Sat March 31, 2007
By David Miers.
Part 1 here
JESUS. The most mocked man in all of history. If you mock someone who is homosexual you will have stones throne at you from every direction. Last year a cartoonist in Denmark mocked Mohammad with a drawing in a local newspaper—the result: the death of a number of people in retaliation attacks.
Yet Jesus is mocked every day. Society doesn’t care less. Each week there would be a “funny†cartoon mocking a Christian or mocking Jesus in a paper somewhere around Australia. Read the rest of this entry »
By Jackson Stace
I don’t like Easter Eggs. I was the child at home who didn’t actually eat my Easter day loot but rather stored each egg like a trophy up on a shelf in my room, tempting every member of my household to eat until so many months had gone by that when opened, the chocolate had turned a stark white. This all isn’t really that surprising because I don’t really like chocolate. But I particularly don’t like Easter eggs, and I’ll tell you why. Read the rest of this entry »
Thu March 29, 2007
By Dan Godden.
I had never been to a real overseas country. I’ve been to New Zealand but that doesn’t really count. What I mean is that I have never been somewhere where you can’t just take your own money and pass it off as local currency. In January of this year though, I went to India with my Father-in-law. He likes to think of himself as a middle-aged Indiana Jones, trekking the nations in search of new experiences and cultures. He wanted to show me a part of the world that I had never been to before so off we went to India. There are lots of benefits to travelling to another part of the world. One of them is the insight and perspective that it gives you into your own culture. Another is the way that it helps you to put a face to that place on the World around us and Getaway. A third benefit is the way that it gives you a greater sense of what it means to be human. It gives you a glimpse of global humanity in a way that you may not have had otherwise. India is a place filled with People, who live in overwhelming Poverty, who are obsessed with Religion.
So when I was asked to write a J-walk article about India, I thought I would look particularly at these three areas: People in India, Poverty in India; and Religion in India. Read the rest of this entry »
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