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An Evangelical Manifesto: A second opinion

Author, Simon.
Published, June 28, 2008.
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I should note that is not a response to Adam’s previous entry on the same topic. This is simply, as the title suggests, a second opinion of this document. “An Evangelical Manifesto” was penned earlier this year, with a two-fold purpose;
[T]o first address the confusions and corruptions that attend the term Evangelical in the United [...]

Different dog, different tricks: A word about the new Federal Government

Author, Simon.
Published, May 12, 2008.
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The change of government in Canberra has brought a marked change in rhetoric that has been stemming from Canberra. This is not overly suprising, I suppose. A change in government generally means a changed country. The stamp that the new Labor government has left is already significant. Rudd’s government has already made some big decisions, and [...]

An Evangelical Manifesto

Author, Adam.
Published, May 12, 2008.
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An Evangelical Manifesto is a recently published article by a group of professing evangelicals which seeks to redefine and reform evangelicalism in the face of its popular (mis)conceptions in the secular world.
It’s so refreshing to read a well-considered and balanced article from a group of evangelicals. I was expecting to read a bible-bashing self-righteous stab [...]

Social Justice is becoming a fad

Author, Simon.
Published, April 14, 2008.
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In observing Australian society, one must surely notice the surge in interest in social justice. People are truly beginning to sit up and take notice of the calls for ending world poverty. I don’t intend to summarise the ills of the third world, and the injustice which we, in the west, perpetrate whenever we go [...]