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No Place to Go: A Reflection on Providing Asylum

Monday, 28 February 2011

| Barbara Lloyd

Barbara Lloyd tells her story of providing asylum for Ali and Hadi, two Hazara Afghani boys.

Responding to Australian same-sex marriage proposals

Monday, 21 February 2011

| Andrew Cameron

Andrew Cameron of the Centre for Christian Living reflects on issues surrounding the call for recognition of same-sex marriage

Christian Religious Education in Government Schools

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

| Denise Nicholls

Denise Nicholls of ACCESS ministries assesses the current state of 'Religious Instruction' in public schools

Commercial Surrogacy: Can a Woman Forget the Child She Has Borne?

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

| Denise Cooper-Clarke

The announcement Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban had become the parents of a daughter through a “gestational carrier” raises important questions about the morality of surrogate motherhood.

Is God to Blame for Floods?

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

| Byron Smith

How are we to understand such events? Are these floods acts of God? Punishments of some kind? Senseless and random natural disasters? After-effects of the fall? Premonitions of some impending apocalypse?