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Lectures on theology with Kevin Rudd
I was hoping Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's comments on Q&A Monday night would be forgotten and we could all pretend it didn't happen. Not because it wasn't important. It was. Rather because it isn't helpful. I'll explain in a moment. First, allow me to make a few comments on what happened. Why is this significant? There are several reasons this interchange was important. First, the Australian Prime Minister publicly ridiculed Christianity as a lie and
Election 2013: A Christian perspective on asylum seekers
ABC NewsRadio Drive host Glen Bartholomew interviewed the Roman Catholic Father Bob Maguire yesterday about his support of the Live Wire for Refugees 24-hour speak out at Federation Square in Melbourne today. Maguire argued that it is a Christian duty to welcome the stranger and compared illegal immigration in Australia to our failure to welcome Jewish refugees after the Holocaust. He also argued that the influx of refugees would be good for Australia. My goal
President Rudd?
On the night of 26 June, I was riveted to the TV screen just like most of you. I admit though that my interest in the (tragic) State of Origin II was dwarfed by my interest in what was happening in the halls of Parliament House that night. I spent most of the game groaning at the game and simultaneously trying to follow the political developments via Twitter, announcing each turn of events to those
Christians and war: The innocence of horror
War is hell. At least that's what those who've seen it say. If my vicarious experiences of war via Hollywood are anything resembling realistic, I'm inclined to agree. Many Christians over the years have considered themselves pacifists. I do not count myself among them. Still, there is something fundamentally broken about war. No other human dynamic is so perfectly tuned to bring out the worst—occasionally the best, but usually the worst—in human nature. I remember