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Ageing in Australia

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

| Ilsa Hampton

We cannot address the systemic issues in aged care without learning to celebrate ageing, value older people and recognise that relationships are central to flourishing as we age.

Oh God, help us to remember them

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

| Karina Kreminski

The people in our community who are not famous, attractive, well-connected or ‘useful’ in our pragmatic, cold and calculating economy are a gift to us. They bring grace when we least expect it but often when we most need it.

Australian War Hunger

Friday, 24 September 2021

| Paul Tyson

Can AUKUS and an Australian fleet of nuclear subs give us the 'Peace and safety' we hope for?

Letter to the Zadok editor: Redeeming Creation

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?

Covid: restrictions, protests and ...

Thursday, 26 August 2021

| John Kidson

More than ever, we need grace and truth to get through all of this.

Endnotes for 'The Difference Marriage Makes and that Makes Marriage'

Monday, 23 August 2021

| Gordon Preece

Endnotes for article published in Zadok Perspectives 151: Differing over Difference: Sexuality & Gender Tensions (Winter 2021), 14-16

Endnotes for 'Genesis 3 and LGBT’

Monday, 23 August 2021

| John Kleinig

Endnotes for article published in Zadok Perspectives 151: Differing over Difference: Sexuality & Gender Tensions (Winter 2021), 17-22.

Book Review: Bullies and Saints: An honest look at the good and evil of Christian history

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.

Getting personal on climate change

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.