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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.

The Global Ambition of Rick Warren

By David Van Biema Thursday, Aug. 07, 2008 Rick Warren has Rick Warren syndrome. That’s not a joke. He has a brain disorder. “I was born with it,” he says. “I went to the Mayo Clinic, and the doctors said, ‘We have found a dozen or so other people with this. There’s no name, so […]

Barack Obama’s Victory Speech

From Rowland: This is one of the most inspirational speeches I’ve ever heard. Listen to it here: http://victoriaconcordiacrescit.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obamas- victory-speech.html (or http://tinyurl.com/5vkdge ) ***** November 5th, 2008 CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White House Tuesday night. The following […]

Vale David Scholer

Bible scholar advocated women in ministry, turned battle with cancer into testament of faith By Elaine Woo August 28, 2008 David M. Scholer, a popular Fuller Theological Seminary professor and articulate advocate for women in the ministry who inspired others by showing them how to live with incurable cancer, died Friday at his Pasadena home. […]

F W Boreham: A Profile

Hi Boreham-lovers STOP PRESS: October 2014: I am no longer trading in Borehams, but I do have some duplicate volumes of his books (no booklets at present) – [email protected] Best to put a notification request into ABE books or Alibris… ~~ The Rev Dr F W Boreham OBE: A Profile By the Rev T. Howard […]

Paulo Freire

The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. … Freire quickly gained international recognition for his experiences in literacy training in Northeastern Brazil. …. Freire’s most well known work is Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970). Throughout this and subsequent books, he argues for system of education […]

Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English writer and scholar, born at Oxford in 1893, the only child of an Anglican clergyman. She studied medieval literature at Oxford (Somerville College), being one of the first women to graduate (1915) from that university. Her first published writings were two volumes of verse, 1916 Op. 1 1919 Catholic […]

Cliff Richard’s

From The Times September 5, 2008 Sir Cliff Richard reveals details of his ‘close friendship’ with former priest Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent His hits may no longer fill the airwaves and prime ministers may no longer flock to his villa in Barbados, but Sir Cliff Richard proved yesterday that he still has the capacity to […]

Why Kevin Rudd believes in God

August 29, 2008 09:35am PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says the ordered nature of the cosmos convinces him of the existence of God. Mr Rudd, a regularly practicing Anglican, was today asked on Fairfax Radio in Brisbane to give his single biggest argument in favour of the existence of God. “As you know I’m a believer […]

Billy Graham

From a friend: Hello fellow travellers I have sent you this so that you can spend an inspiring 26 minutes listening (and watching) Billy Graham speak to a conference of some of the brightest minds in the Western world. I get “Ted Talks” for free and often there are some amazing talks – by all […]

Fathers and Daughters

THE IMPORTANCE OF A FATHER’S LOVE IN THEIR DAUGHTER’S HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT Next week is Fathers Day. Today we feature an article in the important role fathers play in the development of their daughters personality, values and behaviour.At a time when the possibility of creating babies without men is no longer solely in the realm of […]