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The Difference between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists sets out John Stott’s thinking and is by Roger Steer. It comes as a David Virtue VOL Exclusive www.virtueonline.org of November 13, 2009.  To whet your appetite: Over a period of a few months during 1998, John [Stott] wrote his Evangelical Truth: a personal plea for unity. ‘As I approach the [...]

 In today’s edition of The Mercury (November 16, 2009) , Revd Eric Cave submitted a letter for the “Your Voice” section in reponse to the current hot topic of Voluntary Euthanasia. Thank you Eric for your faithful witness in writing this letter. This is what Eric wrote: Prayer power  PETER Ford (Letters, November 11), I see [...]

Mark Durie gives an analysis of accused Fort Hood killer Major Nidal M. Hasan’s own powerpoint presentation on Islam. The presentation is itself worth a look, as is Mark Durie’s comment on its islamic teaching. The slides are true to mainline (Sunni) Islam and Durie comments on the slides as demonstrating the emphasis given by Major Hasan to the enormous dilemma for [...]

Joe Hockey, Opposition Shadow Treasurer in the Australian Parliament, made a very interesting speech In Defence of God on 9 November to the Sydney Institute. His key theme: What we as a society must not do is allow our secularity to be a reason for ignoring those who are truly inspirational just because they are people of faith. . [...]

 At the Annual Meeting of SPCKA, a Christian literature mission, held in Melbourne this week I was greatly encouraged to see and touch – there is something for us bibliophiles in the magic of holding a book in our hands, a moment of near ecstacy when the book being held is the Bible in two of the [...]

The GFC: A Crisis of Credit and Faith?  by Professor Ian Harper is a ’2009 Smith Lecture’.  “The Global Financial Crisis is in essence a crisis of trust. How can trust be re-built if not on a foundation of faith, credit, and belief?” This ’2009 Smith Lecture’ is now available on line as a pdf [...]

A webpage has been set up, by the National School Chaplaincy Association, to support those who are lobbying the School Chaplaincy funding threat. By entering the site and typing in your postcode you will have access to an email template. Once filled in, an email will be forwarded on your behalf to the Federal Member [...]

At our recent Tasmanian Clergy Conference (4 – 6 November  2009), our guest speaker Bishop Paul Barnett presented excellent “Studies in First Peter” and also his notes on Sermon Preparation. I have his permission to share them with you. Firstly, his introductory comment on Christian ministry: Christian Ministry Paul to Timothy (in times of hardship for [...]

Pioneering Report on Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Egyptian  … WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Disappearance, Forced Conversions and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt – a pioneering report on human trafficking-was released today by Christian Solidarity International (CSI) and the Coptic Foundation for Human Rights. Researched in Egypt by [...]

“The fall of the Berlin Wall is an appeal – an appeal to all to vanquish oppression, to knock down the walls that throughout the wall still divide towns, territories, peoples, ” President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. The spectacular sequence of the falling dominoes tugged at my heart at the joy of  the freedom attained [...]