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Make a Difference (A Practical Guide to Lobbying) by Guy Barnett
Senator Guy Barnett is an ideal person to write a ‘how to’ manual on lobbying Australian governments. He’s done it professionally (as a lawyer, operating out of Melbourne and Washington DC, and later running a government and public affairs business based in Hobart and Canberra). And as a Federal Liberal senator since 2002 he’s been […]
The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
What’s this strange story in Luke 16 really about? In a brilliant article on The Rich Man and Lazarus by Australian theologian Thorvald Lorenzen (Expository Times 1975 – http://ext.sagepub.com/content/87/2/39.full.pdf or go to a theological library for a free view) asks: ‘What was the rich man’s sin? Not that he was rich! Not that he had […]
UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause
November 22, 2010 Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people were once again subject to the whims of homophobia and religious and cultural extremism this week, thanks to a United Nations vote that removed ¢â‚¬Å“sexual orientation ¢â‚¬ from a resolution that protects people from arbitrary executions. In other words, the UN General Assembly this week voted to […]
Buddhism and Violence
*Sightings* 11/22/2010 * Buddhism and Violence* – Martin E. Marty Buddhism and Islam came off as the two ¢â‚¬Å“faith communities ¢â‚¬ to whom other Americans feel least warm, according to a Faith Matters survey of 2007. Robert Putnam and David Campbell ponder this in *American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, *which *Sightings* has visited […]
Gay Marriage – an oxymoron?
If marriage is so good, why not invite everyone in? November 21, 2010 IT DIDN’T take much for a wave of pro-gay marriage sentiment to echo through the socially liberal wing of the Labor Party. A Greens motion that politicians should ”gauge their constituents’ views” on gay marriage (which you’d have thought was their job […]
What’s Left?
November 20, 2010 Going Against the Grain Rejected. Muted. Belittled. Disrespected. Shamed. Persecuted. Ignored. Ridiculed. Shunned. Severed relationships. Loneliness. Isolated. Shut out. Not heard. Invalidated. These words describe what it’s like when you find yourself not relating to the Republican Christian Right but still consider yourself a Christian. It’s what happens when you don’t conform […]
Pray for the World 22 November 2010
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * SUU KYI’S RELEASE STIRS GUARDED HOPE AMONG BURMA’S CHRISTIANS * FIRST WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY IN PAKISTAN * THE MORAL AND POLITICAL TIDE BEGINS TO TURN IN AMERICA * DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE SUDAN – SUNDAY 5th DECEMBER 2010 * GERMAN DOCTOR-NUN BRINGS RELIEF AND HOPE TO […]
Humanity has one minute left (David Suzuki)
David Suzuki: Legacy Tour Posted on October 25, 2010 According to David Suzuki last night at the Opera House, humanity is in the 59th minute, and we ¢â‚¬â„¢re on a suicidal path of economic growth. He gives us an example from science ¢â‚¬“ a test tube full of bacteria ¢â‚¬“ to illustrate the non-negotiable laws of […]
Google: its future is your future
Google ‘more than a search engine’ Broadcast: 21/11/2010 ALAN KOHLER, PRESENTER: Information may not be knowledge, as Albert Einstein put it, but it certainly is powerful. And as Google has worked out, not a bad little earner as well. Google started as a search engine, but thanks to the incredible success of its business model […]
Jews and Catholics :-)
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews in Italy had to convert to Catholicism or leave. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal. He’d have a debate with a religious leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could stay in Italy; […]
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