Here's something my Melbourne colleague Gordon Preece wrote earlier this month, which I think deserves a wider hearing: Recently I went to an Australian Christian Lobby night in the Victorian parliament house where the leaders of the two main parties (with Bronwyn Pike filling in for John Brumby) addressed church leaders and responded to questions. It …
Shapers of Baptist social ethics
Larry L. McSwain & William Loyd Allen (eds), Twentieth-Century Shapers of Baptist Social Ethics (Macon GA: Mercer University Press, 2008). Reviewed by Rod Benson In November 2004, I wrote to 42 Australian Baptist leaders, asking each of them the following question: “If Henlee Barnette, T.B. Maston, Martin Luther King, Jr and Clarence Jordan are viewed …
Compassion can show the way
By Rod Benson Christian author Max Lucardo knows how to write a book. He’s sold more than 65 million. And he loves to talk about his faith, and argue with atheists. But several years ago musician Tai Anderson asked Lucardo a challenging question: “When your great grandchildren learn that you lived in a day in …
Banks need ethical leaders
By Rod Benson It’s fair to say that my interests centre on politics, ethics and literature. I don’t often read the business section of the daily papers. But a Sydney Morning Herald article by Ian Verrender caught my eye this week. He notes that the four big banks are expected to deliver annual earnings figures …
In step with the Spirit
By Neville Callam The old quinquennium [of the Baptist World Alliance, 2005-2010] is over; a new one has begun and, early in this new period, do we not have opportunity to reflect on the road we took during the last quinquennium? Shall we not take steps to ensure that we are benefitting from the lessons …
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