A Genuinely Theological Church on Love, Rinse, Repeat

Liam Miller interviewed Geoff Thompson about his new book, A Genuinely Theological Church: Ministry, Theology, and the Uniting Church. We dive into his robust and dynamic definition of theology (looking especially at the role of imagination in theology, and how theology is marked by puzzling proclamations, unexpected tangents and strangeness), we discuss the novel and…

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Fr Aguiyi on ABC Radio

Fr Aguiyi is author of A Contemporary Missionary: Reflections of a Nigerian Priest working in a suburban Australian Church. Click the player button below to listen to Fr Aguiyi on ABC Radio National’s Good Friday special, first broadcast 6 April 2018.

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Dr Paul Taylor on the New Catholic Worship Book

Dr Paul Taylor, Executive Secretary of the Bishops Commission for Liturgy, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) offers an appreciation of the history and content of the new Catholic hymnal for Australia. Catholic Worship Book II —A new liturgical music resource for Catholic Parishes and Communities in Australia. Read here.

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Most controversial

In the latest Melbourne Anglican, Mark Brolly describes Muriel Porter’s book The New Scapegoats as her most controversial yet. Find out more about the book here.

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Human Trafficking review

Crosslight magazine featured a review of the book Human Trafficking, the Bible and the Church. Mark Zirnsak says the book ‘provides a fascinating history of the emergence of opposition to slavery’. You can read the review here in Crosslight online.

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Sydney Anglicans for Melbourne Anglicans

Phenomenal Sydney is reviewed in the latest edition of The Melbourne Anglican. Alan Nichols says the book ‘can be seen as a sympathetic defence of Sydney’s archbishops.’ You can find out more about the book here.

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Muriel Porter in Conversation

‘In a frantic effort to restore the church’s damaged reputation by demonstrating it is “tough on (sexual) crime”, it has created another group of scapegoats – its own clergy.’ Muriel Porter talks about clergy as scapegoats and her new book on the Conversation here.

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Faith without fear

In The Melbourne Anglican Mark Lindsay says of Keith Mascord’s new book Faith Without Fear, “Mascord prizes open some of the most treasured, and yet at the same time contested, assumptions of conservative Christianity… [Faith Without Fear] provides a ray of hope to those whose own, or whose families’, lives and faith have been shattered…

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