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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Kara Martin
For May Day, Kara Martin responds to an editorial in The Age on job satisfaction and time spent in the workplace, drawing on research to show that Christians experience greater purpose and meaning in their work.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Elena Down
By seeing disability as gift not punishment, strength not weakness, we can more fully embrace those with disability - and learn, from their uniqueness and our own, the beautiful simplicity of faith.
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Monday, 1 May 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for April 2017.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2017
| Frank Brennan
Section 18C should be amended to stamp out racial vilification while upholding freedom of speech even when people are insulted or offended. The bar should be set at the same level before the Human Rights Commission as it would be before the courts.
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Monday, 10 April 2017
| Chris Marshall
At the Community Energy Congress, Indigenous Australians spoke prophetically to the nation, bringing a challenge to faith at the very time that the mainstream churches have lost much of their authority.
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Monday, 10 April 2017
| Barbara Deutschmann
Women like the nameless ‘woman at the well’ prepare us to receive the astounding news that the saviour of the world will be seen not in a powerful male, but in a broken person upon a cross.
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Monday, 3 April 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for March 2017.
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Saturday, 4 March 2017
| Karina Kreminski
As we learn the way that God works - slow, delightful, surprising - we will learn how to work, and we will begin to experience work as a joy rather than a curse.
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Saturday, 4 March 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for February 2017.
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Saturday, 4 March 2017
| John Kidson
God's intention is for reproduction and nurture by mother and father. But we should welcome all - Straight and LGBTI - in the Church, and offer support to young people as they grapple with their sexuality.
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