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The question of how Christians ought to live has occupied believers since the earliest days of the church. The New Testament repeatedly links faith in Jesus Christ with transformed patterns of life, calling followers of the way of Jesus to love God, love their neighbours, pursue holiness, embody the character of Christ, and seek to …
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Ethics is the disciplined study of how human beings ought to live. It asks enduring questions about right and wrong, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, duty and responsibility. More profoundly, ethics seeks to understand what constitutes a good life and what kind of persons and communities we should aspire to become. While every culture …
In recent months, English actor and comedian Russell Brand has made headlines over multiple allegations of sexual assault and rape, all of which he has disputed. This is on the top of earlier allegations of drug abuse, battery and criminal damage. Judging by media reports, he’s not the kind of guy you’d want your daughter or …
PART 1 Until the release of Dilexit nos in October 2024, the encyclicals of the late Pope Francis (1936-2025) had largely focused on the social teaching of the Catholic Church. With his fourth encyclical, he turns his attention to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a central feature of private Catholic devotion. Dilexit nos (“He loved us,” hereafter DN) is …
Rev Dr Rod Benson, General Secretary, NSW Ecumenical CouncilFifth Theology Symposium: Nicaea at 1700: A Council for the Ages?St Andrew’s College, Redfern, Sydney, 23 August 2025 Introduction In 1914, Princeton theologian Archibald B. D. Alexander claimed that ethics was the crown of theology which “ought to be the end of all previous study.” He lamented a …
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