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Friday, 27 August 2021
| Don Thompson
‘Financial Follies’ highlighted a fundamental problem, but like the Royal Commission can only provide signposts not solutions. Can our churches cooperate effectively to present and model a convincing challenge?
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Thursday, 26 August 2021
| John Kidson
More than ever, we need grace and truth to get through all of this.
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Monday, 23 August 2021
| Gordon Preece
Endnotes for article published in Zadok Perspectives 151: Differing over Difference: Sexuality & Gender Tensions (Winter 2021), 14-16
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Monday, 23 August 2021
| John Kleinig
Endnotes for article published in Zadok Perspectives 151: Differing over Difference: Sexuality & Gender Tensions (Winter 2021), 17-22.
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Friday, 20 August 2021
| Ian Hore-Lacy
John Dickson's book provides a timely reminder of the Christian legacy over two millennia - both the good and the ugly - and a call to affirm the ‘melody lines’ of Christian values in social and political life today.
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Thursday, 12 August 2021
| Claire Harvey
Engaging with climate change can be hard, tiring and often lonely. Our churches should be places that offer hope for the hopeless and an active community to join as we live out both simple and boldly audacious acts of creation care.
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Thursday, 29 July 2021
| Steve Taylor
Acts of remarkable grace occur in the strangest places. Female Christ figures challenge the male saviour complex so embedded in patriarchal thinking.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2021
| Michaella Curtis-Morris
The grace and patience shown by grandparents can have a significant impact on the lives of their grandchildren.
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Tuesday, 8 June 2021
| John Kidson
Covid is just another sign that we live in a broken world.
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Thursday, 22 April 2021
| John Kidson
Sombre thoughts and wild ecstatic celebration, death and resurrection, a breathless determination to find hope.
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