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All of a sudden it's 2016
Tony Payne21 Feb 2016A lot can change in a year. 12 months ago today, Tony Abbott was Prime Minister, Bill Shorten’s approval rating was 45%, Sepp Blatter was head of FIFA, Volkswagen had...
#cakeforeveryone (a parable)
Tony Payne10 Feb 2016I sat down this morning to write a serious post about the ethics of love, compassion and social policy. In particular, I wanted to talk about how Christian love, in...
Who wants to be moral?
Tony Payne25 Sep 2015Person A will be getting animated about some aspect of Christian living or holiness or corporate godliness, and how Christians are falling down in this area or that. And then...
What's in the bad bracket?
Tony Payne17 Jul 2015It’s a strange and befuddling world we find ourselves in. Progressive young things are now (literally) blocking their ears so as not to be assaulted by the hate speech that...
Can the conscience vote?
Tony Payne17 May 2015Surely the ‘conscience vote’ is one of the most disconcerting phenomena in the generally disconcerting panorama that is our federal politics. Only rarely, and apparently only on certain kinds of...
Inviting Muslim friends to read a Gospel
Tony Payne10 Apr 2015At our recent CCL event on ‘Can we talk about Islam?’, I suggested that one fruitful way to talk with our Muslim friends was simply to invite them to read...