by Doug Hynd | Aug 9, 2022 | Commentary
LAMENT BY CHRISTIANS in response to the emerging reality of post-Christendom in Australia has extended along a spectrum from doom laden invocations of the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, to a grouchy stoic muttering of “we’ll all be rooned.”...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 4, 2022 | Commentary
. PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT OF POLITICS often say that for the UK, the NHS is like a religion – by which they mean that the NHS is something in which the population has an irrational and outdated belief. They may not openly call for the privatisation or abolition of...
by Savitri Hensman | Jul 28, 2022 | Commentary
FAITH COMMUNITIES often make a valuable contribution to society. And opposing racism is an important aspect of acting justly. However it is important to be on guard against attempts – under the guise of respecting religious belief and opposing racism – to block the...
by Jill Segger | Jul 9, 2022 | Commentary
COMMENT CAN HAVE A VERY SHORT SHELF LIFE. When change begins in politics, it has a way of accelerating very quickly and what began as a small trickle may rapidly turn into a torrent. The upheaval in Westminster which began four days ago is a reminder that those of us...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jul 7, 2022 | Commentary
AMIDST ALL THE WESTMINSTER DRAMA, a brief but extraordinary interview may go largely unnoticed and unremarked. But it contained a dire warning which should be heard and acted upon urgently. Paul Drechsler is a former Chair of the CBI, and now Chair of the...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 25, 2022 | Commentary
WHEN THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY condemned the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, a Conservative MP complained that it could make Conservative churchgoers, “feel alienated and unwelcome.” The Archbishop did not offer to dilute one of the key...
