Patterns of work, consumption, recreation, housing, use of technology, savings and investment tend to be derived generally from the world around us. In short, most Australian Christians live ‘normal’ Western lives. Manna Gum seeks to help us change this.

The food production network is an ecosystem of sorts, a network which exists within but touches on all parts of the grand ecosystem called creation. What happens when we corrupt it?

In an attempt to rediscover the convivial society, many recent philosophers have tried to revive the notion of the Common Good. Does it have a future?

International women’s day was celebrated recently. Several responses fuel concerns that gender identity isn’t being constructively discussed by Christians.

An interview with Thomas Schirrmacher, speaker for human rights and executive chair of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.

When it comes to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, it would be difficult for anyone in Australian society to refute the timeliness and importance of such an initiative. Even those in power within institutions with the most to lose have claimed publicly that they will ‘cooperate fully’ with the process. But what does it really mean for the Christian church to ‘take sides’ against oppression perpetrated behind its own closed doors?

We now find our sporting interests hitting the front pages of our newspapers in new ways.

Reflections from an oncology ward.

For Christians living in Western culture today, as it moves further and further away from its Christian heritage, it sometimes feels like being an alien or an immigrant or perhaps even like being in exile.

Public opinion about Ned Kelly is likely to remain polarised for the foreseeable future but the thoughtful views of colonial clergy such as Moorhouse and Coles continue to provide a model of careful Christian reflection on one of Australia’s wayward sons.