Kevin Giles responds to Alan Cadwallader’s chapter in the recent book on homosexuality ‘Five Uneasy Pieces’

Kevin Giles responds to Alan Cadwallader’s chapter in the recent book on homosexuality ‘Five Uneasy Pieces’

Check out the peer-reviewed articles, ministry resources and book reviews free to view on-line at www.crucible.org.au.

Peter Corney interviews Gordon Preece at St Hilary’s, Kew, on the relationship between faith and reason, science and religion, and the critiques of the New Atheists

How is the new world of surveillance changing our society and what might it mean for protecting the dignity of people, particularly the more vulnerable, in our midst?

David O’Brien reviews John W. Wilson, Christianity alongside Islam (Brunswick, Victoria: Acorn Press, 2010)

On Wednesday, 19 October 2011, Andrew Sloane of Morling College gave the 2011 John Saunders Annual Lecture, presenting a biblical and theological framework that justifies advocacy as a legitimate component of Christian involvement in the world, calling on ‘power’ to be used justly for the poor and disadvantaged.

Why would restoring a church have caused Muslims to be enraged? Why would church renovations be a topic for a Friday sermon in a mosque? Why would Egyptian military stand by and do nothing? Or run over protestors? Why was the attack denied and covered over by the media? The answers are theological: they involve Islamic political theology.

“Let’s you and him fight!” The old comic-book trope is good advice for bystanders as Mark Galli’s God Wins counters Rob Bell and his book Love Wins. The two are respected evangelical leaders, an editor and a pastor, who attract headlines and readerships as they debate “Heaven, Hell” and the “Good News.”

It is Jesus, Christians are privileged to confess, who is coming to establish His Kingdom, on earth as it is in heaven. With all our neighbours, we live as the bearers of His image. Despite continual compromise and our total failure to live in obedience to His rule, we are still called to give cogent expression to this Image in how we serve our neighbours with justice. Among all the many things we are called to do in this life, it is a privilege to give political expression to the patience and mercy of the Lord in our lives as citizens.