How would you respond if you were to hear that this generation of Western Christians is the generation called to take the collective medicine of the sins of the past sixty years? The chastened generation called to tone down its voice, and tip-toe around sotte voce before handing on the baton to the next generation? Could you do that? Wander around in the desert outside the Promised Land, rather than rushing up against Jericho having been told “No!”?

‘The city is everywhere.’ However, there has perhaps never been a time in human history when we have more needed to think clearly about the city: about what it is; about how we live in it; and about what it could be.

With so many women studying theology, we might assume a similar percentage of women are employed in teaching positions in theological schools. This, however, is not the case.

One of the issues that has been relatively neglected in all the commentary about baby Gammy and commercial surrogacy is the implied assumption that while to abandon a Down Syndrome child after birth is disgraceful, it would have been completely morally acceptable for the child to have been aborted, even expected if the diagnosis had been made before birth. Frances Joynt, who has Down Syndrome, and her mother Helen have something to say about this aspect of the case.

Dr Barbara Hayes explains the aim of palliative care: to support the person with incurable illness to live their remaining life as well, and as meaningfully, as possible and then to support them as they eventually die from their illness.

In a society anxious about danger and calamity, increased surveillance of citizens is a temptation. The prophet Samuel was confronted by a people seeking certainty through strength. Can Christian communities live differently amidst such uncertainty?

Christians must find ways of accurately give an account of what has happened, ‘unspeakable’ or not, in the midst of war in Ukraine. We also need to contribute to public conversation about how we should act in response to this.

In recent months a number of extreme cases of Christian persecution have been reported in the media. Why is the Western media generally so disinterested in the subject of Christian persecution?

"There is nothing to be cherished about speech that offends, insults, or humiliates on the basis of the colour of one’s skin or ethnic background. I know this personally... I have always considered my cultural and ethnic background as something that enriches, rather than diminishes, me as an Australian."

One of the objections commonly heard to both taking in asylum seekers and our wider immigration program is a fear that we are being Islamicised. This reflects a worry that most Muslims, if they had the chance, would vote to see sharia law imposed on the Australian population; that Muslims bring with them a violent culture; and/or that Muslim people simply won’t integrate into Australian society. Some see a conspiracy theory, believing that Muslims are plotting to take over nations such as Australia by first settling here and then having large families, so that the population eventually becomes majority Muslim.