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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
| Alan Williams
2011 provides Australian Christians with a rare opportunity. This year, Easter Day will be celebrated on Sunday, 24 April. The following day will see the nation remember Anzac Day. These days share several similarities, beginning with pre-dawn rituals, but more significantly being important to the sense of identity for millions of people. So how do they relate to each other? What are the opportunities, and threats, that 2011 presents with these key events being on successive days?
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
| Murray Hogg
Despite the high value we place on proving the truth of our beliefs, such proof often proves elusive. How might Christians proceed when it comes to deciding on issues such as global warming or evolutionary theory? Murray Hogg argues that we do the best we can, with the information we’ve got because “absolute proof” is a luxury we can rarely hope to obtain.
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Monday, 7 March 2011
| Interchurch Gambling Taskforce
A call to contact politicians on latest developments on the inadequate responses to the social problem of gambling
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Monday, 28 February 2011
| Kevin Giles
Kevin Giles responds to a recent conference on gender relationships and ministry
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Monday, 28 February 2011
| Paul Arnott and Janine Stewart
Highlights from this year's CMS conference
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Monday, 28 February 2011
| Barbara Lloyd
Barbara Lloyd tells her story of providing asylum for Ali and Hadi, two Hazara Afghani boys.
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Monday, 21 February 2011
| Andrew Cameron
Andrew Cameron of the Centre for Christian Living reflects on issues surrounding the call for recognition of same-sex marriage
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Tuesday, 1 February 2011
| Denise Nicholls
Denise Nicholls of ACCESS ministries assesses the current state of 'Religious Instruction' in public schools
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Tuesday, 1 February 2011
| Denise Cooper-Clarke
The announcement Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban had become the parents of a daughter through a “gestational carrier” raises important questions about the morality of surrogate motherhood.
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Tuesday, 1 February 2011
| Byron Smith
How are we to understand such events? Are these floods acts of God? Punishments of some kind? Senseless and random natural disasters? After-effects of the fall? Premonitions of some impending apocalypse?
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