TEAR Australia, which along with Ethos is part of the Evangelical Alliance family, is renaming itself to Tearfund, reflecting its closer ties with the global Tearfund family’s fight against poverty and injustice.
Category Archives: Culture
Book Review: The Gospel According to Eve
Amanda Benckhuysen shows how the Adam and Eve story has been read with misogyny at times, gender essentialism and rigidity at others. But courageous women have found in it the grounds for their empowerment, and their shared divine image.
20-20 Vision
What is our role as ‘future leader-shapers’? What should be education’s aim? Surely we must go beyond giving hope of likely post-Covid employment after graduating.
Foreign Fields
I give thanks for my neighbours in adjacent principalities. I love the ingenuity of the kids on the corner who communicate with their neighbour kids at the apex of their elevation on the resident trampoline in each backyard.
Myths, Maths, Moths
Dead animals, homeless Bangladeshis and empty stomachs. A poem about storm and drought, flood and fire.
Letter to editor: ‘Climate Emergency NOW!’ (Zadok Perspectives 146, Autumn 2020)
Letter to the editor in response to the Zadok Autumn 2020 issue on climate change, including some thoughts on hope and helpful online resources.
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?
Avoiding the (frozen) Cold Shoulder?
After reluctantly going under the knife, the old granny psalm’ you never appreciate what you have until it’s gone’ can become more relevant than ever. A short medical story from pre-COVID times.
TV series review: The Test: A New Era For Australian Cricket
The Test is clearly intended as a shame-to-glory documentary. While the humanity and vulnerability of the participants is painfully on display, the opportunity for deeper reflection is never taken up.
A prayer for a time of pandemic
In these extraordinary times, God, give us compassion. Give us prayerfulness.