Book Review: Being the Bad Guys by Stephen McAlpine
I became a Christian in year 11 of high school. At the time—the early ’90s—the typical response from my non-Christian friends was a shrug of the shoulders…
I became a Christian in year 11 of high school. At the time—the early ’90s—the typical response from my non-Christian friends was a shrug of the shoulders…
The voices that receive most media attention are often the loudest and most schismatic. Programs like the ABC’s Q&A often find popularity by providing oxygen to controversies so that panel discussions look more like a Saturday afternoon football match between two local rival clubs. Yet it doesn’t have to be like that. On a cold Tuesday evening in Melbourne, a diverse crowd gathered at Mentone Baptist Church, to hear Mr Tim Wilson MHR and Rev Dr Michael Bird – speakers, who hold very different views of God and of the world – come together to talk about “Freedom of Speech in Australia.” Hot Topic, Cool Tempers...
“Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them?” From the Delphic hamlet that is The Australian, Greg Sheridan has given Australian Churches an oracle. According to Sheridan, Australia’s Christian churches are in crisis, on the brink of complete strategic irrelevance. It’s not clear they recognise the mortal depth of their problems. The churches need a new approach to their interaction with politics and the public debate, and to keeping themselves relevant in a post-Christian Australian society. The churches cannot recognise and...