The nation has voted for the recognition of same-sex marriage, and the challenge in the coming days is to legislate it. Many Christians are calling for a raft of provisions that protect their right to discriminate. The principle that it is unlawful to discriminate against somebody on the grounds of...
This Country is Leading the Way on Refugees…and It’s Identity Will Surprise You
The truth is now plain to see. There were no hordes of refugees making their way to Australia
As the number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving to Australia by boat rose sharply in 2012 and 2013, the major political parties engendered a state of moral panic. The long-standing debate over push versus pull factors was resolved in favour of pull factors; that is, it was finally agreed...
The casualties of our pragmatism
The modern world was birthed in the ideal of freedom, eloquently expressed in the three-word slogan of the French Revolution – “liberty, equality, fraternity” – and the soaring rhetoric of the US Declaration of Independence that “We hold these truths to be self...
Why White, Middle Class Guys Like Me Struggle to Hear God
If the Bible is so clear, why do we keep getting it so wrong?
It is not about my view of sexual morality.
What my straight Christian friends need to know about my gay Christian friends.
Don’t fall for the fear-mongering.
One of the fears of many religious people have around marriage equality is that it will erode their freedom to practice their religion. How valid is this concern? My thesis is this: marriage equality will throw up questions about religious freedom, but they will not be new questions. As a society...