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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

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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.

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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.

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A Letter from Patricia

Last year I received a hand-written letter from ‘Patricia’, responding to something I had written on changing Ausralia’s marriage laws, in which I argued that society should support the norm of marriage as a couple raising their own biological children.  I enjoyed reading Patricia’s thoughtful

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Dr Mark Durie is an academic, Anglican pastor, Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology.
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