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Three out of five Australians identify as Christian in the national census, but a recent survey commissioned by Olive Tree Media suggests that those with an active interest in spirituality are just 40 per cent of the population, and only eight per cent indicate they are involved in practicing their religion or worship as part …
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Were you one of the thousands who participated in Hope for Creation last Sunday? Hope for Creation is an opportunity to engage as people of faith in an ongoing public conversation too long dominated by science and politics. Last weekend, Christians around Australia joined others in 50 countries to pray about the negative impact of …
The NSW government is considering changing the law governing shop trading hours to allow retail outlets to open on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. With Anzac Day trading currently allowed from 1pm, there are just four-and-a-half days a year with restricted trading provisions – and a change in the …
Extract from a column by Martyn E. Marty, "American Baptists," Sightings, 24 October 2011, published by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School: ... Notre Dame’s Mark Noll, who knows as much as anyone about this subject, wrote in the July-August issue of Books & Culture magazine, “So You’re a Baptist—What Might …
In biblical times a distinction between work and life, and between workplace relationships and social relationships, was less apparent than it is for many workers today. In addition, scholars disagree on how to interpret and apply the social structures assumed by Scripture writers. Further, contemporary models of the welfare state, and capitalist/socialist economic theory, while …
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