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Wednesday, 7 August 2019
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from July 2019
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Wednesday, 3 July 2019
| Rex Dale
Words are used to define, but are also instruments of love, healing and peace, writes Marilyn McEntyre. Yet like any other life-sustaining resource, words can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded and filled with artificial stimulants. How can we guard against the abuse of language?
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Tuesday, 2 July 2019
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from June 2019
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Friday, 28 June 2019
| John Kidson
In claiming adherence to a higher authority, ScoMo and Izzy would be judged in two 'higher' courts. But they, like all of us, are called to follow the lead given to us by Jesus, to tread carefully the fine balance between grace and truth.
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Tuesday, 4 June 2019
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from May 2019
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Wednesday, 29 May 2019
| John Kidson
How do we answer the question: ‘Why do we suffer?’ Is there even a correct question? And does the answer change if we have terminal cancer? God doesn't want us to suffer, but suffering allows him to work out his good plan in our lives.
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Tuesday, 28 May 2019
| John McKinnon
What if the Book of Romans, rather than a timeless systematic theology, is really a pastoral letter to those living at the heart of the Roman Empire that seeks to disarm the violence of that first-century power?
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Tuesday, 7 May 2019
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from April 2019
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Tuesday, 7 May 2019
| Ian Hore-Lacy
How does the Qur’an relate to the Bible? Is there any real substance in the similarities between the two? Mark Durie argues that, though the Qur’an was clearly influenced by Judaism and Christianity, it embodies a new, distinctive theology.
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Monday, 18 March 2019
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from March 2019
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