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Monday, 1 November 2021
| Ben Thurley
Would extinction be such a bad thing after all? As unlikely as it may sound, the Book of Revelation – with its own apocalyptic and extinction-level imagery – may provide an answer.
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Thursday, 28 October 2021
| Deborah Storie
Is the international military’s departure from Afghanistan a cause for rejoicing or despair? Should we welcome or mourn the return of Taliban governance? The answers depend on whom you ask.
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Thursday, 30 September 2021
| Nils von Kalm
In these days of growing polarisation, the attraction of conspiracy theories is strong and seductive for many, including Christians. How are we as Christians to respond? What is a loving but truthful approach to engaging with people we disagree with?
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Thursday, 30 September 2021
| David Griffin
Conservatives look to the past, progressives to the future. Both visions are rooted in time, both are needed. How does theological history, and especially the Book of Revelation, enable us to resolve this tension?
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Sunday, 29 August 2021
| Yarkov Halik
The drastic Covid-19 ‘public health and safety measures’, with all their catastrophic mental and physical health impacts on society, demonstrate the extent to which, paradoxically, the quest for life at any cost turns out to be lethal.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2021
| Brendan Byrne
Why would a faith worker join a union? The Faith Workers Alliance was formed because, like all other employees, faith workers deserve to be nurtured and appreciated and protected from exploitation.
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Sunday, 27 June 2021
| Irene Alexander
What can Western Christians learn from the majority world church? As we come face to face with people in other cultures – with ‘the Other’ - our idols are exposed and we are invited to deeper knowing of God.
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Thursday, 27 May 2021
| Christopher Brown
Though invisible to the naked eye, Covid-19 spreads around the globe, leaving traces of dislocation, anxiety, suffering and death. But also invisible and spreading around our pandemic-ridden earth are traces left by God.
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Monday, 10 May 2021
| Alison Sampson
Capitalism tells us to be independent: to go it alone, to rely on our merits, to avoid being financially enmeshed - except with the banks, of course. But there is another way - the way of interdependence.
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Sunday, 9 May 2021
| Gordon Preece
Mental illness is not all my mother was. That was her shadow, not her substance or her self, in her own, others’ or God’s eyes.
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