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On Tuesday night I joined about 140 senior church leaders at the NSW Parliament to hear Labor Premier Kristina Keneally and Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell address the first NSW election forum convened by the Australian Christian Lobby. Both leaders made initial statements and then took questions from church leaders. Premier Keneally spoke of the challenge …
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Here's the latest news from the Baptist World Alliance: Washington (BWA)--As we move into the second decade of the 21st Century, a theological question raised in the second half of the 20th century remains a pressing one: how to talk about God in a world increasingly marked by social injustice and oppression? In spite of …
Two related events in the past 48 hours have done more to lower my opinion of prominent politicians and galvanise my support for public policy reform than anything else in 2011. The first was the federal opposition’s response to a decision by the immigration department to fly grieving asylum seekers to funerals in Sydney yesterday for eight of those killed when …
This is an article written by Christine Redwood, a member of the Social Issues Committee of the Baptist Union of NSW. She submitted the piece for publication in the denominational magazine, "Together in Ministry", but it was rejected by a Baptist Union staff member before it reached the editor. I publish it here with pleasure, …
The Federal Government’s national school curriculum includes the study of Aboriginal culture and spirituality at almost every year level, but nothing about our nation’s biblical heritage, says NSW teacher David Hastie. Knowledge of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures is important for cultural as well as spiritual reasons. Even ardent atheist Christopher Hitchens said, “You are not …
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