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Thursday, 14 December 2017
| Karly Michelle Edgar
Children of Men may feel like an extreme scenario, where a corrupt government keeps its citizens, especially the rich, safe and the refugees out. A government where some human beings are worth more than others. But if this year has shown us anything it’s that this isn’t some dystopian, futuristic movie plot. This is the present.
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Wednesday, 6 December 2017
| Mick Pope
While governments like Australia close their borders, and the US closes its mind to climate change, Christians are to love our neighbours by linking these justice issues together. The two are not unrelated - climate change can be a driver of significant migration.
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Monday, 4 December 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from November 2017.
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Saturday, 11 November 2017
| Mick Pope
It’s not about self-flagellation, guilt or shame, but about waking up and stepping up. It’s about restorative justice that lifts people up, and right living that prevents us from falling into sin. I need to be saved, not from skin, not from gender, but from the throne of privilege.
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Tuesday, 7 November 2017
| Gordo Preece
The Ethos Board and members met on Wednesday 25th October at All Saints Anglican Church, Greensborough, to review the past year and look to the future.
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Monday, 6 November 2017
| Ethos editor
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces from October 2017.
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Monday, 30 October 2017
| Michael Bull
In Villeneuve's transhuman world, moral absolutes have succumbed to corporate interests and brutal pragmatism. The film poses uncomfortable questions for a culture whose prosperity is maintained artificially and unsustainably through abortion, exploitation and war, and whose divorce of sex from procreation is slowly but surely drifting into a demographic winter.
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Sunday, 22 October 2017
| John Kidson
To transpose the moral questions of Jesus' first century life into our 21st century is fraught with difficulty. So I've always thought we should add two extra letters to the wrist-band: WWJHMD – what would Jesus have me do?
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Wednesday, 18 October 2017
| Ethos editor
A selection of articles from the Australian media on euthanasia, in the lead-up to the debate of the Assisted Dying Bill in the Victorian Parliament in October 2017.
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Monday, 9 October 2017
| Gordon Preece
James Hunter challenges our individualistic view of change and the narrow and misguided focus on political power among both Left and Right. He calls for a positive Christian posture of ‘faithful presence’, shaped by covenantal Christian community and salting every social structure.
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