'Beyond Devastated': Anglican report shows high rate of violence towards partners
This week we received statistical confirmation for a reality that many of us already knew: intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by Anglicans at the same rate or higher than the wider Australian community
Christians must look past left and right (Eternity)
It’s not that I think there should be only one unified Christian voice in the public square. The problem is that our voices are getting so tediously predictable. I’m on the Left, so I pick the bits of the Bible that make Jesus sound like pre-selection candidate for an inner-city Greens seat. I’m on the Right, so I cycle through my playlist of social conservatism’s greatest hits: sex, bioethics and religious freedom. All important issues. But is the Christian’s calling really to sit on the sidelines waving weird spiritual banners for our favourite team?
Why we keep disagreeing on the Bible
“So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This is what Abraham Lincoln reportedly said on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Published in 1852, Stowe’s novel might not be solely responsible for the American Civil War, but it certainly roused many Christians in the north to the intolerable suffering of slaves in the south.
The man who taught Australia to read the Bible
If you read the Bible as “one big story” it’s likely you owe that largely to Donald Robinson, a former Anglican archbishop of Sydney who died last week aged 95. Australian Christians more than most have a ‘big picture’ view of the good book and Robinson was key to giving Christianity in our land – not just Anglicans – that special characteristic. Andrew Judd, a Bible scholar at the start of his career, remembers his grandfather for Eternity.