Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong in 2009. When someone claims to be a Christian, and attends church every Sunday, and identifies climate change as “the greatest moral challenge of our time,” and then backs away from policies to address the issue, questions arise about their moral compass. Just last …
Kevin Rudd on his Christian faith
In view of the series of policy reversals by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd over the last few weeks, most notably his decision to abort the proposed emissions trading scheme (despite casting climate change as "the greatest moral issue of our time"), I thought it was worth reminding the real world of what Mr Rudd said on air …
The limits of dissent among Baptists
The Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain recently spent three days discussing “Women in Leadership among the Churches." This wasn’t a debate about whether women can exercise ministerial leadership. That was established back in the 1920s and affirmed many times since. It was about some of the attitudes women encounter when they explore a leadership calling, …
Easter message
The long weekend is almost upon us, offering time to catch our breath and reflect on where we’ve come from and where we’re heading. We all have hopes for the future – whether private or public, small or large. What are your hopes for 2010? What are your hopes for the future? What gives you …
Religious perspectives on embryo donation
My co-authored paper, "Religious perspectives on embryo donation and research," has been published in Clinical Ethics, the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Well done to the team and contributors in what turned out to be a laborious process! Here's the abstract: The success of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) worldwide has led to an accumulation of …
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