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Interview: Reverend Daniel Willis

Christian Today Australia recently caught up with Daniel Willis, the director and secretary of the Australian Christian Heritage Foundation, to elicit his feedback on the recent Christian forum organised by the Australian Christian Lobby and he also talked about the explosive issue of Christian and Politics. .

  • Comment on CDP's proposal to halt Muslim immigration

    I think it is disappointing to hear calls for the halting of immigration for any group of people. Since the scrapping of the White Australia policy in 1966 Australia has had an open door policy to immigration regardless of racial origins and religious beliefs.

  • The continuing missionary imperative

    The Mission of the church is local and international, historic and contemporary, and it is still valid. The Great Commission given by Jesus has never been revoked. In the closing verses of Matthew, we read one version of the Great Commission, which is recorded by each of the gospel writers, is repeated in the Acts of the Apostles, and reiterated by the Apostle Paul. Matt 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:46-49; John 20:21-22; Acts 1:8; 26:13-18.

  • The Australian Christian political lobby comes of age

    On 9 August Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd courted the Christian vote in a two-hour televised event organised by the Australian Christian Lobby. Both leaders made election-style speeches and answered questions from church leaders during a webcast streamed to an estimated 100,000 Christians in churches and church halls around the country. The event, described by one journalist as the unofficial launch of the 2007 election campaign, cements the reputation of the ACL

  • Art gallery to incorporate conference rooms

    Well-Being Australia is delighted that the ' Basil Sellers Art Gallery ' in Moruya on the New South Wales south coast is to incorporate conference rooms with the planned relocation adjacent to 'Basil Sellers House'.

  • Abortion is well and truly back on the agenda in Victoria

    The situation in Victoria is that while the offence of unlawful abortion in relation to procuring a woman's miscarriage is covered in the Crimes Act, there is also a common law ruling by former Supreme Court Justice Menhennit, which allows abortions if a woman\'s mental or physical health will be harmed by her pregnancy. Whilst meant to be restrictive when introduced in 1969, this ruling has allowed unlimited access to abortion with 20,000 occurring each year in Victoria including on average 100

  • No, We Do Not Worship the Same God

    In a predominantly secular culture, theological distinctions are easily lost. Indeed, they are seen as irrelevant altogether, not only for secularists, but for many believers overly influenced by secularism. Thus it may seem like a petty scrabble as to whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. But it a vitally important issue, for at least two reasons.

  • Lateral Outcomes Encouraged

    The national board of Well-Being Australia, who met over the weekend of 18-19th August in Moruya on the New South Wales south coast, has endorsed a philosophy of encouraging the practical 'outcomes' of lateral thinking, rather than stating a theory or philosophy that underpins these outcomes.

  • John Stott's Final Sermon: The Model – Becoming More Like Christ

    Dr John Stott\'s final sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention 17 July 2007.

  • John and Mal's excellent emergency

    On 21 June Prime Minister John Howard, along with the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, announced that Australia was in the grip of a "national emergency" on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. The crisis was brought to light by the release on 15 June of a report, Little Children Are Sacred, arising from a Northern Territory government Inquiry headed by two eminent Australians, Rex Wild and Pat Anderson. This is the latest in a series of reports document

  • The Man & The Story Behind Amazing Grace (pt 2)

    Mother and Son - Perhaps the saying 'Behind every great man there is a great woman' should be expanded to 'Behind every great man there are two great women: his mother and his wife.' This is certainly true in the case of John Newton.

  • Uncles and Aunts

    Mark Tronson chairman of Well-Being Australia , who has been involved in Australian folklore research and oral history for 23 years, claims that the terms 'Uncle and Aunt' have a broader application than blood relatives. Australians of his generation often called older family friends by these names as a mark of respect, and these people have consistently played a mentor role for younger Australians over two centuries.