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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
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 June 2013. By traditional standards, the first 100 days of the Pope Francis era have been unremarkable, according to John L. Allen Jr, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. Not much has happened. He has made some senior appointments, approved a few sainthood causes, and met some heads … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 June 2013. As the federal Senate this week overwhelmingly voted down another Greens bill seeking to normalise same sex marriage by the back door, DLP Senator John Madigan has reignited calls for a federal referendum on gay marriage. Senator Madigan said a referendum on the issue offered a chance … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 June 2013. The President of the NSW Council of Churches, the Reverend Dr Ross Clifford, has called on the Premier to consider raising the legal drinking age in NSW. “Alcohol continues to be the major drug of choice and no one wants prohibition. But in light of the continued … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 June 2013. Hundreds gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral on Friday June 14 to farewell Sydney Anglican Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen, after twelve years leading the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Known for his biblical and Reformed preaching, and his evangelical leadership within the worldwide Anglican Communion, Dr Jensen urged the … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 We have grown accustomed to calls for equal opportunity, racial equality, gender equality, and rightly so. But governments and courts are now faced with demands for “transsexual equality” – the notion that identifying a person as either male or female is a denial of their right not to … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 Responding to the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street three weeks ago, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has claimed that the religious ideology that inspired the horrific act is profoundly dangerous. He’s referring to Islam. In an opinion piece published in … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 According to Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, writing in The Spectator, Future intellectual historians will look back with wonder at the strange phenomenon of seemingly intelligent secularists in the 21st century believing that if they could show that the first chapters of Genesis are not literally true … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, wrote an extraordinary article in The Spectator yesterday, arguing that the so-called new atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, falsely believe that atheism will save the human race. They place their faith in science, but cannot explain morality. When asked, the new atheists … Continue reading
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