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#914 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. The debate on gay marriage has gone rather placid in recent months. Or so I thought, until leading Tasmanian “marriage equality” campaigner, Rodney Croome, this week accused me of laying claim to a religious heritage of persecution, and resistance to that persecution, while at the same time … Continue reading
#913 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. The latest National Church Life Survey, taken in 2011, included questions on disability for church leaders and attenders. Leaders were asked, for example, how their church catered for disability-related needs, and attenders were asked whether they considered their church to be inclusive of disability. One of … Continue reading
#912 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. Iraqi Christians have come under fire, and many have fled their homes, as a campaign by Islamic militants this week spilled over from Syria into Iraq’s northern cities. Local reports suggest soldiers, police and government officials captured by militants have been summarily executed, as have some … Continue reading
#911 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. Tasmania’s Anglican Bishop, John Harrower, and CEO of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce, Ms Misha Coleman, have proposed that Tasmania could process asylum seekers in the community, instead of the billions of dollars being wasted on offshore detention facilities. The proposal attracted strong interest from local, … Continue reading
#910 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. The NSW Council of Churches supports calls by the Victorian Inter-Church Gambling Taskforce for a ban on sports betting advertising after the latest offensive marketing campaign stunt. “Sportsbet has demonstrated again the depths they are willing to sink to in the pursuit of profits,” Taskforce Chair Dr … Continue reading
#909 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. Writing in Christianity Today magazine, Rachel Marie Stone recalls something that Christian apologist and children’s fantasy author C.S. Lewis once said: Once about every hundred years some wiseacre gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale. It is accused of giving [children] a false impression … Continue reading
#908 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. Queensland University of Technology researcher Paula Dootson has embarked on a study to discover how Australian consumers rank acceptable, questionable, and unacceptable behaviour. According to her study of more than 300 Australian consumers, as reported in The Brisbane Times, Ms Dootson said about 50 per cent … Continue reading
#907 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. Australian university researchers have found that the more money spent per capita on pokies in a venue, the higher the rate of gambling problems in that venue. The finding, recently published in the journal Addiction, confirms that moves to increases gambling losses are likely to be at the expense of … Continue reading
#906 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 8 Jun 2014. The world was shocked to learn this week of the discovery of the bodies of some 800 children in a septic tank at a former Irish Catholic home for unwed mothers. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of so-called “fallen women” and their children passed through the … Continue reading
#905 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 8 Jun 2014. According to new Family Planning data, NSW teenagers have the highest abortion rates in the country, with more teens ending pregnancies than choosing to become parents. Estimates suggest that there were 4053 abortions among NSW teens aged 15-19 in 2009, roughly double the number in Victoria, Tasmania … Continue reading
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