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The Politics and Ethics of Jesus and Paul - Reading Guide 7 Jul 2013 | 12:45 pm
The Politics and Ethics of Jesus In an appendix to his 1795 work Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant makes this remark based on a saying of Jesus: Politics says, “Be ye wise as serpents”; morality add...
Resurrecting Real Hope 3 Mar 2013 | 06:38 pm
[I wrote this article when I first started work with Australian Evangelical Alliance as Director of Public Theology. It was before the appearance of Tom Wright's Surprised by Hope, a book which happil...
Human Scale and Human Pace: Thinking about Everyday Technology 25 Jun 2012 | 10:43 am
Gary Larson is probably my favourite cartoonist. He appeals to me because of his eye for the bizarre and the off-beat: from cows conscious that they are “without opposable thumbs” watching helplessly ...
Can We Be Good without God? 25 Feb 2012 | 03:06 pm
“Can we be good without God?” This is a question that exercises the minds of ‘apologists’ of all sorts, both theists and atheists. In my experience, it is always bound to draw the ire of the on-line b...
Mulling over Vocation - Prologue to a Theology of Calling 14 Sep 2011 | 02:14 pm
What might it mean to live an authentically human life? What might we mean by ‘authentic’ when asking such a question?[1] And what might it mean to ask such a question in the first place? Is there som...
Are We Having Fun Yet? Rest, Joy and Play in a World of Trouble 19 Apr 2011 | 10:08 pm
Christians generally don’t take much convincing that life is serious business. But what about the idea that life could be—or even should be—fun? Is that even a legitimate theological question? And who...
Reframing Rights Language 23 Feb 2011 | 12:46 am
The language of rights has become the predominant lingua franca of moral discourse in Western democratic regimes. Rights language is powerful language; indeed it is something of a ‘fighting creed’. At...
Remembering Our Primary Social Calling 3 Feb 2011 | 09:59 pm
In some form or another, most Australian Christians realise that their ethical and political convictions should bear the marks of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The rediscovery by many Christians that th...
A Call to Civility 2 Feb 2011 | 07:31 pm
When the Americans emerged from a mid-term election, it was with few surprises, not only in terms of result but regarding campaign style and character. It seems Americans have reached a point in polit...
Some thoughts on engaging politics as a Christian 23 Aug 2010 | 07:25 pm
Here’s a little outline of how I approach politics, how I decide which political party to vote for, and, more broadly, how I think about political matters as a Christian. I write this brief post - 1. ...
