So is Armstrong a fall guy for a period where it was the done thing? Or is he a mastermind? Drug-taking has been all too common, although the fact so many cyclists have been caught is both reassuring as well as disturbing.

The encouragement offered to us by Christ as king is often not what we want, though it is what we need. What does it mean for our discipleship that Christ is king?

Working with people with disabilities can be varied experience, vacillating between joy and frustration, confidence and uncertainty. But the way we view disabilities is often worth challenging.

The struggle for justice, uncomfortable questions of character and our corruptibility, and the gospel hope of reconciliation all have a place in the story of asbestos in Australia

"Maybe some missions failed because we trusted each other to be good, and failed to properly acknowledge our sinful human nature."

Reflections on the moral calculus of the Australian Government’s policy on asylum seekers, or should the Government get into the business of taking hostages?

Barbara Deutschmann looks at the minefield of misogyny and sexism in a turbulent time in politics and in the wake of violent crimes against women.

Demonstrative public, secular-spiritual displays of grief have become an increasingly common feature of our postmodern pilgrimage. The post-Christendom Church no longer has a monopoly on the expression and articulation of public grief, but Brunswick Baptist in its own small but significant way showed that the church can play a significant, if smaller part in providing solace in the face of inexplicably random violence and suffering.

Following a highly visible polemic against misogyny, the Federal government has moved to implement policy that forces more than 140,000 sole parents - mainly women - on to a Newstart Allowance that has seen no real increase since 1994.

Whence Christian character? The Church today is weak because it largely fails to form believers and train them as apprentices in the Kingdom of God within strong faith communities. The synoptic vision of the Renovare movement seeks to move us beyond cultures of pietism, ‘sin management’ or social justice without the underpinnings of spiritual practice.