Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. According to new research, churches and other faith communities are still the strongest centres of public good in modern society. The latest National Church Life Survey found that more than 25 per cent of attendees are involved in their church’s “welfare or justice activities” – volunteering with groups …
Violence by men against women
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. The shocking rape and murder of a young woman by a gang of male thugs in India last week has opened the eyes of the world to the violence suffered by Indian women, and their cultural disadvantage and social plight. Rape is one of the most serious of …
Happy New Year!
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. Happy New Year to all our listeners! On this first Sunday of 2013, here’s a prayer from one of the world’s great Christian leaders, the Reverend Billy Graham, published in The Saturday Evening Post: Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year …
The moral case for sustainability
Broadcast on 2CH, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. A recent study has found that encouraging people to adopt ecologically sustainable behaviours based on the moral rather than economic case may be more effective. The Guardian newspaper reports that in an experiment conducted at a Dutch petrol station, researchers compared two messages aimed at persuading people to get …
Why theological method matters
Summary of Brian Harris, "Why method matters: Insights from the theological method of Stanley J. Grenz," Crucible 2 (1), Nov 2009. Available here. Harris claims that evangelical Christians often view theological method as "the death of spiritual passion, and at best, a dangerous enterprise."[1] Similarly, Grenz and Franke note that while Theologians in mainline theological …
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