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Sunday, 4 May 2014
| Brian Edgar
A society that is wealthier but with greater levels of inequality is likely to do worse on a wide range of social indicators than a poorer but more equitable society.
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Monday, 28 April 2014
| Matt Anslow
Karl Barth said, “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” Matt Anslow discusses the public significance of prayer in protests.
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Monday, 7 April 2014
| Brian Edgar
A society that is wealthier but with greater levels of inequality is likely to do worse on a wide range of social indicators than a poorer but more equitable society.
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Monday, 7 April 2014
| Scott Buchanan
A loving call to Western Christians to reflect upon what it means to be a member of a body that is often hard-pressed by travail and persecution.
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Monday, 7 April 2014
| Denise Cooper-Clarke
Why is it that the legalisation of active euthanasia for competent adults with strict guidelines has so quickly led to the practice and eventually legalisation of active euthanasia for children and even (effectively) infants?
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Monday, 7 April 2014
| Jennifer Turner
Do I need to be “fixed up” before I can help others? What is the balance between self-care and self-less service?
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Monday, 3 March 2014
| Gordon Preece
'A Public Faith' could be the replacement for Niebuhr's 'Christ and Culture' for the current generation.
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Monday, 3 March 2014
| John McKinnon
Like the manager in the story, we participate in an economic system that exploits people and destroys community. From our compromised, colluding position, what can we do to redistribute wealth and rebuild community? Can we, like that manager, subvert the system?
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Monday, 3 March 2014
| Mick Pope
Many of us crave and seek out experiences of nature or wilderness; that need to get away to a place unspoilt or at least largely unoccupied by others. And yet what place is truly wild anymore?
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Monday, 3 March 2014
| Chelle Trebilcock
If ethics is the vocation to love, what does it mean to love God and love our neighbours as ourselves? What does it mean to love if the Law stops being a vehicle for love? When the Law ceases to function as a conduit for love, all is not lost, for love can bend the rules.
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