An address by Dr Rod Benson at the Faculty & Staff Christmas Party, Moore Theological College, held at Petersham RSL Club, 6 December 2023 As a wordsmith rather than a mathematician, I must confess that when I was asked to step into Dr William Hood’s statistically significant shoes and manage the bell curve of today’s …
Statement on Aboriginal reconciliation
The following statement was adopted by resolution of delegates to the Queensland Baptist Convention Annual Assembly on Thursday 11 September 1997. The statement was moved by the General Superintendent of the Baptist Union of Queensland Rev. Dr Stan Solomon and seconded by Senior Pastor Rod Benson of Flinders Baptist Community Church in Ipswich, Queensland. It …
Rock the boats
Address at a forum on asylum seeker policy, Lake Joondalup Baptist Church, Perth, 21 September 2014 The Bible and refugees In debates about asylum seekers, Christians are often caught up in the groundswell of public opinion, and face the danger of allowing popular fears or political allegiances, rather than biblical principles, to shape their perspective. …
John Saunders: Baptist pastor and activist
Speech at the Sydney launch of Ken R. Manley & Barbara Coe (eds), John Saunders: Baptist Pastor and Activist 1834-1848 (Sydney: Greenwood Press, 2014). Rod Benson, 9 August 2014 When Dr Michael Frost addressed a meeting of the Baptist Historical Society two decades ago, on the evangelistic ministry of the Reverend C. J. Tinsley, he …
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Christian approaches to war in the light of the biblical command not to kill
A public address by Rod Benson, 12 March 2009 Thank you for the kind invitation to address this gathering of the Council of Christians and Jews in what is a very beautiful Sydney building, the Great Synagogue. It has not escaped my notice that, two days after the Rudd Government reversed the previous Government’s policy …
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