11 Jul, 2020 Loving Your Neighbour in Coronavirus Times (video)
The Bible’s radical call to love others and living it out in a pandemic....
20 Jul, 2019 Christians in Politics? (Video)
Why should Christians get involved in politics? Is it Christian to be left, or to be right? Progressive or Conservative? What is a biblical worldview for understanding politics? How should faith intersect with political office, or with expressing political views? What attitude should Christians take...
07 Jun, 2019 The Pentecostals are Coming
Whether we like it or not, Pentecostalism is going to become increasingly influential in Australia in the coming decades. How will the Anglican Church respond?...
01 Apr, 2019 The Christchurch Killer’s Anti-Humanist Ideology
05 Dec, 2018 Religion and Anti-Discrimination Laws: What’s It all About?
At the present time Federal Parliament is debating whether to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act which allow religious educational bodies to discriminate if they are acting in accordance with their religious beliefs. ...
09 Apr, 2018 Were the ‘Dark Ages’ Really Dark?
Today just about anything and everything may be objected to as ‘sending us back to the Dark Ages’, including restrictions on subsidies for renewal energies, growth in faith schools, acts of terrorism, destruction of art works, the popularity of right-wing parties in Europe, the rise of superbugs, and denial of global warming. The Dark Ages have become proverbial.
24 Mar, 2018 Who Are We?
I read a thought-provoking post this week by Orthodox Jewish savant and author, David Goldman. He was commenting on the death of a pedestrian, run over by an automated Uber self-driving car....
07 Feb, 2018 Theology and Church Viability
It is a cliché of our times that churches are declining. Dwindling membership is a fact of life for many congregations. But not for all churches. Certainly not outside the West, where Christianity is rising in many nations....