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		<title>Fresh call to scrap ethics classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW government’s ethics classes are again in the news, with the Council of Churches urging Premier Barry O’Farrell to repeal the legislation that led to the establishment of ethics classes in NSW state schools. The current arrangement was imposed by the Labor Party in the dying days of the Keneally Government, with Education Minister [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1480&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics classes no threat to SRE, say churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two years debate has raged over the merits of introducing secular ethics classes in NSW state schools, in competition to the established special religious education, or scripture classes. Ethics classes are now running in about 120 primary schools, with limited uptake by students and a shortage of teachers. Christian Democratic Party MP Fred Nile, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1463&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning baby girls into boys in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard how there’s an unusually high ratio of boys to girls in India and China – due largely to a preference for boys which leads many parents to abort girl babies, a national tragedy in both countries. Now some Indian parents have gone a step further, and baby girls are being “converted” into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1444&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online resources for Christian ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a selective list of online resources for ethics and public theology.  Listing here does not imply endorsement of organisations or content.  There are many more, with new ones appearing almost every week.  If you find other helpful links, or if links below are inactive, please contact ethics@morling.edu.au All links were active on 27 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1423&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel K. Roberts on virtue theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, after lunch with fellow Australians Ken Manley, Frank Rees and David Parker, and foreign ring-ins Richard Pierard, Charles Curran and others, I attended the first of three meetings of the BWA Commission on Christian Ethics, chaired by Richard Wilson. There were 27 present (although three or four arrived quite late), and Samuel K. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1384&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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