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Sunday, 13 December 2020
| Christopher Brown
Through engaging with Jesus and his Beatitudes we can experience his solidarity of relationship with us, offering his blessings as we acknowledge our current poverty of spirit, and guiding us through our mourning and self-emptying.
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Friday, 11 December 2020
| Jo Knight
The winds are shifting, and the climate conversation is once again back on the agenda. At the same time, Covid and the unfolding climate crisis have taken poverty to another level, both nationally and globally. In response, Tearfund has launched a new campaign to raise a united Christian voice to our political leaders.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2020
| Jason Goroncy
The parable of the father and his two broken sons in Luke 15 reminds us of the possibility of renewed, healed and reconstituted relationships and the promise that one’s judgement about one’s self is not the last word spoken over one’s life.
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Thursday, 29 October 2020
| Oscar Delaney
Happiness, thought and altruism. A poem about hope in pain, ignorance and self-absorption.
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Monday, 19 October 2020
| Robert Wolfgramm
Ron Sider's edited collection of 25 essays from 30 Evangelical Christian contributors offers insight into Trump’s public character and apparent values and explores the reasons for Christian support for Trump. But it explores the intersection of American politics and religion generally, highlighting the growing polarisation in that country.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2020
| Tearfund Australia
TEAR Australia, which along with Ethos is part of the Evangelical Alliance family, is renaming itself to Tearfund, reflecting its closer ties with the global Tearfund family's fight against poverty and injustice.
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Wednesday, 23 September 2020
| Barbara Deutschmann
Amanda Benckhuysen shows how the Adam and Eve story has been read with misogyny at times, gender essentialism and rigidity at others. But courageous women have found in it the grounds for their empowerment, and their shared divine image.
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Tuesday, 1 September 2020
| John Kidson
What is our role as 'future leader-shapers'? What should be education's aim? Surely we must go beyond giving hope of likely post-Covid employment after graduating.
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Monday, 10 August 2020
| Elaine Furniss
I give thanks for my neighbours in adjacent principalities. I love the ingenuity of the kids on the corner who communicate with their neighbour kids at the apex of their elevation on the resident trampoline in each backyard.
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Monday, 3 August 2020
| Oscar Delaney
Dead animals, homeless Bangladeshis and empty stomachs. A poem about storm and drought, flood and fire.
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