The major parties have failed us in key policy areas, especially immigration, and our best hope is ‘a thorough mix-up’ of winners on July 2nd.
Category Archives: Theology
Seven Christian responses to gay marriage
Endeavouring to understand and appreciate the full spectrum of views is an important preliminary step in carefully evaluating your own.
Link highlights – Election 2016
A selection of articles and resources from Christian and mainstream media, blogs and other outlets on the 2016 Federal Elections.
Link highlights – May 2016
Highlights of links to online news and opinion pieces for May 1st to June 6th.
Former ABC head warns Christians against retreat into comfortable media worlds
Eternity News reports on former ABC Mark Scott’s address at the 2016 Work & Faith Award.
Faith in the election
Ultimately, for the Christian, the core of voting means voting for the party that will do the most for those who are most disadvantaged in the world, not the party that will do the most for ourselves.
Political Questions that Can’t be Answered by our Publicly Funded Public Relations Firms
We have seen genuine political parties give way to the rise of ‘public relations firms’, threatening to undermine respect for public governance, for state-crafting,
Death
This exploration of Daniel Akst’s ‘Facing Up to Death,’ a review of Katie Roiphe’s The Violet Hour, looks at how ‘religion’ is experienced by everyday people as they face death.
Response to letter in The Age about voluntary euthanasia in Oregon
Suicide rates have not fallen, but in fact increased, since the introduction of ‘assisted dying’ in Oregon, USA. Therefore the claim that legalising assisted dying might reduce the suicide rate in Australia is spurious.
Victorian Late-Term Abortion Legislation
A response for discussion ahead of this week’s vote in the Victorian Parliament on Late-Term Abortions.