A whole hour of talk radio was taken up with the rules of Christmas gift-giving. One lady was complaining bitterly that she really puts some thought into finding the right gifts for people but all she gets in return is the usual stuff like perfume that takes only a few minutes to find and purchase. [...]
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One dreary November evening a small group of parents gathered to discuss a new name for Christmas. They had good reason to: the school their children attended had always celebrated Christmas without problems, but the neighbourhood had been changing of late, filling up with members of several religions, none of whom observed Christmas as a [...]
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Why couldn’t a person believe Jesus was born of (or is it ‘from’) a virgin? Look up the word “God” in the Dictionary and one definition given is “having no limits or boundaries.” In other words, God can do what he jolly well pleases, so having Jesus born to (or from) a virgin was a [...]
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Is killing someone always wrong? If I went completely berserk, for instance, and threatened your life with an axe, should you be blamed if you killed me in self-defence? And if an unwanted pregnancy puts a young mother’s life at stake, would it not justify aborting her baby? Or what if “pulling the plug” could put [...]
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War, it seems, is a just reason for killing people, but is it acceptable for Christians to kill people in war? The answer according to Augustine in 430 A.D. is yes. In his famous book, “The City of God,” he wrote that Christians can go to war and kill so long as the cause is [...]
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Should Christians be going to war, to fight and kill? Yes, some Christians say, it’s our civic duty and right to defend family and nation against evil, and what greater sacrifice can one make than giving one’s life for one’s friends? If someone broke into your home with murderous intentions, would you not have the [...]
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“Let us pray,” the minister mumbled into the microphone. Here we go, I thought, another tired old prayer on Remembrance Day. But this prayer was different. “Great Father of us all,” he began, his voice rising, “We, your suffering children, come to you in our embarrassment to say how sorry we are for all the [...]
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