In our visual learning culture, catechesis is an increasingly strange and foreign idea; its slow and oral work runs deeply counter to the spirit of our times. Charles Ringma’s pocket catechism seeks to re-centre our minds on deep and time-tested Christian truths.
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Australian War Hunger
Can AUKUS and an Australian fleet of nuclear subs give us the ‘Peace and safety’ we hope for?
Dawn Vigils in Lockdown… but it’s not Resurrection Sunday
Christians have not been very creative when it comes to Easter in a time of pandemic. On Anzac Day, however, we are seeing wide scale innovative liturgical alternatives across the nation. Why?
Greta Thunberg and prophetic utterance
There were three kinds of responses to Greta Thunberg’s UN speech on climate change. But none of these responses seem appropriate. What should our response be?
Oxi and Nai: What the Greek Crisis Tells Us about Financial Power and Politics
Malcolm Fraser, the Last Statesman
A critical response to Nick Jensen’s “Christians and Principles of Civil Disobedience”
Mr Jensen does not make any serious attempt to address the substantive moral issue that the LMAW campaign is concerned with, but is primarily concerned with formal procedural matters concerning what type of civil disobedience is consistent with upholding just laws. A ‘pro-Christendom’ Conservative political theology is going to feel uncomfortable with just about any sort of religiously motivated act of civil disobedience.