This year's Sydney Writer's Festival featured contemporary and brave works by those categorised as 'racial minority' writers, and a reminder from Tim Costello that faith and social responsibility are 'Siamese twins'.

The light of love shines brightest when circumstances are at their darkest. In a land of conflict, it was the suffering love of the Prince of Peace who walked those dusty roads that impacted me the most. It is a love to which I give my life.

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from 1st May to 4th June 2017.

Is ’the blood of the martyrs the seed of the church'? It's best we ask Egypt's Copts, whose resilience is being sorely tested in the midst of ongoing oppression and persecution in an increasingly dangerous nation.

It seems that, apart from a small number of women who will benefit from egg-freezing, it is mostly a marketing ‘false fact’ designed to play on women’s guilt.

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.

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.

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for April 2017.

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.

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.