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Monday, 5 October 2015
| Denise Cooper-Clarke
Pro-euthanasia advocate Julian Savulescu argued that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be legalised because they are not morally different from two currently morally and legally accepted medical practices. Dr Cooper-Clarke, a medical doctor (and ethicist with a PhD on this topic) critiques this claim.
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Monday, 21 September 2015
| Geoff Thompson
From Eagleton’s grasp of Christian theology, and his confidence to resist the cultural embargo often placed over it, there is much to learn. It may be one of the ways theology, and deep discussions about Christianity, become genuinely public.
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Friday, 18 September 2015
| Scott Higgins
The centuries from the Enlightenment until the present have seen the decline of Christendom and the rise of liberal, secular, pluralist democracies. This has dramatically reshaped the place of the church in society and societal expectations around virtue.
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Friday, 18 September 2015
| Alastair Roberts
Few moral issues facing us in our day require such careful navigation between treacherous hidden shoals of false virtues and well-intentioned folly as that of the mass movement of refugees. Fulfilling our calling to be both wise as serpents and harmless as doves is an immense, yet never more pressing, challenge.
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Monday, 7 September 2015
| Stephen McAlpine
The current cultural squeeze that Christianity is facing in the West risks sending God's people one of two extremes; to the barricades as culture warriors, or to the gated community as culture haters/avoiders. The former are determined to take the culture back, while the former are happy to give the culture back.
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
| Douglas Hynd
What does it mean to say that people are ‘evil’? Does the doing of evil deeds mean that people are no longer really human, having by their actions placed themselves outside the scope of the human community? If they are does that mean that we owe them no further duty of care, respect or justice?
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
| Will Jones
Community - The panacea to the emptiness of modern celebrity. But can it deliver all we want from it? Can it fill the emptiness left by modern individualistic, consumerist living?
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Sunday, 30 August 2015
| Brian Harris
there is a groundswell of support for the mantra proclaiming that faith is both toxic and abusive. They are undoubtedly one-sided, but beneath the overstated accusations lie some disturbing realities.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015
| Brooke Prentis
I have a dream that all Australians would have a willingness to learn the true history of this country, would know the true history of this country, and would retell the true history of this country. I have a dream that all Australians would live in a country that cares for the poor, respects difference, and embraces the world’s oldest living culture.
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Monday, 10 August 2015
| Barbara Deutschmann
I can’t really understand what it must be like to see your culture eroding with each successive generation. Language encodes culture and many Aboriginal languages have disappeared. Of the 250 traditional languages, only 40 remain and only 18 of these are still learnt by children.
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