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#1107 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 August 2015 Former Australian of the year and two-time Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes is a sporting champion who should unite rather than divide us. Yet the Indigenous athlete is repeatedly booed by spectators and slammed by media commentators, raising accusations of racism. The Race Discrimination Commissioner has labelled … Continue reading
#1106 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 August 2015 The Presbyterian Church in NSW voted recently to ask its General Assembly of Australia to withdraw the whole Church from the Marriage Act if marriage is redefined to include same sex couples, on the ground that such a change would “corrupt a good gift of God … Continue reading
#1105 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 26 July 2015 It’s not often you get to celebrate a 175th birthday, but that’s what took place recently at St Mary Magdalene Anglican Church at St Marys in western Sydney. Modelled after the family church of the third Governor of NSW, Captain Philip Gidely King, in Cornwall, and built … Continue reading
#1104 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 26 July 2015 In the debate on marriage reform, one recent contribution especially caught my eye, an article by the pastor of Melbourne’s Bayside Church, Rob Buckingham, who says while the current legal definition of marriage reflects the biblical teaching, the church doesn’t own marriage. He says: Predictions of … Continue reading
#1103 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 26 July 2015 Who’s the most valuable person in a football club? Former Australian Rules footballer Warren Tredrea, who played for Port Adelaide, wrote a great piece for The Advertiser last week, saying, “in tough times there is no-one more valuable than a trusted and well-respected chaplain.” What separates … Continue reading
#1102 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 19 July 2015 According to a paper published by two research institutes at the London School of Economics ahead of a major climate summit in Paris this December, the economic benefits of tackling climate change by cutting carbon emissions far outweigh the costs. The key benefits include new jobs, … Continue reading
#1101 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 19 July 2015 The issue of abortion is one of those thorny issues where personal morality, public policy and religious dogma perennially collide. And Christians as well as others remain divided over whether and on what grounds abortion should be permitted. A National Church Life Survey of Catholic, Anglican and … Continue reading
#1100 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 19 July 2015 As a child I was taught that a parable is “an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.” It’s a definition I haven’t forgotten, and as a minister of religion I’m familiar with many of the parables Jesus told. So I was intrigued to see, in this … Continue reading
#1099 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 12 July 2015. Historians occasionally refer to “American exceptionalism,” the idea that the United States is inherently different from other nations, and plays a unique progressive role in human history. A survey by LifeWay Research confirms a religious dimension to this exceptionalism: most Americans appear to believe God has … Continue reading
#1098 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 12 July 2015. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its fourth four-year “general social survey” of 13,000 households, taken in 2014. The survey measured the “subjective wellbeing” of respondents by asking them to assess their overall satisfaction with life on a scale of nought to ten. The average … Continue reading
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