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Ethos

Phone: +61 3 9037 6420

Address: 60-62 Duerdin St 3168

Website: http://www.ethos.org.au

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25.01.2022 The phrase 'Americas original sin is slavery' is so widely used in the United States that it is practically cliché. But what does it actually mean? CPXs Life & Faith talks to Aboriginal pastor and activist Ray Minniecon. https://www.publicchristianity.org/the-original-sin-of-ame/

24.01.2022 "There are now fears that many charities wont survive. But if they go down, a big chunk of Australias social safety net will go with them, as will large numbers of jobs." https://www.michaelwest.com.au/australian-charities-strugg/

24.01.2022 Eternity News spoke with Denise Clarke, Ethos researcher and board member, about ethical concerns raised by the Anglican, Catholic and Greek Orthodox Archbishops Christians regarding a potential COVID vaccine. https://www.eternitynews.com.au//why-are-some-christians-/

24.01.2022 Nathan Grills, member of St Jude's Church in Parkville, Vic., writes that we need to learn to live with Covid-19, suggesting a policy of elimination and waiting for a vaccine before lifting the border restrictions is like waiting for Godot. https://www.afr.com//there-s-a-sensible-way-to-get-borders

24.01.2022 In the wake of the New Zealand High Courts life sentence for Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant, Peter Corney asks: how do we respond to the daily reality of evil, individuality and collectively? www.ethos.org.au//new-zealands-tragedy-and-the-problem-of-

22.01.2022 At the Christians for Biblical Equality 2010 conference, I spoke about Fair work for the Fairer Sex, A Global Sampling of Women's Work. You can listen to my talk at https://www.cbe.org.au/compo/com_podcast//GordonPreece.mp3. See https://www.cbe.org.au/index.php/speakers for the full line-up of excellent speakers from the conference.

22.01.2022 "Face to face encounters are intimate, and we are known primarily through our faces, but in facial recognition that intimacy, that knowing, is removed." https://unherd.com//the-spiritual-transgression-of-facial/

22.01.2022 This article makes the helpful distinction between traditional conservatism and so-called 'conservative' and the so-called laissez faire economics of neo-liberalism. "Tories are not natural capitalists. Tories are farmers and country squires. Of course, they too need to pay the bills so they have nothing against making money. But, to them, capitalism is not a matter of core doctrine." https://unherd.com/2020/08/the-eden-of-tory-socialism/

21.01.2022 "Surely there is a way to acknowledge that the reaction to COVID-19 has been gendered, and to remedy that in the next 'new' normal? We shouldn't accept job losses for women like how we shouldn't accept domestic abuse; first of all we need to admit that it's happening." https://www.eurekastreet.com.au//living-in-a-gendered-pand

21.01.2022 People who live with mental illness are not marginal in our society. Nor ought they be treated so. They are a gift which, if received, will bless society. They call on us to notice, listen to them, and to respond with compassion. https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/art/mental-health-as-a-gift#

20.01.2022 Tim Keller asks how we can navigate competing visions of justice, which are often at sharp variance, and how they compare to a biblical vision of justice. He ends with a critique critical theory It's a long read but robust and worthwhile. In the next post, we will share a response to Keller by David Fitch. https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/a-biblical-critique-of-/

20.01.2022 "2020, the Year of Disruption: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and the Climate Crisis" - a conversation between Common Grace CEO Brooke Prentis and Christian ecological ethicist Dr Byron Smith. https://www.commongrace.org.au/season_of_creation_2020_podc

20.01.2022 As the world grapples with the impact of CoVid-19, the Church too has wrestled with its current practices and underlying theological framework. Guerin Tueno suggests that the pandemic is an opportunity for us to re-embrace our dual identity as alien residents, following the radical way of Christ himself and his call to agape love. http://www.ethos.org.au//social-distancing-as-theological-

19.01.2022 It’s time for a thaw in the glacial progress of women’s work wages and conditions. https://thenewdaily.com.au//2020/11/26/gender-pay-gap-sta/

19.01.2022 Megan Warner reminds us that recognising the presence of trauma in the Bible can transform the way we read it, especially by if we ourselves have suffered. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk//trauma-in-the-bible-how-scr

18.01.2022 Is the education minister right when he says that philosophy doesn't prepare students for work? Daniel Gregory argues that "Philosophy improves critical thinking skills which are relevant for any career". https://www.abc.net.au//the-critical-cost-of-cutt/12518890

17.01.2022 Are Christians turning off marriage? https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71186/

17.01.2022 Nicholas Gruen writes that "the virtues provide us with windows onto the reality of own souls and those of others, as well as onto the reality of our own agency in shaping those souls and their destiny." https://www.abc.net.au//altruism-economics-and-th/12605938

17.01.2022 A Victorian doctor writes that the biggest threat posed by the coronavirus may not be its virulence, but rather the way it slowly erodes what it means to be human. https://www.nytimes.com//austr/melbourne-covid-doctor.html

17.01.2022 What does the latest lockdown in Victoria say about our conception of human life and society? Yarkov Halik suggests that, apart from being a valid medical response to the virus, the lockdown also "reflects a regulatory philosophy of government and presupposes a biological conception of the human being as a self-preserving living animal - a far cry from the Monotheist vision of humanity". This raises the question: what's the alternative? www.ethos.org.au//life-biology-and-the-politics-of-lockdown

16.01.2022 Do Erdogan's restoration of Hagia Sofia to a Mosque and Modi's restoration of a Hindu temple in Ayodhya mark the decline of western secularism and the rise of a multi-polar world? https://unherd.com/2020/08/the-end-of-secularism-is-nigh/

16.01.2022 Ethos Director Gordon Preece will lead a presentation on the writings and philosophy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for a webinar by the Australian Psychological Society on Thursday 1st October at 7-9pm. Cost: $15/$25. https://www.psychology.org.au/Event/21777

15.01.2022 Simon Smart talks to Justine Toh, Devi Abraham and Natalie Ray about the struggles facing working mothers during COVID-19, and why society should value the practice of "care". https://www.publicchristianity.org/care-in-a-time-of-covid/

15.01.2022 What can the Hebrew Bible can teach Americans about reckoning with the fallenness of our nation's founders? https://divinity.uchicago.edu//imagining-history-without-h

14.01.2022 Original sin "doesnt just describe personal failure, but the disordering of all human relationships. Structural injustice that disadvantages particular people groups is part of that picture." https://www.abc.net.au//original-sins-and-racial-/12509196

13.01.2022 David Fitch responds to Tim Keller's article, A Biblical Critique of Social Justice and Critical Theory - see our previous post. Fitch suggests that Keller asks the question about how we should live and work for justice in the world, but doesn't provide a clear answer. https://www.christianitytoday.com//tim-keller-david-fitch-

13.01.2022 A vulnerable piece by Melbourne-based Muriel Porter on the impact of her husband's alzheimer's. "With my caring role all consuming, there was little time for reflection at any depth. In the background, I was aware though of an enduring sadness sadness at all he was losing, and all I was losing." https://www.abc.net.au//aged-care-living-with-unm/12570328

13.01.2022 Kurti argues that our state and territory leaders "have stoked fear and uncertainty" and are "threatening the national identity of the country". What do you think? https://www.cis.org.au//leaders-stoke-fear-and-uncertainty/

12.01.2022 Second of two articles on France's secularism and response to Islamist terrorism. Fethi Mansouri and Greg Barton write that "repressive secularism" risks alienating potential allies within islam. https://www.abc.net.au//aggressive-secularism-is-/12887812

12.01.2022 What if you could experience God's presence in the midst of your ordinary, everyday work? Guests Denise Daniels and Shannon Vandewarker are the authors of Working in the Presence of God: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Work. (32 minutes) https://www.theologyofwork.org//episode-7-experiencing-god

12.01.2022 Lyn McCredden, who has written for our upcoming Summer issue on Zadok on surveillance capitalism, looks at what Nick Cave's letters to fans following the death of his son say about suffering, mercy and meaning-making. https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-transcendent-rage-

11.01.2022 John Kidson asks what our role is as 'future leader-shapers'. And what should be education's aim? Surely we must go beyond giving hope of likely post-Covid employment after graduating. www.ethos.org.au/online-resources/Blog/20-20-vision

11.01.2022 Toxic positivity - the belief that 'being positive' is the best and only way to live - is nothing new. But, asks Cheryl McGrath, what happens when it gets confused with Christian hope? http://www.ethos.org.au//toxic-positivity-and-christian-ho

10.01.2022 Barbara Deutschmann reviews Amanda Benckhuysen's The Gospel According to Eve, which traces the reading of the Adam and Eve story throughout history but also the way courageous women have found in the story the grounds for their empowerment and their shared divine image. www.ethos.org.au/online-resources/Engage-Mail

09.01.2022 Puzzled about cultural Marxism? This short essay and academic number crunching provides some clarity. https://theconversation.com/is-cultural-marxism-really-taki

09.01.2022 Are aging women copping it from all sides in an ageist and sexist Australia? https://www.theguardian.com//the-outlook-for-older-women-i

08.01.2022 For Jason Goroncy, the parable of the father and his two broken sons in Luke 15 reminds us of the possibility of renewed, healed and reconstituted relationships and the promise that one’s judgement about one’s self is not the last word spoken over one’s life. www.ethos.org.au//spiritual-rhythms-repentance-and-confess

08.01.2022 First of two articles on France's secularism and response to Islamist terrorism. Here, Paul Marshall believes that President Macron is "generally to be commended" for the way he has defended the country's freedoms. https://www.abc.net.au//emmanuel-macron-is-right-/12906566

07.01.2022 A helpful perspective on this vexed issue.

05.01.2022 How our environmental scientists have become part of Scomos quiet people. http://theconversation.com/research-reveals-shocking-detail

05.01.2022 It is regrettable that many modern vaccines have been developed from cells taken from aborted foetuses, but being unknowingly vaccinated did not involve, and does not involve, a person in condoning abortion. https://www.abc.net.au//christianity-and-the-mora/12605762

04.01.2022 "Lewis frames the atom bomb as a revelation, an apocalypse, that disclosed how fragile the world has always been.... A pandemic strikes at the heart of our illusory security in a way that even an atom bomb cannot." https://www.christianitytoday.com//on-living-in-pandemic-a

04.01.2022 A new global network, the Christian Network to End Domestic Abuse (CNEDA), has produced a booklet, A Biblical View of Relationships to End Domestic Abuse, to equip churches and any Christian organisation spiritually as well as practically to show communities that God transforms lives. https://worldea.org//the-christian-network-to-end-domesti/

01.01.2022 Kumi Taguchi's father lived through WW2, and later migrated to Australia to enjoy freedom in a new country. Kumi says she's grateful that he's not alive to experience the restrictions of brought about by another war: the fight against Covid-19. "Freedom is what my dad came to this country for: freedom from war and expectation, freedom to live a life he wanted to live. He survived one war. He did not need to prove that he could survive another." https://www.abc.net.au//kumi-taguchi-nagasaki-hir/12529238