that the old narrative of battle lines between secular supporters and religious opponents no longer serves as an accurate characterization of the landscape of the same-sex marriage debate. In the general population, 2011 was also the first year […]
Syrian capital is a city changed in a year
By Zeina Karam DAMASCUS: Shops and restaurants close early in Damascus these days, their owners eager to get home before dark, which sometimes brings shootings and other crime. Blast walls and checkpoints ring government buildings to guard against car bombs. Residents struggle with spiraling prices and power outages. In my first visit in nearly a […]
Jews: how are they defined?
Sightings  2/27/2012 What Are the Jews? — Martin E. Marty “What exactly are the Jews?†You’d think “we’d†know after their 350 years in America. “What are the Jews?†You’d think top Jewish scholars would know. You’d think Jews would know. No one is sure. Maybe anti-Semites think they know, but . . . . Top […]
Uganda: anti-gay legislation
Note from Rowland: Those American Evangelicals’ stance/support of anti-gay legislation has reverberated around the world. They’ll have a difficult time facing the Judge… ~~ In Uganda, politicians and newspaper editors advocate killing gay people. But they don’t speak for everyone. â€â€By Mac McClelland January/February 2012 Issue 31 “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, welcome to karaoke. And those of you who […]
9/11: IF YOU WERE THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
In his latest book, A Lever and a Place to Stand, Richard Rohr (p.32) offers this: ‘When I look at the American Christian Churches since 9/11, it seems that church has frequently become one more place for frightened people to hide. It often became a way to give ourselves a quick fix of surety and […]
The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World Feb 6, 2012 From one end of the muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith. We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, […]
Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise
Sightings  2/16/2012 Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise – Terryl Givens Mitt Romney is threatening to disturb the American compromise with Mormonism. Nineteenth-century observers were largely indifferent to the new religion Joseph Smith founded in 1830. Most dismissed his claims about angels and gold plates as just another example of American gullibility. “Had we not seen in […]
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