When the Lord answers our daily prayer for this day’s bread, are we going to pray this prayer for those who do not have enough to eat and those who have to eat from rewards gained under oppression?

This well-crafted book is for young people making the transition across ‘the blurry cusp from school and life after school’. Parker’s aim is to encourage a creative, bold and careful response to the culture we live in, not just by students, teachers and parents, but also by Christian schools.

We have seen genuine political parties give way to the rise of ‘public relations firms’, threatening to undermine respect for public governance, for state-crafting,

It is Jesus, Christians are privileged to confess, who is coming to establish His Kingdom, on earth as it is in heaven. With all our neighbours, we live as the bearers of His image. Despite continual compromise and our total failure to live in obedience to His rule, we are still called to give cogent expression to this Image in how we serve our neighbours with justice. Among all the many things we are called to do in this life, it is a privilege to give political expression to the patience and mercy of the Lord in our lives as citizens.

Nurturing Justice 13 (2011) June 21st – Comments on debates over the advocacy for same-sex marriage – with links to earlier articles on substantive theo-political issues around this debate

In the run up to the election, ‘Nurturing Justice’ has occasionally tried to identify some key questions to ask. Now the election is over and we still don’t know the outcome as far as which parties will form the government. So it is time to “nurture justice” in our own thinking about how we “do politics”. How do we understand the nature and limits of party discipline, conscience votes, the representative’s loyalty to electors as well as the elector’s ongoing trust in our political system. How indeed can Christian people contribute as citizens to this polity to ensure that Government proceeds along the way of Shalom?

Below is the latest edition of Nurturing Justice [7 2010]. Past editions of NJ can be found here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bcwearne/nj.htm