Reflections on the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution.
Category Archives: Culture
Sentimentalism: Why the Campaign to Change the Legal Definition of Marriage Isn’t Going Away
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
Book Review: Creation Untamed, by Terence E. Fretheim
Quite simply, this is one of the most profound books I have ever read. In a world where we are seeing a plethora of natural disasters, many of which are the type forecast by climate scientists to be what we can expect more of in the future, Fretheim’s excellent volume is timely indeed.
The Dhimma Time Warp Returns for the Copts of Egypt
In recent weeks a series of incidents in Egypt give evidence that, post-Mubarak, the Copts are being pressured to assume the time-warped status of dhimmis, a captive people in their own native lands, whose status is to be tightly circumscribed by traditional sharia law.
Will Participating in Democracy Moderate the Muslim Brotherhood?
Mark Durie, a member of the ETHOS Islam Think Tank, reflects on the relationship between popular movements for democracy in the Middle East and the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’
We’re All Boat People: A Biblical View of Refugees
Gordon Preece reflects on our identity as ‘boat people’, both in a biblical sense and historically in Australia
Mission 9 to 5: Contrasting & Complimenting Flavours of the Lausanne Congress on Work
Gordon Preece looks at tensions in the Lausanne movement and Covenant and their wrestling with the relationship between evangelism and social concern play out with particular to mission at work in the ‘9 to 5 window’.
It is Not Only Humans that Matter to God
Scripture supports the view that care for creation is an act of worship, argues Meteorologist Mick Pope of our Ethos environment think tank.
Faith and Community – last 4 issues
Here are the last four issues of Faith and Community, EA public theology’s publication sent out 3 times per year. Not all of these were distributed in this last year by email. You can read through them here by clinking on the links below. For more information, contact Ian Packer at ian@ea.org.au
The Mystery of Suffering
Richard Shumack of the ETHOS Islam think tank compares Biblical and Qur’anic visions of God and evil in the light of the floods in Pakistan