From the BBC, news of the admission by the Australian Roman Catholic Church to more than 600 known cases of child sex abuse since the 1930s. This appalling statistic tells of a culture of abuse which has brought shame upon the Christian communion worldwide and broken a huge amount of trust and good will non-christians … More Australian Catholics admit to culture of abuse
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=cCK3wnGnDZY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcCK3wnGnDZYImam and pastor unite for message of peace, tolerance Geoff Strong October 30, 2008 Finding common ground: Imam Muhammed Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye of Nigeria are in Melbourne. Photo: Simon Schluter IN THIS age of suspicion they seem the oddest of couples: a Muslim imam and Pentecostal Christian pastor, who once wanted to kill each other. … More The Imam and the Pastor
PETER KREEFT Please ask yourself whether you would like others to judge Christianity based on the picture of it now being presented in the modern Western media. Then please remember the Golden Rule, and apply this to the picture of Islam presented by the same source. Full disclosure: I am a Catholic Christian. I … More What Christians Can Learn from Muslims
Here is a thought provoking post from Catalaxy Files which promotes the notion of the need for a Reformation of a current brand of archaic Islamic militant teaching, which is threatening to drag the world kicking and screaming back into the 15th century. Luther helped transform the thinking of the Roman Catholic populace when it dominated … More Islamic Reformation Dream
Worldwide violence during protests purportedly over a second rate video produced by a convicted US felon have illustrated the fervour and hatred produced by minority militant mobs when they are stirred up to agitate. US embassies and consulates were particularly targeted. Several people were killed. Mobs gathered in Sydney and London to protest a day after the … More The protest as a threat…
There has been much uninformed and prejudiced comment on this blog lately about HIV/AIDs and its relationship to homosexual practice. Much of it has been of the nudge-nudge say-no-more variety because I suspect that the commenters would be ashamed to write out exactly what they think. Here is some information from the Men’s sexual health … More HIV/AIDS – A reasoned Evangelical perspective
I’m not sure what to think of this news. China is facing a fertility rate problem. China, which has a strict one-child policy, and a reportedly very high abortion rate, now finds itself with lowering rates of fertility. One province alone has reported a 14% infertility rate amongst over 100 million people, that’s 14 million … More Chinese fertility drop
In view of recent remarks by Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby, where he stated that the figures for gay sex disease transmittal were still as high as those for tobacco smoking illness numbers and should be brought to people’s attention, it is interesting that there is a report which confirms that instances of … More Report: HIV continues to increase amongst gay men
Edison never considered his achievement of inventing the light bulb to be a failure, even though he made 10,000 pre-versions which did not light up. They were steps on the way to success. It only took one. Abraham Lincoln failed at a great many things before becoming what he was really destined for, and actually … More Failing your way to success…
Is it possible to over-assess or wrongly categorise people by listing every possible potential mental illness known to man? In this fascinating video from TED, journalist Jon Ronson talks about his inquisitive journey into an investigation into mental illness, especially what psychologists have termed psychopathic behaviour, and comes to some interesting conclusions about how we … More Journey into a psychopath’s mind…
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