Gambling on Good Friday
Heard Tim Costello (head of World Vision) on the radio this afternoon attacking the decision to allow TAB’s to open on Good Friday in New South Wales and Victoria. His argument was that it is important...
View ArticleAn Easter re-think on re-thinks
Every year there is the predictable call from some quarter to re-think the belief in a literal resurrection and start accepting that it’s really just a metaphor. This years effort comes from social...
View ArticleRugby League Sex Scandal and the Moral Zeitgeist
Philip Jensen has written a helpful article highlighting the hypocrisy in the way many people have reacted to the NRL sex scandal – not that the players weren’t wrong in the way they treated the poor...
View ArticleWould your ethics be different if you weren’t a Christian?
This is a question raised by Richard Dawkins and others in arguments about whether athiests have any good foundation for their ethics. The argument goes that Christian (or other religious people) say...
View ArticleThe Atheist faith
There’s a good article in the Online Opinion journal comparing the charitable and transforming impulse of Christianity with the lack of anything similar for atheism. I understand this is not a complete...
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