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Sermon by Bob Smith based on John 5:1-15 Scattered across the world are certain places reputed to be centres of healing, to which people suffering various ailments go on pilgrimage hoping to be cured. The most famous is Lourdes in France. But there are many others, including a Catholic church I once visited in New … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 7 July 2013. As the federal election looms, and the boats carrying asylum seekers continue to come, here’s a prayer for all Australians: Almighty God, forgive us when we fail to recognise the right of the other person to be different, and to defend the vulnerable and voiceless, and to … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 7 July 2013. Revelations that soldiers collected and distributed offensive materials demeaning women has shaken the Australian Defence Force, coming on the back of a judicial inquiry into widespread sexual abuse across the ADF. Writing in Online Opinion, former soldier Mike Bird says most ADF personnel are decent, fair-minded people, but … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 7 July 2013. A development economist has found that child sponsorship is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and change the world. Writing in the Journal of Political Economy, University of San Francisco development economist Bruce Wydick reports the findings of a major study of child sponsorship … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 7 July 2013. The increase of boat arrivals of asylum seekers, and the political debate on immigration policy, prompted the establishment of an Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce earlier this year. It is good to finally have the churches speaking with one voice on this controversial issue. The Taskforce supports Christians … Continue reading
Sermon by Steve Cooper based on Habakkuk 1:12-13. Good morning! A few years ago I enjoyed watching the movie The Remains of the Day. The main actor is Anthony Hopkins, who plays the role of an emotionally repressed butler in an English country house in the 1930s. He falls gradually in love with the housekeeper, … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 June 2013. According to Mohabat News, which reports on news of Christians in Iran, six Iranian converts to Christianity have been convicted of crimes related to their membership in a house church since the recent Presidential elections. Four men were found guilty of attending a house church, spreading Christianity, having … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 June 2013. In Sydney recently, the Dalai Lama claimed that secular ethics was best placed to assist the “moral crisis” facing the world’s people. It’s too hard to choose which religion has the right ethics, so it’s better to go with the easy option and choose secular ethics. What the Dalai … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 June 2013. Last Sunday a special commemoration service was held at St Barnabas’ Anglican Church, Broadway, to honour those who have lost their lives at sea, in particular the scores of asylum seekers who drowned when their boats sank off Christmas Island earlier this month, and whose bodies were … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 June 2013. The British Catholic Herald reports that Laura Keynes, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, has become a Christian. The daughter of an atheist father and a Buddhist mother, she was baptised Catholic but drifted into agnosticism in her teens and “away from any contact with … Continue reading
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