By Rod Benson This arrived in my email this morning: Washington (BWA) — Zaur Balaev, pastor of a Baptist house church in the town of Aliabad in the northwestern region of Zakatala in Azerbaijan, was warned that he does not have the right to gather church members for worship, as the church is not registered. [...]
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Baptist pastor threatened by police
Posted: May 21, 2010 by rodbenson in Baptists, human rights, persecution, religious freedom1
The Westminster Declaration
Posted: May 7, 2010 by rodbenson in ethics, human rights, politics and faith, religious freedomBy Rod Benson The Catholic Church has its papal encyclicals, and Protestants – especially the evangelicals among them – have their declarations. “Westminster 2010” is a declaration of Christian beliefs about life, marriage and conscience, written by Christian leaders in the United Kingdom, seeking to encourage debate in the lead-up to last Thursday’s British general [...]
By Rod Benson As a child, I lived for six years in the tropics, where the cane toad was almost as common as the Aussie blow fly. I never expected to hear of cane toads colonising Sydney. But that’s exactly what they’re doing, at Taren Point in Sutherland Shire, and no doubt in other locations. [...]
By Rod Benson Chances are you’ve heard of Noah’s Ark, the large boat built to rescue the world’s animals from a catastrophic flood several thousand years ago. You can read about it in the early chapters of Genesis, in the Bible. Well, now a team of evangelical explorers claim to have recovered wood specimens from a [...]
When someone claims to be a Christian, and attends church every Sunday, and identifies climate change as “the greatest moral challenge of our time,” and then backs away from policies to address the issue, questions arise about their moral compass. Just last week the Prime Minister assured us that climate change remained on his government’s [...]
