By seeing disability as gift not punishment, strength not weakness, we can more fully embrace those with disability – and learn, from their disability and our own, the beautiful simplicity of faith.

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for April 2017.

Section 18C should be amended to stamp out racial vilification while upholding freedom of speech even when people are insulted or offended. The bar should be set at the same level before the Human Rights Commission as it would be before the courts.

Women like the nameless ‘woman at the well’ prepare us to receive the astounding news that the saviour of the world will be seen not in a powerful male, but in a broken person upon a cross.

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for March 2017.

As we learn the way that God works – slow, delightful, surprising – we will learn how to work, and we will begin to experience work as a joy rather than a curse.

Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for February 2017.

God’s intention is for reproduction and nurture by mother and father. But we should welcome all – Straight and LGBTI – in the Church, and offer support to young people as they grapple with their sexuality.

Jesus died for the LGBTI community, too, and we can show the same love He showed by establishing dialogue, apologising, building bridges and coming alongside them for the long haul.