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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Jerry Falwell

Copied below is a personal essay by Debbie Caldwell, Managing Editor for Beliefnet.com about a meaningful encounter she had with Jerry Falwell. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/218/story_21856_1.html Jerry Falwell and Me I was still angry at how his followers had divided my hometown. Yet when I finally met him, I couldn’t resist liking him. By Deborah Caldwell In the […]

Jerry Falwell (a response from Gay Christians)

A Joint Public Statement on the Occasion of the Death of The Rev. Jerry Falwell Rev. Elder Nancy L. Wilson Moderator, Metropolitan Community Churches and Rev. Elder Troy D. Perry Founder and Moderator Emeritus, Metropolitan Community Churches _______________________________________________________________ EDITOR’S NOTE: MCC’s Rev. Nancy Wilson once debated Rev. Jerry Falwell on the national (U.S.) late-night “Ron […]

Jerry Falwell dies

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Jerry Falwell’s Legacy Usually words about those recently passed are whitewashed to extol every virtue and ignore every vice, but Jerry Falwell’s position and life demand as honest an examination as possible. Three Sundays ago Jerry Falwell stood up in from of Thomas Road Baptist Church and gave a sermon entitled, […]

F W Boreham – Public Theologian

*F. W. Boreham: The Public Theologian*** *© Geoff Pound * /Geoff Pound is Principal of Whitley College, The Baptist College of Victoria and secretary of the BWA Heritage and Identity Commission. A former New Zealander, he is also Director of Leadership Training for the Baptist Union of Victoria./ *My Interest* I came to be interested […]

John Claypool

Note from Rowland: John Claypool has, for a couple of decades, been my favorite preacher. You’ll note that several of his sermons are on this website. I’ve only learned today from a clergy-friend that he died nearly two years ago. Watch my blog on Interesting People for my own tribute to this great preacher (http://1monthtomeet30interestingpeople.blogspot.com/ ) […]

Cho Seung-Hui

by Thomas Scarborough Cho Seung-Hui was pictured large on the second page of our local newspaper in Cape Town, holding a gun to his head. I summed it up for myself: Another tragic massacre in the USA. Little did I expect that the story would relate to me in a personal way. I am registered […]

Interview with John Stott

John Stott reflects on where we’ve been and where we’re going. Interview by Tim Stafford | posted 10/13/2006 09:10AM In 2004, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that if evangelicals chose a pope, they would likely select John Stott. Stott, 85, has been at the heart of evangelical renewal in the U.K. His books […]

A Study in Word and Deed: eulogy for Sir Alan Walker

A Study in Word and Deed. A Eulogy at Rev. Sir Alan Walker’s Thanksgiving Service, Wesley Centre, Sydney, February 11, 2003. By Harold Henderson Pastor First United Methodist Church Reddick, Florida, USA. Friends; we are here today to thank God as we celebrate the life of Alan Edgar Walker – a life which has touched […]

Evel Revival

Evel Overcome With Good Daredevil Knievel’s testimony triggers mass baptisms at Crystal Cathedral. Brad A. Greenberg April 13, 2007 On Palm Sunday, hundreds responded to Robert “Evel” Knievel’s testimony by asking to be baptized on the spot at Crystal Cathedral. Speaking alongside the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, Knievel told the congregation in Orange County, California, […]

Frank W. Boreham: The Man And The Writer

*DR. FRANK W. BOREHAM: THE MAN AND THE WRITER* *A Biographical Essay by Rev. Dr. C. Irving Benson* Here was a man for whom life never lost the halo of wonder—that is the abiding impression of my long friendship with Frank Boreham. What a relish he had for living and how vastly he enjoyed being […]