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  • 13 Jun 2011
    Bonhoeffer offers clues to being church in ‘religionless’ eastern Germany

    A widespread “everyday atheism” requires a new understanding of what it means to be the church, according to Berlin theologian Dr Wolf Krötke.

  • 3 Nov 2010
    Anglican Covenant ignores the problem of evil

    Contrary to the impression given by the Anglican Covenant, faithfulness to Christ crucified means being willing, if necessary, to refuse to conform, and instead to take a stand alongside One who was “numbered with the transgressors”, says Savi Hensman. Communion is misconstrued when it is translated as imposed institutional conformity.

  • 23 Jun 2010
    Christian peacemakers' victory in Australia inspires nonviolence activists

    Peace activists in Australia are continuing to put their bodies on the line in opposing their country's military involvement in Afghanistan, after Christian peacemakers scored an important moral victory.

  • 2 Apr 2010
    'Bonhoeffer Four' Christian peace activists block Australian military base

    A group of peace activists inspired by the example of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer have successfully infiltrated a secret Australian military base on Swan Island.

  • 28 Jun 2009
    Cultivating tough gratitude

    Public life demands ‘tough’ corporate attributes rather than what it labels ‘soft’ personal ones – like love and gratitude. Simon Barrow argues that the communal cultivation of loving relation is needed to help redirect the official anonymity of the social order.

  • 13 Oct 2008
    German Protestants commemorate Anglican bishop of reconciliation

    Protestants in Germany are recalling the life of George K. A. Bell, an Anglican bishop who opposed the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler but also sharply criticised indiscriminate bombing of German cities during the Second World War.

  • 29 Aug 2008
    Examining fundamentalism in Europe

    A pioneer in the global study of the phenomenon of fundamentalism, commentator and scholar Martin E. Marty reflects on the changing patterns of religious life as they have impacted Europe recently.

  • 26 Jun 2008
    Idolatry, the American way?

    Have many American Christians forgotten the distinction between discipleship and partisanship, asks Martin E. marty, looking at some authors who unpack the complex relationship between Christian faith and political reality.

  • 20 Jun 2008
    A real agency of transformation

    'A love genuinely lived by a people joined to Christ for the sake of the world' is how Simon Barrow defines the mission of the church. It is about something more transformatory than projects or agencies alone, he says.

  • 25 Nov 2007
    Howard's end

    For those who know their E. M. Forster, this was the most obvious headline for the victory of Kevin Rudd in the Australian election. But a more theological gloss is perhaps needed.