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BAHI-DSS.TXT -- 70K, Lengthy abstracts for 32 doctoral dissertations done on the Baha'i Faith and Baha'i topics from 1954 through 1993. ---------- Children of God COG.TXT -- 32K, "Churches - Beware of the 'Children of God' Cult, Newsletter #7, May 17, 1994." From CounterCOG, Box 40242, Pasadena, Ca 91114, USA. Tel. (818) 796-7095. ---------- Mormonism BOMARCH.TXT -- 48K, "A reprint of the pamphlet Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Hal Hougey, gives a insight into how far the Mormon church leaders are willing to go to 'prove' that the Book of Mormon is an archaeologically 'sound' book." ---------- New Age Creation Spirituality Spring 94 -- 104K, Creation Spirituality magazine (Matthew Fox), Spring 1994 (multiple issues available here). ---------- I didn't see anything in the Atheism, Buddhism, Islam, Jehovah's Witness or other sections worth mentioning. Apart from the individual items listed above I did find a small number of files from the JPUSA BBS (Cornerstone and PFO articles). In addition there were perhaps a half-dozen Christian responses to the cults (ACIM, Urantia, JWs and LDS) which appeared to be independent efforts by ex-cultists. RESOURCES It's e-mail celebration time I guess. Gary Bogart sent me the file, "Accessing The Internet By E-Mail," 2nd Edition - August 1994. This 31K guide shows you how -- using only Internet e-mail -- to access ftp, Archie, Gopher, Veronica, Usenet, WAIS, World-Wide Web, Finger, and Whois. It also explains basics beginning with, "What's the Internet?" To get the latest edition, send e-mail to either address below. To: LISTSERV@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (for US/Canada/etc.) Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note: GET INTERNET BY-EMAIL NETTRAIN F=MAIL Or to: MAILBASE@mailbase.ac.uk (for UK/Europe/etc.) Leave Subject blank, and enter only this line in the body of the note: SEND LIS-IIS E-ACCESS-INET.TXT And if you don't have it yet, Gary is part of the team that produces the Not Just Bibles guide to the Internet. The NJB guide is about the best resource list of its kind out there for Christians. If you want one just send an email message to: njb@iclnet93 .iclnet.org and in the body include: "Send NJB." Incidentally, version 1.3 of the NJB Guide just came out. Here are a few highlights from it that have not been mentioned in the BBS-FYI before: MAIL BASED SERVICES Ecunet News (General) [MR] Mail: helper@ecunet.org Desc: Daily posts of news from fifteen denominational news services and from other agencies separate feeds available for PCUSA and United Methodist and Anglican. Heavy volume. Sub: Send a request to the above address. Histec-2 (Formerly Histec-L) Mail: mailserv@baylor.edu Desc: Established for students and scholars to exchange information about the history of Evangelical Christianity (230 subscribers). Note: Logs of HISTEC-L available at 1/hnsource/listserv-lists/histec-l. Includes articles and bibliographies related to the history of Christianity. Sub : To subscribe send the following to the above address: SUB HISTEC-2 YourFirstName YourLastName Paul Harvey's Text Archives Desc: files (large) on chronology (10,000 bce to 640 ce), articles on Jesus Seminar, Josephus, law, lawless and the scripture. Contents: Send INDEX in an email message to the above address WORLD-WIDE-WEB (WWW) SERVERS Countering Biblical Contradictions http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~werdna/ contradictions/contradictions.html Well organized discussion of about 150 apparent Biblical contradictions collected from posts on soc.religion.christian USENET NEWS GROUPS alt.support.ex-cult -- Posts cover cult awareness and information. Something else Gary Bogart found for us: With cult tragedy a regular occurrence in the news, a timely new nonprofit information service has been created by FACTNet. F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network) is a nonprofit educational organization that has collected the largest amount of computerized material on cults and coercive mind control in the world. This information is made it available to the public through its computer bulletin board (BBS) and various Internet services. You can obtain library documents by calling FACTNet's electronic library direct at 1-303-530-1942. Our internet mail address is factnet@rmii.com. If you have access to the World Wide Web on the internet, the address of our web home page is http://www.acmeweb.com/factnet. If someone you know needs this information but doesn't have a computer and modem, have them write for our library catalog index and our list of mail, fax, and other administrative services at FACTNet, Inc., 601 16th. St. C-217, Golden, Co. 80401, USA, voice phone 1-303-473-0111, fax 1-303-530-2950. LOOPING MACROS Had to pass this along from the November 1994 First Things, p. 68: "'Matthew Fox, the lapsed Catholic priest, says he has made his dog, Tristan, his spiritual director because the animal 'enters into ecstasy without guilt.'" -- from Paul Carden. ------------ The BBS-FYI is an in-house publication of the Christian Research Instutute Compiled and reported by Rich Poll richpoll@iclnet93.iclnet.org <-- preferred RichPoll@aol.com 72642.2555@compuserve.com (Having posted my eaddresses, please understand that I can not always respond to all who write. I often get plenty more e-mail than I can manage. These are my private accounts, not CRI's. CRI still has no official e-mail address. Presently I can't predict when it will.) Please refer all CRI-related questions to the main office. ------------- (A special note of thanks to Bob and Pat Hunter for their help in the preparation of this ASCII file for BBS circulation.) 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