Our ability to manipulate the unborn human has created unprecedented ethical problems.

In this recent article Megan Best gives an updated assessment of stem cell research. Our recently acquired ability to manipulate the unborn human has created ethical problems which have no precedent.  Medical technologies are developing quickly, and legislation to allow an expansion of the opportunities available to our scientists is regularly before the

An article on economic theory and marriage in light of the Christian worldview.

Donald Hay and Gordon Menzies compare economic and biblical covenant descriptions of what marriage is in this article.

(See PDF for complete article.)

Files: hay-menzies-economists-christians-and-the-marriage-wars.pdf

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Nicole Starling reviews what has been an influential book for her family.

Noël Piper’s, Treasuring God in Our Traditions (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003). The book considers at a very practical level the development of Christian family traditions. In the context of an avowedly post-Christian society, ‘family traditions’ have a function that is more critical than ever before, both within our families and in our mission to the wider society.

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Aligning biblical wisdom and research.

In this article Trevor Cairney considers how closely research evidence and biblical wisdom are aligned and concludes that there is much that they have in common.

Files: cairney-the-role-of-fathers.pdf

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In his autobiography, the Australian political intellectual explores his attitude to death, punishment and the hope of resurrection.

Brilliant writers of the last hundred years tended to spend their lives wrestling with Christianity. Samuel Beckett obsessed over the promises of Christ in plays such as Waiting For Godot. D.H. Lawrence was gripped by the Bible and attempted to re-read into it a pagan spirituality. C.S. Lewis was hunted down by the

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On 20 April 2007, CASE ran a workshop for health workers, theologians, ethicists and church workers on the topic of ‘Sexuality and the Christian Worldview’.

The conference programme included:

• Greg Clarke speaking on: ‘Sex in the Bible’

• Grenville Kent speaking on: ‘Song of Solomon’

• ‘Sexual orientation-state of research’ with panelists: Amelia Haines, Patricia Weerakoon and Joe Beam

• Uwemedimo Uko Esiet speaking on: ‘Responding to AIDS in Africa—A

How should a Christian relate to Australian society?

The 2006 Michael Orpwood Lecture, delivered at Katoomba, 30 September 2006.

The irony has not been lost on me that we are holding a lecture about being a Christian in Australian society during a conference that is held on the weekend most sacred to many Australians—footy grand finals weekend.

Whether this was a deliberate move by the organisers to emphasise the distance between Christians and

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

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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Why the Christian outlook on families is much more than "joining with the Force"

Ironically, the people in this country who most revere that mother-and-child bond are fundamentalist Christians, who make huge sacrifices so that moms can stay home with their children. Many of them home-school their children, because they’re convinced that mothers are the best teachers of children and that the public school system in America immerses kids in cultures