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Andrew Cameron & Lisa Watts
Published date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
By: Andrew Cameron & Lisa Watts
There’s more than one view on climate change among evangelicals.
"You can’t change the weather," we all used to say with a shrug, to make the point that some actions are well beyond the powers of puny humans. But a disagreement has opened up among U.S. evangelicals about the extent to which we can, or cannot, change the weather.
The purpose of this briefing is very limited. We simply want to outline the groups involved in this American Christian
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Are children welcome?
Published date: Sunday, June 18, 2006
By: Andrew Cameron
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In a paper to Christians in all manner of social positions—married, divorced, single, childless or parents—Andrew Cameron considers contemporary attitudes to children, from despair to hatred to worship and idolatry of family life.
Being dismissive to children
Contempt for children for children is not new. The old Law of the people of Israel, written over three thousand years ago, makes it clear that children have ever been subject to the
Published date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
By: Andrew Cameron
What do we mean by ‘free speech’?
‘Freedom’ is notoriously frustrating to do business with. When it is missing, we really notice its absence; but when we have it, we enjoy it often without even noticing. Nobody doesn’t want freedom, yet when we talk about it and celebrate it we can find, to our dismay, that entirely different kinds of freedom are being spoken of.
We can see from the biblical quotations above how highly it figures there. But even
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Published date: Friday, November 11, 2005
By: Andrew Cameron
In the inaugural Isaac Armitage lecture, Andrew Cameron considers what Christian education might look like in a pluralistic society.
The title of my talk, ‘Anglican Schooling in a Pluralistic Society’, could of course mean anything. But I want to talk about what Anglican schools are for, in a world where many people believe many different things. Let me assume at the outset that a church school has some sort of intention to ‘bless the world’
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Published date: Thursday, November 18, 2004
By: Andrew Cameron & Tracy Gordon
How does a Christian ethicist rate the Australian government’s performance on asylum seekers?
In April and May 2004, a row erupted in Australia between the officers of three courts, and a Federal Government Minister. At the centre of the dispute were five detained children. Then in May, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission presented a report on its enquiry into children in detention in Australia. The dispute and the report highlight
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How do Christians vote?
Published date: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
By: Andrew Cameron & Gordon Preece
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Two papers from the 2004 CASE Federal Election Forum are reproduced (in expanded form) here, to stimulate discussion among Christians and to give others some insight into the ways Christian people approach politics (188k PDF).
Elections: why bother? (Andrew Cameron)
There are several reasons why a Christian might feel that elections are not worth bothering with.
- We sometimes feel cynicism about human shortcomings, in comparison to God’s government
Published date: Friday, June 18, 2004
By: Andrew Cameron & Tracy Gordon
Is there any point exploring the unvisitable reaches of the universe?
At 6.07 a.m. GMT on Tuesday June 8th 2004, the planet Venus began a rare four-hour passage across the face of the sun. Half the world watched, through devices ranging from gigantic solar telescopes through to paper-and-pinhole viewers, or via the internet. This unusual event has not been seen since 1882, and the only forthcoming ‘transit’ any of us will live to see is not until
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Published date: Friday, June 18, 2004
By: Andrew Cameron & Tracy Gordon
New legislation in NSW may create headaches for religious education.
Discrimination is an ugly phenomenon. When someone misses out on a job, or is abused or not served in a shop because of their sexuality, or disability or gender, our society suffers. The dignity and humanity of those who are discriminated against suffers. The dignity and humanity of those who perpetrate the discrimination suffers. In fact, the dignity and humanity of us all
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The strange world of Peter Singer: a hitchhiker’s guide
Published date: Saturday, January 17, 2004
By: Andrew Cameron
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Peter Singer’s ethical framework certainly demands a response from Christians. Andrew Cameron examines a book that attempts to do just that.
Imagine a world where it is wrong to kill mice, but acceptable to not want children.
In this world, there are no butchers’ shops, fish markets or hamburgers.There are no beef cattle or battery hens, and restaurants are basically vegan. Sports shooting and fishing are illegal, for shooters and fishermen are
War and judgement
Published date: Wednesday, October 29, 2003
By: Andrew Cameron
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Oliver O’Donovan has written a sharp new book which reshapes Just War thinking in a Gulf War II environment.
Ernst Juenger fought in the final German offensive of World War I. Here is his account of his unit’s advance:
The great moment had come. The curtain of fire lifted from the front trenches. We stood up. With a mixture of feelings, evoked by bloodthirstiness, rage, and intoxication, we moved in step, ponderously but irresistibly toward the
