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Monday, 4 April 2016
| Nils von Kalm
What does Trump’s popularity say about the man but, more importantly, about us? Nils von Kalm draws on Franciscan Richard Rohr’s framework of two halves of life, adolescence and adulthood, to explain the Trump phenomenon.
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Monday, 4 April 2016
| Andre van Eymeren
Could the Hebrew concept of Shalom be used to design boarding houses that provide spaces for some of society’s most vulnerable to thrive and flourish? Rooming houses run by Servants in Melbourne provide a glimpse of this vision.
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Monday, 4 April 2016
| Trevor Thomas
The Ethinvest Managing Director explains how individuals can help shape a more sustainable future through investment choices, building on Emma Wood’s article in the latest edition of Zadok (issue 130, Autumn 2016).
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Monday, 4 April 2016
| Lucy Allan and Misha Coleman
The concept of sanctuary is rooted in a deep tradition within the Christian church, and we have a civic duty to see justice for asylum seekers.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
| Ben Thurley
The role of government is to reflect God's vision for the world, by ensuring justice and protecting the vulnerable. Christians are called to hold governments accountable to this standard.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
| Gordon Preece
People are more than just workers and consumers in a 24/7 market society, and penalty rates help protect the special nature of Sunday as a shared day of rest for all Australians.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
| Fuzz Kitto
As everyday consumers, we are connected to the modern-day slave trade through the things we eat, drink and wear. Slavery strikes at the heart of what it means to be made in the image of God, and freeing slaves is a spiritual act.
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Monday, 7 March 2016
| Alison Sampson
Lent is a time of self-examination. What is the prophetic message for us today, in modern-day Australia, as we read Jeremiah’s Oracles Against the Nations?
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Tuesday, 2 February 2016
| Gordon Preece
Holiday’s over, back to work! That’s the cry echoing in the ears of many workers. The return to work for Christians, for all its aspects of the Genesis 3:16-17 curse, is also a Genesis 1:26-28 blessing. Work is a place to seek God’s face, near at hand, under our noses.
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Monday, 1 February 2016
| Bernie Power
If Muslims do not worship the same God as Christians because they reject the Trinity and the deity of Jesus, by the same logic do Jews also worship a different God? The answer lies in understanding the relationship between the Old and New Testaments on the one hand, and between the Qu'ran and the New Testament on the other.
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