Do I need to be “fixed up” before I can help others? What is the balance between self-care and self-less service?

'A Public Faith' could be the replacement for Niebuhr's 'Christ and Culture' for the current generation.

Like the manager in the story, we participate in an economic system that exploits people and destroys community. From our compromised, colluding position, what can we do to redistribute wealth and rebuild community? Can we, like that manager, subvert the system?

Many of us crave and seek out experiences of nature or wilderness; that need to get away to a place unspoilt or at least largely unoccupied by others. And yet what place is truly wild anymore?

If ethics is the vocation to love, what does it mean to love God and love our neighbours as ourselves? What does it mean to love if the Law stops being a vehicle for love? When the Law ceases to function as a conduit for love, all is not lost, for love can bend the rules.

Christendom is Australia is dying the death of a thousand cuts. With a receding influence exemplified by increasing calls for the removal of The Lord’s Prayer from Parliament, the church has the opportunity not to get angry, or to get even, but to witness to the world what the prayer might look like when truly lived out in alternate polis.

Some notes for Christians to help orient them to the task of engaging with the Australian Government on policy and the treatment of asylum seekers

Many things make me proud to be Australian. Yet all is not good in this country that I love. We have some grievous wounds that need attention.

When we have our investments pulling in the opposite direction to our giving, some benefits of generosity can be cancelled out. However, when they are aligned, the synergies can be nothing short of beautiful.

Lewis’s storytelling style is built, importantly, on the idea that within stories we will find secrets. It seems appropriate to speak about his love of stories, especially children’s stories, as we mark 50 years since his death.