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Sunday, 4 June 2017
| Margaret Mowczko
A recent women's conference was told that short hair for women may be rebellious. Was Paul concerned about women's hair and veiling in ancient Corinth? Would he be concerned about it in 21st century Sydney?
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Sunday, 4 June 2017
| Ian Hore-Lacy
Human work is part of God's transforming purposes in the world. Christians are called to apply their lives to meeting people's needs by harnessing the productive potential of creation, while ensuring proper care and respect for creation.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Bruce Wearne
The BBC docu-drama, 37 Days, is a stark reminder of the futility and calamity of war. ANZAC day should be a day of solemn remembrance, serious reflection on the state of our world and self-examination: what are we doing to bring peace and justice to the world?
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Stephen Chavura
Neither cosmopolitanism nor Anzac Day can provide Australia with a cohesive identity or set of values. We need to anchor our discussion of values in institutions (including the church) that have proven their objective worth, and identify the virtues needed to keep those institutions healthy.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Megan Powell du Toit
Singing marries the evocative nature of poetry with the easy access to our emotions of music. We can experience God through secular songs that reveal an unexpected touch of the Spirit – the sneakiness of the sovereign God.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Erin Martine Sessions
The #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear campaign has revealed things said to Christian women, ranging from the well-meaning-but-misguided through to the blatantly misogynistic. But we can change the culture by changing our language.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2017
| James Garth
Our rapidly developing ability to vividly depict new worlds and space frontiers opens up tremendous prospects for dialogue about existential dilemmas - and an apologetic that embraces both aesthetics and reason, beauty and logic.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2017
| Michael Bull
The US prison population dwarfs that of other nations. How do we explain this phenomenon in the most Christian country in the world? Where the Left fails in the ministry of justice, the Pharisaical Right scapegoats the weak.
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Monday, 10 April 2017
| Wilma Gallet
Faced with pressures for conformity and compromise, faith-based organisations delivering government-funded welfare services need to uphold their distinctive mission, identity and practices and, if need be, refuse government funding.
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Monday, 10 April 2017
| Siu Fung Wu
The Scripture becomes real when we open our lives to the world around us, stepping out of our comfort zone and engaging with a diverse range of people, especially those at the margins.
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