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

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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Ann Curthoys and John Docker base their 2006 book Is History Fiction? on two beliefs: their belief in truth and the search for truth and their belief that historians cannot declare that they have objectively established the truth about the past. As they state: ‘Our general argument is that the very doubleness of history - in the space between history as rigorous scrutiny of sources and history as part of the world of literary forms - gives it ample

Greg Clarke comments on Andrew Denton’s feature-length documentary, God on My Side.

Is God on your side, my side, no-one’s side, or everyone’s side?

And how can you tell? Visit America and find out, with the help of your favourite TV host, Andrew Denton!

The host of popular ABC TV talk show, Enough Rope, has produced a remarkable and entertaining documentary in which he explores this question through the eyes and mouths of participants at the

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With many societies confused about whether Christmas is, or should be, a Christian celebration, here are some suggested reasons why it really does matter what you think of Jesus at this time of year.

He’s too famous to ignore

As a celebrity, there isn’t anyone who comes close to Jesus. He is the ultimate rags to riches story. He was born in poverty to an unmarried mother, raised in a trade (carpentry, they say), but he struck everyone around him

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Mike takes a look at a book which traces the history of an idea—an idea concerning the course of human history in the light of biblical prophecy about the end times.

As the recent war in Lebanon was unfolding, BBC news noted the arrival of 3400 Christians in Washington for the specific purpose of lobbying the US government to support the state of Israel. The effort was planned long before the conflict between Israel and Lebanon erupted and formed

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Andrew Bain examines John Rawls’s idea of justice in a political society and shows how it’s not so just

John Rawls has been one of the most influential voices in discussion and debate about the shape of liberal democracy over the past 40 years. Best known for his two lengthiest works, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993), several of Rawls’s insights are, for most contributors to political discussion, so pervasive as to form

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Topping the nonfiction lists at present is Oxford Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Dawkins is up front about the purpose of his book: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down". The marketing team should have considered a warning label!

More than anything, The God Delusion is concerned with the psychological damage that religious belief

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Dr Greg Clarke gave a seminar on The Da Vinci Code in St Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney. You can purchase the audio CD from CASE for AUD $10. Contact Us

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In 2006 CASE ran a weekly lecture series on ‘Christianity and Contemporary thought’.

The topics covered were:

• stem cells

• the environment

• terrorism

• the future

• pick a Jesus

• natural theology

• science

• the economics of marriage

• revelation

• the Trinity

• saviours in film

Lecturers include Megan Best, Andrew Cameron, Greg Clarke, Larissa Johnson, Lewis Jones, Gordon Menzies, Byron Smith and Justine Toh.

Mp3 downloads of each week’s lecture are available