Endnotes for Zadok Paper S260: ‘From Panda to Dragon? China and the West’s Relationship Goes South’, Zadok Perspectives and Papers 155 (Winter 2022), 14-16.
Category Archives: Culture
Remembering Ron Sider
We pay tribute to Ron Sider, whose writings revolutionised Christian perspectives on poverty and helped develop the radical discipleship and Evangelical justice movements.
…Faith and hopes…
I’d like a sunburnt Australia.
Book review: Transforming Vocation
This book is a welcome contribution to the sparse field of faith and work in Australia. Yet it presents a benign view of work, and there is scope to explore the role of God’s judgement as a transforming mercy as we confront the daily challenges of exploitation in a sinful world.
Book review: To Right Every Wrong: The Making and Unmaking of One Improbable Minor Prophet
What is required to produce an improbable minor prophet? Dave Andrews reflects candidly on his life and vocation, the danger of putting people on pedestals (as we’ve seen so often recently), and above all the source of his strength – the knowledge that he is ‘much loved’.
Stained Glass Manna
For all those in part apart:
This is my body, broken for you…
Public Speaking
As believers scattered in the public square, we are engaged in mutual encounter, searching together, but across tribal lines, for transcendent truth. The latest issue of Zadok on ‘Public Speaking’ explored what this engagement looks like in 21st Century Australia.
An Open Letter to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Moscow
An appeal by the former General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Small mercies …
A devastated township causes reflective thinking.
Book Review of Threescore + Ten: Passing the Use-By Date
With a gentle humour, John Kidson shares his passionate involvement in life in this whimsical, playful and humorous autobiography with a difference.