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Continue reading →: Re-monking the Church After ChristendomFor those interested in new monasticism, check out Stewart Murray Williams’s engaging summary of the Anabaptist tradition over at Sustainable Traditions which explores the ways ‘new monasticism’ is drawing on both Celtic Christianity and the Anabaptist tradition. “In the 16th century the Protestant Reformers rejected the two-tier Christianity that had developed during the…
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Continue reading →: Help your council to rediscover Christmas this yearParramatta Councillor Michael McDermott emailed me earlier today with the news that Parramatta City Council yesterday approved new banners for Christmas that actually reference Christmas! He's now asking you and me for help in sharing the news. It demonstrates that reverse discrimination against Christianity, in the name of political correctness, can be…
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Continue reading →: Can you be Calvinist and Pacifist?Reformed teaching is not where I’d normally look for a defence of Christian pacifism. More often I tip toe through the TULIPs and listen for the voices of the more radically reformed. And yet, surprise, surprise, it would appear that some at least find ample justification for peacemaking in the teachings of Calvin, without recourse…
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Continue reading →: Anti-Abortion ArtBut Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. (Luke 18:16) Above is a sample of some of the anti-abortion art I have started collecting. I’ve deliberately selected against…
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Continue reading →: The separation of church and partyThis week there has, unsurprisingly, been a lot of talk in Australia about whom Christians should vote for. Some have suggested Christians should vote socialist, given the commitment of Jesus to the poor. Others have suggested Christians should vote Tony Abbott, given Julia Gillard’s atheism. Others have suggested Christian Democrats…
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Continue reading →: Christian Democrat Allan Green evasive on the Millenium Development Goals?If you care about balanced Christian representation feel free to share this on. I had an interesting Facebook conversation this week with Allan Green, the CDP candidate for Greenway, where I asked him whether the Christian Democratic Party would support groups like Micah Challenge in pushing the major parties to meet their…
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Continue reading →: Are Liberal and Labour any different on abortion?This evening I was thinking further about the anti-Green scare campaign being targeted at Christian voters, particularly the claim that a vote for the Greens is a vote for abortion on demand. I find myself asking, don’t we already effectively have that now under the Labour government, and didn’t we…
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Continue reading →: Was Jesus a Marxist?A few things prompt me to ask this question. Firstly, the many pro-Socialist comments by my mate, Ian Shanahan, who I think could have given Stalin a run for his money. His comments prompt me to ask is socialism more Christlike than capitalism? Is democracy more Christlike than dictarorship? To what extent…
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Continue reading →: The politics of Christian artJust as we need to deconstruct texts, we also need to deconstruct images. This image features Emperor Alexius I Comnenus before Christ. Jesus is seated on the throne (indicating his lordship over the Emperor) with his right hand in a benediction gesture (indicating his blessing on the Emperor). The Emperor himself…
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Continue reading →: Should Christians vote for the Greens?In the last two weeks I’ve head a lot of viral propaganda against the Greens, suggesting they’re intrinsically unChristian. Personally, while I agree some of their policies are of concern, they have many policies I agree with, especially on the environmental front. I blanched at the conservative line that “many…
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