RU486 is in the news lately, as the Federal government determines as to whether it should be made freely available to the general public. It takes its name from the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf, which was licensed to sell it, after some pressure from the French government, in 1988. Since …
The vicious riots that began at Cronulla beach on Sunday 11 December spilled over into payback outbursts of violence in and Sans Souci the next night, and continued to splutter and fizz for the next few days. We were all confronted with some ugly scenes. Both sides – mainly drunken …
To the venerable Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales.
Whereas:
1. The inerrant Word of God recognises men and women as equal in creation and redemption in Jesus Christ (Gen.1:26-27; Gal.3:28);
2. Women played a recognised and crucial role in supporting the …
Peter Barnes | Bible Study | Download : Bible Studies – Job
The problem of how one God can exist who is sovereign, good, and loving has long been recognised as one of the most difficult ones for the Christian faith to explain. The ancient Latin poet Lucretius wrote:
Had …
Peter Barnes | Bible Study | Download : Bible Studies – James
The epistle of James is not dated. Some date it fairly late, and see it as a
correction of those who misunderstood Paul’s emphasis on free grace to be a
denial of the need for works. But Paul …
A news report the other day told of how some sniffer dogs – the kind that are used at airports to detect drugs – had accidentally been trained to detect talcum powder and not cocaine. Apparently, during the training of the dogs, the trainers had unwittingly been using the wrong …
Introduction
Dan Brown’s ‘historical’ novel The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003, and has been at the top of the best-seller lists ever since. A year after its publication, it had sold almost six million hardback copies. The movie is on the way, directed by Ron Howard. The book …
Peter Barnes | Exodus 36 …
