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Radical Indigenous Policy Under The 'Microscope'

Radical Indigenous Policy Under The 'Microscope'

The recent debate on Indigenous welfare has caused mixed reaction not just among Australian Christians but also on the broader community. I will attempt to explain the situation and find an action which we as Christians can do in the meantime. .

  • Convert the bomb throwers

    Stephen Lungu began life as the oldest son of a teenage mother, who was married off to a much older man by her parents while living in a black township near Salisbury, Zimbabwe. The marriage was violent and after many attempts, Stephen's mother eventually took the children and ran away from his father. Worse was to come. Stephen was three years old when his mother abandoned him as well. She had taken Stephen and his younger brother and sister to the local market, where she told Stephen to watch

  • The Delusion of Dawkins

    Roger Birch recently wrote to me a very long criticism of my views on fundamentalism dying with its older leaders. I will not try to argue his points, but I would note that of all the high profile leaders of fundamentalism in USA all are either dead or the four remaining are in their 70's. Here in Australia, I consider there are only two high profile leaders in fundamentalism, and both are in their 70's. The younger leaders coming on are evangelicals not traditional fundamentalists.

  • Safeguarding The Most Vulnerable: Our Children

    Welcome to the first Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) column for Christian Today Australia! In this month's column we look at some of the issues which have been a source of concern in recent weeks, as well as what can be done to address those concerns. The plight of children - including the unborn, those put up for adoption, and teenagers – is a feature of the column this month. It highlights the importance of putting pressure on both State and Federal Governments to protect those who are often

  • A review of The Secret

    OK, I confess. I finally broke down, abandoned all reason, and shelled out a lousy $30 to buy The Secret. Mind you, it was on sale, marked down from $35, so that was some consolation.

  • Cluster bombs and Australia 's national interest

    At the same time as the Australian government is engaged in international talks aimed at securing a global treaty banning cluster bombs, the Defence Department has claimed that limitations on the Australian Defence Force's capacity to acquire the weapons would be "detrimental to our national interest."

  • Megachurches: Some Personal Reflections

    I was told that at some point in the 1970s we at Blackburn Baptist Church (Melbourne) were one of three 'Megachurch Congregations' in Australia. The other two were AOG Pentecostal – at Mt. Gravatt in Queensland (Reg Klimionok, senior pastor) and Paradise in Adelaide (Andrew Evans). Others in the 1980's and 1990s outgrew those three churches (including Crossway, the new name for the Blackburn Baptist Church, with up to 4,000 attending weekly).

  • The Gospel As Public Truth

    The term 'public theology' is increasingly being used to make the point that biblical and theological principles have relevance outside the four walls of the church. Christian ministry to the world in which we live is more than ethics and evangelism. 'Public theology' covers social and cultural analysis, workplace ministry, political involvement and social ethics. It deals with the public relevance of Christian doctrine and aims at overcoming the privatized and domesticated view of faith which h

  • The Radiance of a Mother

    Mother's Day is a great time for all women who have children who are thoughtful.

  • Amazing Grace - The Movie & its outreach opportunities

    Unlike Dan Brown\'s Da Vinci Code, Michael Apted\'s \'Amazing Grace\' is a movie that you do not want to miss.

  • Christ means Change

    Easter keeps happening, even though we are now four weeks after Easter, every time someone is converted to Christ. The Christian life comes neither naturally nor normally. Little within us prepares us for the shock of moral regeneration that is occasioned by the work of Christ among us.

  • Longer Life, Better life, Eternal Life

    There was an interesting news item in today's Australian (and other media outlets) about a new scientific breakthrough which may add extra years to human life. According to the reports, a team at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California has found that a gene from a nematode worm is helping mice and other animals kept on a near starvation diet outlive well-fed ones by up to 40 per cent. The experiments now being conducted on mice may one day lead to the enhanced longevity.of humans