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The lady or the tiger? by Greg Swann Today, as a special treat, Islam offers us a choice. We can have the lady, King Abdullah II of Jordan writing in the Washington Post. Today Muslims must speak out boldly in defense of a dynamic, moderate Islam -- an Islam that upholds the sanctity of human life, reaches out to the oppressed, respects men and women alike, and insists on the fellowship of all humankind. This is the true Islam of the Prophet, and the Islam that terrorists seek to destroy. Or we can have the tiger in the form of Saudi Sheikh...

IIIM Magazine Online,Volume 4, Number 22, June 3 to June 9, 2002 SPOUSAL ABUSE: GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE? by Prof. John M. Frame The traditional Reformed view of divorce is well expressed in Murray’s Divorce and Adams’ Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage, and nothing much more about that need be said. On this view, there are two grounds for divorce: one is sexual uncleanness, which includes adultery, but also the other sexual sins covered by the term porneia: homosexuality, bestiality, prostitution, etc. The other ground is desertion of a believing by an unbelieving spouse. Of course when a professing believer deserts...