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Articles for Engage.Mail are generally from within a broadly Evangelical perspective. Ethos does not necessarily endorse every opinion of the authors but promotes their writing to encourage critical thought and discussion.

 

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The Modern Slavery Act: is it our lost opportunity?

Thursday, 1 March 2018
 | Andrea Tokaji

The majority of today’s slaves are women and children trafficked for sex. Stronger laws are needed, but we must address the problem at its root by confronting the commodification of the flesh and reducing demand for paid sex. NSW's proposed Modern Slavery Act is part of the solution, but it does not address demand. Here is one strategy to disrupt demand.

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Uniformity-in-diversity

Wednesday, 21 February 2018
 | Katherine Abetz

We are increasingly being urged not to prioritise our Western heritage but to open ourselves out to a broad spectrum of diversity. Yet it’s not Christianity that is Western, but the retreat from traditional values and the new approach to diversity that puts everything (and everyone) in the same box – a modern pax Romana.

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Politics or Jesus?

Tuesday, 20 February 2018
 | John Yates

In engaging the powers of the political realm, Christians on both left and right have been ensnared in the world’s ways of doing things. At root this is a deep spiritual problem. There is a way forward for re-discipling our nations, but it will not happen in the way we think, and it will require unprecedented humility.

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A sketch of creative millennials from the inner north of Melbourne

Tuesday, 20 February 2018
 | Remy Chadwick

Young culture makers are an unknown quantity to many Christians. They care about cultural and ethical values, but find religion weird and see Christianity as a system through which inequality and oppression can thrive. What would it take to bridge this world and the world of the church?

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From alms to arms

Tuesday, 13 February 2018
 | Gordon Preece

Australia is now set to become a top ten global arms producer and dealer. The government’s amorally framed announcement was justified purely financially, but the consequences of favouring warfare over welfare will be felt for generations, with nations indebted, lives lost and environments destroyed.

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Beyond Australia Day

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
 | Glenn Loughrey

Australia Day is offensive because it represents the ongoing genocide of Aboriginal People. And all non-indigenous people, including churches, are complicit because they are beneficiaries of stolen land and participants in the destruction of culture, language and spirituality that continues today. But we need more than a change of date or an apology; we need a cessation of hostilities, reparation and treaty.

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Solving the problem of Australia Day

Sunday, 21 January 2018
 | Stephen Chavura

While we have much to celebrate as a nation, January 26th is a day of sorrow for indigenous Australians. There is no approach to the problem of celebrating or not celebrating this nation’s morally ambiguous origins and history that is going to make everybody happy. But one solution could help break the impasse.

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Australia Day Grace

Sunday, 21 January 2018
 | Megan Powell du Toit

We need to confess that we built this country upon the oppression of the original inhabitants, and that the results of this continue today. We celebrate our nation on a date that reminds the original inhabitants of the evil and injustice done to them. What would grace do?

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For the generation gap, look closer to home

Saturday, 23 December 2017
 | Arthur Davis and Nathan Campbell

Millennials are leading the demographic shift towards ‘religious nones’. And in many ways millennial Christians are at odds with their Gen X leaders. But they have much to offer, and collaboration is possible. In a world that is profoundly fragmented, and often burned by Christianity, the hopeful openness of millennials could do wonders for the church’s witness.

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About His Father’s Business: Luke 2:40-52

Tuesday, 5 December 2017
 | Bruce Wearne

The Gospel writers respectfully leave out most of the details of Jesus’ boyhood, to be told within his earthly family’s remembrances, part of Mary’s heart-stored treasure. This silence reminds us of the God-blessed integrity of marriage and family life, even as the Good News of Jesus Christ encourages us in our story-telling generation to generation.

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