Category Archives: Culture
Book review: In the Midst of Much-Doing: Cultivating a Missional Spirituality
Listening to God, experiencing God, leads to a new way of seeing the world – a new vision that genuinely pays attention as only the contemplative can. Central to this is the need to listen to and learn from the voices of the poor.
Knowledge of Things Unseen
I’m just a low grade mystic / Kneeling beneath an empty sky
Growing Pains: Saul, Stephen and the scattered saints
Most Christian believers acknowledge Pentecost Sunday as the Church’s birthday. Luke’s treatise, the Acts of the Apostles, records the ‘birth’ and early experiences. In a previous issue John Kidson shared part of his ‘discovered’ journal of an apparent younger follower. The ‘discovery’ continues.
Growing Pains: Saul, Stephen and the scattered saints
Most Christian believers acknowledge Pentecost Sunday as the Church’s birthday. Luke’s treatise, the Acts of the Apostles, records the ‘birth’ and early experiences. In a previous issue John Kidson shared part of his ‘discovered’ journal of an apparent younger follower. The ‘discovery’ continues.
Religion and Social Policy Network response to The Statement from the Heart
RASP is humbled by the audacious generosity extended to the non-Indigenous Australian people through the forgiveness and renewed co-existence offered to us through the Statement. We commit our research to both listening and speaking truth.
Giving agency: A priest, a voiceless woman and hearing from God
Sometimes our acts of kindness – though well-intentioned – can do more damage than good. How can we do good in a way that respects the agency and voice of the other, especially those who seem more than most to be ‘acted upon’?
Book review: Abortion: A Personal Story, A Political Choice
Pauline Harmange tells her personal story of her own abortion together with her reflections on the social and political conditions that influence attitudes to abortion. But what of the moral arguments for and against abortion?
Learning from the Margins
I’ve learnt more from the marginalised, the stigmatised and the devalued than from any celebrity pastor. And it’s been humbling.
No Ordinary Election
Most Christian believers acknowledge Pentecost Sunday as the Church’s birthday. Luke’s treatise, the Acts of the Apostles, records the ‘birth’ and early experiences. Recently John Kidson ‘discovered’ the journal of an apparent younger follower.