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Friday, 20 August 2010
| Gordon Preece
Gordon Preece reflects on the problems besetting Australian politics and critiques the Christian response
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
| Ian Packer, Assistant Director, Ethos
With the emergence of a post-Christendom society, many Christians continue to be vexed about what might be a proper response to the waning of Christian influence in society.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
| Julian Holdsworth
If the fears expressed on some Christian blog sites are to be believed, the UK is in serious trouble. And I’m not talking about the economic downturn. Some online commentators argue that within a decade or three, the UK will become virtually an Islamic republic
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
| Gil Cann
A fairly recent survey of two mainline denominations revealed a stunning fact – 70% of the members saw little or no connection between the faith they professed and their everyday and workplace lives.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
| Redina Kolaneci, Senior Fundraising & Stewardship Consultant, McConkey-Johnston international UK
One subject that is rarely discussed in polite Christian circles but that has tremendous impact on the work of church and para-church organizations is that of giving money. Pastors either tiptoe around the subject for fear of offending parishioners or spend inordinate amounts of time focusing on the importance of giving.
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Friday, 18 June 2010
| Jennifer Turner
Pilgrim's Progress always struck me as a very individualistic depiction of the Christian ‘pilgrimage’, a characterisation which doesn’t do justice to the communal nature of our faith.
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Friday, 18 June 2010
| Monique ten Hoopen
Have the sayings “Share the gospel and if necessary use words” or “You may be the only Bible someone reads” become an excuse for not verbalising our faith?
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Friday, 18 June 2010
| Angus McLeay
Evangelical leaders aren’t generally known for threatening “civil unrest”. But that is what the evangelical former Archbishop of Cantebury, Lord Carey, intimated might happen unless the UK’s courts become more sensitive to religious views.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010
| Kylie Butler
Christians are biblically illiterate. Although most of them contend that the Bible contains truth and is worth knowing, and most of them argue that they know all of the relevant truths and principles. (The Barna Group.) The Christian community in Australia is in a major crisis and for the most part we are completely unaware of it.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010
| Kevin Giles
It may come as a surprise to many Protestant Christians to discover that the Roman Catholic Church teaches the essential equality of the sexes, seeing the subordination of women as an evil to be opposed. Pope John Paul II even called himself a ‘feminist'!
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