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More on the Marriage ‘Plebiscite’

In a previous post I offered some thoughts on the plebiscite to change the definition of marriage in Australia’s Marriage Act.   Here are some more reflections in the light of responses received to that post. Anyone who speaks up in favour of retaining the current

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The Postal Vote and Marriage

It seems Australia is making its way to a postal vote on whether we should change our marriage laws to remove reference to gender, i.e. to make same-sex marriage lawful. Whatever the outcome of the postal vote, the parliament will still have to decide, and

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Transformed Marriages – On Ephesians 5: 21-23

These notes are from sermon given at Oaktree Anglican on 18 June 2017.  See the ‘Chosen for Glory’ sermon series here for the audio. The issue of equality between men and women, both inside and outside marriage, it one of the more challenging and significant

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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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