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Friday, 18 November 2022
| Matthew Ventura
With the number of Australians identifying as Christians now below 50 per cent, what can we learn from those who have lived as minorities all their lives about kinship, power and how to thrive under pressure?
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Wednesday, 16 November 2022
| Chris White
A suggested table to compare the weighting of party concerns with some moral and social priorities.
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Friday, 11 November 2022
| Rebecca Payne
Across Australia, faith-based groups are joining other groups of everyday Australians to welcome refugees into their communities under a new Federal government program.
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Tuesday, 1 November 2022
| Brendan Byrne
We might agree or disagree with the views held by Andrew Thorburn’s church. But should he have lost his job because many might have found those views offensive or harmful? There are at least two reasons to answer ’no’. And religious persecution is not one of them.
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Thursday, 27 October 2022
| Eugene Wong
When we are feeling down, or vulnerable, or simply exhausted, we seek safe places, restful places. There is a shortage of places like this in the world right now. How can we turn our churches into a spiritual home for the heart-broken, grieving and lonely?
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Wednesday, 12 October 2022
| Gary Harch
How comfortable are we discussing suicide? The tragic death of former Rugby League player and coach Paul Green two months ago reminds us that the best thing we can do when we are feeling hopeless or lonely is to reach out to those who care for us.
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Friday, 7 October 2022
| Larissa Minniecon
In her address to the Sydney Anglican Synod, Larissa Minniecon called on the church to support the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution, arguing that truth-telling should begin in the church.
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Monday, 26 September 2022
| Jacqueline Grey
Like the final Act of a play, we join God’s story by improvising the final act of this story of Scripture – staying consistent and true to Scripture, but being led by the Spirit towards the fulfilment of the story in God’s kingdom.
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Friday, 23 September 2022
| Anne Pattel-Gray
For most First Nations peoples in Australia, the Queen is a symbol of British imperialism under which we were colonised, who failed to rectify the wrongs of her forebears. But the church is also complicit.
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Monday, 12 September 2022
| Paul Tyson
The inauguration of King Charles III is a reminder that Australia has a public religion - the Church of England, with its head as our political sovereign - which is the grounds of legal and political authority. ‘Religious freedom’ is therefore private. But we often get it the wrong way around.
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