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Thursday, 8 April 2010
| Gordon Preece, Ethos Director
The crowd of one hundred at the Ethos Launch on March 27th were treated to a sumptuous feast provided by Hot Dish caterers and Tim Costello (CEO World Vision) , Mick Pope and Amar Breckenridge (Ethos Environment). The providential coincidence with Global Earth Hour and the candle-lit ambience called for light on the situation. Our three speakers ably obliged.
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Friday, 5 March 2010
| Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society
On the weekend of March 13-14, Melbourne will host the Global Atheism Convention, with Richard Dawkins as a main speaker. No doubt the airwaves, as well as letters to the editor and opinion pieces in the print media and numerous blogs will endlessly recycle a persistent urban myth about the relationship between science and faith. An urban myth is demonstrably untrue, yet continues to be believed at a popular level, stubbornly resisting correction. In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins presupposes this myth: that science has disproved religion. What is the evidence, largely ignored, that this is in fact, just a myth?
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Friday, 5 March 2010
| David Turnbull - Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies, Tabor Adelaide
The contemporary Australian and global multi-religious environments can’t be ignored. The growing momentum of different religions globally is impacting on the position and status of Christianity. This diversity was on show recently when Melbourne hosted the week-long Parliament of the World’s Religions, the fourth of its kind since 1993. Over 6,000 delegates from 80 countries and 220 religions/faith belief systems attended.
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Friday, 5 March 2010
| Shane Varcoe - Executive Director, Dalgarno Institute
Evangelism, in our post- modern/post-Christian first world West is, if not a ‘dirty’ word, then a word conspicuous by its absence! Some say that statement’s a bit rash, but is it? I suppose it depends on who you talk to and where their ‘Biblical head’ is at!
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Friday, 5 March 2010
| Allan Quak, Church planter, Northside Evangelical Church, Queensland
The plans for planting Northside Evangelical Church gained serious momentum in September 2006. Several highly recommended books on Church Planting were read, leaders who had church planting experience were consulted and a very fancy looking strategic plan was developed. To be honest it all looked very complicated and difficult, especially because we seemed to lack three key ingredients: - people, time and financial resources.
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