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Monday, 10 August 2020
| Elaine Furniss
I give thanks for my neighbours in adjacent principalities. I love the ingenuity of the kids on the corner who communicate with their neighbour kids at the apex of their elevation on the resident trampoline in each backyard.
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Monday, 3 August 2020
| Oscar Delaney
Dead animals, homeless Bangladeshis and empty stomachs. A poem about storm and drought, flood and fire.
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Thursday, 23 July 2020
| Janet Down
Letter to the editor in response to the Zadok Autumn 2020 issue on climate change, including some thoughts on hope and helpful online resources.
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Friday, 24 April 2020
| Paul Tyson
Christians have not been very creative when it comes to Easter in a time of pandemic. On Anzac Day, however, we are seeing wide scale innovative liturgical alternatives across the nation. Why?
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Monday, 20 April 2020
| John Kidson
After reluctantly going under the knife, the old granny psalm' you never appreciate what you have until it's gone' can become more relevant than ever. A short medical story from pre-COVID times.
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Thursday, 16 April 2020
| Brendan Byrne
The Test is clearly intended as a shame-to-glory documentary. While the humanity and vulnerability of the participants is painfully on display, the opportunity for deeper reflection is never taken up.
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Thursday, 9 April 2020
| Rebecca Forbes
In these extraordinary times, God, give us compassion. Give us prayerfulness.
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Monday, 24 February 2020
| Ian Hore-Lacy
According to Sam Gregg, the genius of Western civilisation is its unique synthesis of reason and faith - the kind expressed in Jewish and Christian faiths and cultures. To the extent that reason and faith have been uncoupled following the Enlightenment, he argues, we have seen the rise of social pathologies inimical to the pursuit of truth.
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Sunday, 26 January 2020
| John Kidson
Peter and Paul’s theological differences, initially quite divisive, were dealt with openly and amicably. Peter the fisherman and Paul the scholar shared in common an abiding confidence in Jesus. How does their example of apostleship and martyrdom challenge us today?
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Wednesday, 22 January 2020
| Karina Kreminski
This book is not about how to do nothing, but an act of ‘political resistance’ against the attention economy. Odell confronts us with who we have become, a disembodied, distracted society moulded by technologies with not so altruistic agendas, and calls us to become something different - a community that is human.
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