If you have been watching the news here in Australia over the weekend you will have seen the political furore over the boatload of Asylum Seekers that caught fire and sunk, killing five people and injuring scores more. Seven and a half years on from the ‘Children overboard’ fiasco both sides of Federal politics have [...]

So you have a big decision to make, how do you do it? No doubt you rely on some sort of information. Today I got asked a question about my understanding of and involvement in social justice. (The interview went well, thanks for asking!) I talked about my interest in Fairtrade. I spoke about how [...]

I have to admit that the title of today’s post comes from a blog, which is a collaboration of Seeds and Manna Gum networks. Over the next few weeks a large number of Australian’s are going to receive Manna from Kevin (hehehe) in the form of government payments to low income earners, students and families. [...]

In some of my previous posts I have been reviewing John Cobb’s book. One of the issues he raises is the idea of the church’s response to the Feminist movement. I have been thinking about it for the past few days and thought I would give some of my own thoughts. Most people I talk [...]

I have been reflecting recently about lifestyle change. There are changes I would like to make and I have been thinking about those. I have also been thinking about the difficulty I see others and myself have in making changes to their lifestyle. So I thought I would outline some of the conscious lifestyle choices [...]

I have been asked to comment on the incident reported in The Age and the Herald Sun. A group of five 18 & 19 year old boys drove to the house of a man suffering from schizophrenia, threw petrol over him and his house and then set it all alight. As I reflect on the [...]

I have been thinking recently about Christian social justice in the post-Christendom world. Here is a definition of Christendom. In short Post-Christendom is where we find ourselves in Australia. The church can no longer dictate its morals and standards and expect society to live up to them. If Christians define their morality and by extension [...]

Today I got shafted by the system. Well, to be honest I don’t know if I have been shafted yet, but the potential is definitely there. The issue of when to fight an unjustice system is as old as time immemorial. We can think of many instances in history (usually recounted in big budget motion [...]